Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 will be Tom Cruises last as Ethan Hunt

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Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:00:07 +0000

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Insiders working on Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 suggest that they'll be Tom Cruises last films in the franchise.

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Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 will be the last in the franchise for leading man Tom Cruise, according to insiders on the upcoming projects.

Variety reports that next two films in the long-running series are being planned as a send-off for Cruises Ethan Hunt character and a culmination of the six previous Mission films.

Cruise first rappelled into action as Hunt in 1996 and last appeared in 2018s Mission: Impossible Fallout. The franchise, which is known for upping the ante with each new instalment, has grossed over $3.5 billion at the worldwide box office in its 25-year history.

But the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has heavily impacted progress on the next two and possibly final movies in the series. In January, Paramount
announced that it was delaying the release of Mission: Impossible 7 from September 2022 until July 14, 2023, which in turn pushed the ETA of Mission: Impossible 8 to June 28, 2024.

Filming on the former has now wrapped at the eye-watering cost of $290 million though Cruise reportedly wants to have finished making the eighth film before the seventh is released, according to an insider cited in
Varietys report.

Mission: Impossible 7 will end with a cliff-hanger, so it figures that Cruise and long-time franchise director Christopher McQuarrie want to ensure both projects definitely see the light of day and, given the tumultuous
production history surrounding the two movies, you cant blame them.

Mission: Impossible 7 was scheduled to begin shooting in Venice in February 2020, but production was halted and resumed seven (seven!) different times as Covid-19 restrictions in Italy changed with every passing month.

Plans were also in place to shoot Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 concurrently where possible, though the idea was abandoned in light of pandemic-induced obstacles.

The eighth instalment is, at long last, about to go into production in South Africa, Variety reports. Bigger and better (Image credit: Paramount )

So, what can fans expect from the final two movies (or so were led to
believe) in Tom Cruises tenure as Mission: Impossibles resident daredevil?

After the star scaled Dubais Burj Khalifa without a harness in Ghost
Protocol, clung to the outside of an airplane in Rogue Nation, and jumped out the back of one at 25,000 feet in Fallout, its hard to imagine just how
Cruise and his crew might raise the stakes yet again.

Weve got an idea of one of the stunts well see in Mission: Impossible 7, at least. In a 2021 interview with Deadline , Cruise hinted at a sequence in which the actor drives a motorcycle off a cliff-edge in Norway.

This is far and away the most dangerous thing Ive attempted, Cruise admitted, adding that the stunt is something hes wanted to do since [he] was a little kid.

If it's more dangerous than holding your breath underwater for six-and-a-half minutes, as Cruise did for 2015's Rogue Nation, Mission: Impossible fans are in for a treat come next summer. These are the biggest new movies coming in 2022



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