Original plans called for Mission: Impossible 8 to be shot back-to-back with Dead Reckoning - Part 1; however, the eighth instalment was also originally titled Dead Reckoning - Part 2 before the first half underperformed at the box office.
The sequel has since suffered a series of setbacks. Shooting began in March 2022 and was halted last July as a result of the SAG-AFTRA strike. Work resumed this March and, right now, the idea is for Mission: Impossible 8 to be released next May.
However, according to a new report from The Mirror, the movie has been hit by further delays courtesy of...a malfunction with a $23 million submarine.
According to the site, "Sources say the gimbal, which is used to lower the 120ft-high structure, jammed under its weight and had to be repaired. This has put filming back weeks and bumped up costs. A source said: 'They’re not happy as it puts production behind, which costs a lot of money per day.'"
"Production hit problems once they started adding fittings and stairwells to the empty sub shell and realised the contraption holding it could not tolerate the weight," the report adds. "Insiders say the repairs are ongoing."
There have already been reports about the budgets for both Dead Reckoning and the untitled eighth movie running out of control, so we're sure Paramount Pictures won't be happy about this. In fact, Tom Cruise is thought to have clashed with the studio on so many occasions that he's moving on from Paramount after spending the past 31 years of his career there (now, he's Warner Bros.-bound).
Various gossip sites are also running reports that Cruise is getting majorly stressed while attempting to get this next movie across the finish line.
In Mission: Impossible 8, Cruise will reprise his role as Ethan Hunt alongside returning stars Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Hayley Atwell, Shea Whigham, and Pom Klementieff.
New additions to the franchise include Janet McTeer, Hannah Waddingham, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Katy O'Brian, and Tramell Tillman.
Waddingham recently spoke out in defence of Cruise when she said, "I have to say, I have a real problem with anybody that goes at [Tom Cruise] now. Having met him and having spent five days intensely. He is without doubt one of the loveliest and encouraging, positive and inspiring human beings I have ever met. Isn’t he gorgeous? I have no time for anyone saying anything about him."
Christopher McQuarrie directs Mission: Impossible 8 ahead of its planned May 23, 2025 release.