Mission Impossible 8: Bad news for those waiting for Tom Cruise’s next stunts

Is this really a surprise? When Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning – Part 1 began last June, Tom Cruise announced that only 40% of the next episode was canned before the writers’ strike.

Although the movement ended on September 27, the actors are still mobilized since July 14, preventing the resumption of shooting.

And what we suspected is now official: Mission Impossible 8 has been delayed. So far scheduled for June 28, 2024 in the United States (26th in France, respectively), it will finally be visible from May 23, 2025.

There’s no doubt that two days earlier in France, the slot that brought luck to Tom Cruise and Paramount, as it was Top Gun: Maverick, which brought in nearly $1.5 billion worldwide.

For the star, who has played Ethan Hunt since 1996, it’s just one more hurdle. The original plan was to make two films back to back. But Covid and theater closures got involved, leading to several postponements of new episodes of the saga.

Hitting theaters worldwide in July, Mission Impossible 7 paid the price for Barbie and Oppenheimer’s dominance at the global box office, earning just $567.5 million, making it the fourth-biggest hit in the franchise, excluding inflation.

Billed as the final episode, even if Christopher McQuarrie suggests he has more ideas, will Mission Impossible 8 remedy the situation and become the first opus to cross the billion dollar milestone? Answer in 2025. Subject to further change.