This film is cursed.
‘Mission: Impossible 8’ restarted production in March, after last year’s strikes halted shooting on the movie in July. There’s been a lot of delays with this one, and bad luck has struck again on the film.
The film has reportedly been delayed again due to a malfunction while filming with a $25 million submarine. It has been revealed that the gimbal, which is used to lower the 120ft-high structure, jammed under its weight and had to be repaired. Due to this, filming has been pushed back weeks and causing the costs of the film to dramatically increase. The current budget for this film is said to be nearing $400M.
Last year, Christopher McQuarrie had stated that, before the strikes, around 40% of the movie was shot, and that they were 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.
We hope he comes out of this one healthy and ready to go for the auteur phase of his career — the next Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu film awaits him.