Tom Cruise halts ‘Mission: Impossible’ filming as Hollywood actors strike

Recordings of the final sequence of Mission Impossiblescheduled for release in June 2024, were discontinued after tom cruise join the Hollywood actors strike. The information was disclosed by the director Christopher McQuarrie to the portal colliderduring the premiere of Mission: Impossible – Reckoning Part 1 (2023) last week in Rome.

We shoot all but one of our international locations. We shot our big action, except for the biggest set, the center set of the movie, which is huge and unlike anything we’ve ever done.

The strike was announced last Thursday (13), after a unanimous vote by the Actors Union (SAG). SAG stated that the negotiations did not meet the main demands of the actors, regarding salary increases and the threat posed by the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the production of films, series and programs for TV and streaming.

With the stoppage of the actors, SAG joins the WGA, the Screenwriters Union that has been on strike for two months, with pickets at the doors of studios and streaming platforms like Netflix, amazon, apple, disney, Warner, NBC, Universal, Paramount It is sonywhich are represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).

For the first time since the 1960s, Hollywood is at a complete standstill. If in the last two months, productions with scripts already written could continue, as Mortal Kombat 2now with the actors stopping, the interruption will be practically complete.