MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 7 Director Chris McQuarrie Officially Announces Filming Restart With A Jaw-Dropping Tease

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 7 Director Chris McQuarrie Officially Announces Filming Restart With A Jaw-Dropping Tease

Light the fuse because it looks like cameras are officially rolling again on Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible 7 and director Chris McQuarrie has just shared a jaw-dropping tease to announce the news.

By RohanPatel - Sep 06, 2020 10:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Mission: Impossible
Source: Christopher McQuarrie

Following an extended pandemic-fueled production shut down, cameras are finally rolling on Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible 7 and along with the announcement comes a jaw-dropping photo from director Chris McQuarrie, showcasing one of the film's stunning shooting locations and possibly teasing one of the many stunts Ethan Hunt (Cruise) will attempt to pull off come November 2021. 

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Paramount was forced to abruptly halt pre-production on the film's Italy shoot back in November, sending crew members back home to their respective countries, but now, after weeks of quarantining and ensuring the proper safety measures have been installed, it looks like Cruise and company can finally start shooting, with their production schedule expected to last through May.

McQuarrie labels his post "Day 1," marking the official start of principal photography, but prior to this, Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell did film - or, at least, rehearse - parts of the sequel's high-octance opening sequence at a test track in Surrey, England back in March

Action... #MI7 Day 1

A post shared by Christopher McQuarrie (@christophermcquarrie) on

Mission: Impossible 7 & 8 are headlined by Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick) as IMF ace Ethan Hunt, as well as fellow returning stars Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible - Fallout) as Ilsa Faust, Simon Pegg (Mission: Impossible - Fallout) as Benji Dunn, Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible - Fallout) as Luther Stickell, and Vanessa Kirby (Mission: Impossible - Fallout) as the White Widow. Newcomers to the storied action franchise include Hayley Atwell (Avengers: Endgame), Pom Klementieff (Avengers: Endgame), Shea Whigham (Joker) and Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), who is rumored to be playing the villain. Henry Czerny (Sharp Objects) has also been confirmed to reprise his role as Eugene Kittridge from the first film.

There isn't much information regarding who else will make up Ethan Hunt's team for his seventh and eighth adventures, but fans still holding out hope that some combination of Jeremy Renner (William Brandt), Angela Bassett (Erica Sloane), Paula Patton (Jane Carter) and/or Maggie Q (Zhen Lei) will also return. There have also been rumblings that the likes of Henry Cavill (August Walker) and Alec Baldwin (Alan Hunley) may also be back in some capacity as McQuarrie recently teased, "Any character, dead or alive, is fair game to return."

Both sequels are expected to film back-to-back, with Mission: Impossible 7 set to light the fuse in theaters on November 19, 2021, while its sequel, Mission: Impossible 8, will open the following fall on November 4, 2022. 

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MasterMix
MasterMix - 9/6/2020, 10:32 AM
A franchise that ages like fine wine.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 9/6/2020, 10:32 AM
Hasn’t the filming been gettin protested lately?
tmp3
tmp3 - 9/6/2020, 10:36 AM
@BlackBeltJones - There was controversy with a historic bridge in Poland that there was contention to blow up for the film. Apparently the govt. of Poland contacted them about it, since it was an unstable bridge that needed to be demolished either way

The “Mission: Impossible” production agreed only “to destroy the already unsafe portions of the bridge that needed to be rebuilt, and not the original stone pilings.” McQuarrie adds, “We also had plans to offset any damage the very necessary demolition of the bridge might cause…The people we spoke to were excited by the prospect of our bringing a large film production to Poland and the resources it would inject into the local economy. They were also delighted that we’d be making way for a new bridge that might otherwise not be rebuilt, and might lead the government to revitalize the railroad line.”



https://www.indiewire.com/2020/08/christopher-mcquarrie-mission-impossible-7-bridge-controversy-1234578443/
tmp3
tmp3 - 9/6/2020, 10:33 AM
Fallout was a masterpiece of action cinema. Can't wait to see what McQ and the Cruiser have planned
kylo0607
kylo0607 - 9/6/2020, 10:46 AM
@tmp3 - I agree.

Fallout really felt special and I think it might be the best M:I film in the series. It had probably the best action in the entire series.
PunGuy
PunGuy - 9/6/2020, 10:44 AM
This is the proper use of jaw-dropping. Take note, Wilding.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 9/6/2020, 10:49 AM
Tom Cruise is going to jump Springfield Gorge on a skateboard?!
Whaley87
Whaley87 - 9/6/2020, 1:33 PM
@Reeds2Much -
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 9/6/2020, 10:54 AM
That shit is so insane. The ramp just disappears into the sky lol.
Moriakum
Moriakum - 9/6/2020, 11:00 AM
Tom Cruise is gonna jump out of that shit, isn't he?
AnungUnRama
AnungUnRama - 9/6/2020, 11:01 AM
"Any character, dead or alive, is fair game to return."

So: BRING BACK JIM PHELPS AND GIVE HIM REDEMTION!

I love this franchise but it still bothers me what they did to the character of Jim Phelps in the first movie. That heel turn is why Peter Graves turned down the opportunity to reprise his most iconic role in that movie and they had to recast that character with John Voight.

I would have preferred if they had made Voight's character an original character for the movie, instead of having a disrespectful throwaway connection to the TV serieses which (the connection) no one remebers anyway.

So if they are heading towards ending the movie series and by that the franchise and they are planning on bringing back "dead" characters, bring back Jim.

Retcon his deeds in MI1 as his plan to on the one hand get that list instead of the real bad guys and on the other hand find a worthy successor to go into retirement.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 9/6/2020, 11:29 AM
And again I'm instantly hyped for this. M:I is truly one of those franchises I nowadays would immediately book tickets for, even if I haven't seen anything of it.

And after seeing Tenet and The Hunt for Red October (which I think is real solid) recently, I kinda want a Nolan spy movie set in 80s with Cruise as the lead.
geekarchitect
geekarchitect - 9/6/2020, 12:01 PM
Is Renner coming back for these sequels?
marvel72
marvel72 - 9/6/2020, 1:53 PM
Mission Impossible 4,5 and 6 are Fantastic action movies.

Bring on 7 and 8


SwampThing
SwampThing - 9/6/2020, 2:28 PM
I enjoyed MI: Fallout more than most superhero movies of the last five years.
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