‘Mission: Impossible 8’ has restarted shooting after last year’s strikes halted production on the movie in July. They’re currently shooting in the UK, and Cruise was spotted with longer hair — shades of ‘Mission: Impossible II’ come to mind (via The Daily Mail).
Cruise, 61, was reportedly doing a motorcycle stunt, driving at full speed on the streets of Derbyshire. We hope he comes out of this one healthy and ready to go for the auteur phase of his career — appearances in the next Iñárritu and Tarantino await him.
Last year, Christopher McQuarrie had stated that, before the strikes, around 40% of the movie was shot, and that they’re done location shooting in Africa and the Arctic. He also added that the biggest and most complicated sequence of the film had yet to be shot.
Last month, Paramount moved “Mission: Impossible 8” from its original June 2024 date to May 23, 2025. Delayed by a full year … THR added that the film was also going to be dropping its original title ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part II’ for an unannounced new one.
’Dead Reckoning — Part One’ ended on a cliffhanger. The plan was to have both films serve as a sendoff for Cruise’s Ethan Hunt. This is an ambitious undertaking and I really hope it was worth all of the time, effort and money — especially since ‘Part One’ vastly underperformed at the box-office last summer. The numbers had Paramount losing close to $100 million on the movie.
Joining Cruise in the cast will be Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales as well as new additions Holt McCallany (“Mindhunter”) as the U.S. Secretary of Defense, along with Nick Offerman, Janet McTeer, Hannah Waddingham and Lucy Tulugarjuk.