Filming Commences on ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ And It Already Looks Insane
Covid-19 hasn’t slowed Tom Cruise down much. After a delay due to the pandemic, Mission: Impossible 7’s production is in full swing. Day 1 kicked off somewhere in the mountains. From the look of a photograph posted by director Christopher McQuarrie, there is an insane stunt involving a vehicle hurtling down a makeshift ramp.
There’s someone who we must assume is Tom Cruise standing on the ramp. It’s fun to speculate exactly what stunt this will involve. No doubt it will involve some form of airborne insanity, and will aim to top the stunts he’s done in past installments. The crazy helicopter sequence he performed in Queenstown, New Zealand is pretty hard to top, especially the moment he dropped from a helicopter skid onto a bag 100 feet below.
They also have the new Bond film, No Time To Die, to contend with. No doubt Cruise will want to top anything Bond does, and the stunts in Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Bond film look pretty amazing.
Mission: Impossible 7 was originally scheduled to begin production earlier this year. Many film productions are starting and stopping as the film industry learns to live with Covid-19. MacQuarrie and Cruise plan on shooting Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 back-to-back. Not many plot details are known, though both films seem to be connected–maybe a two parter. The return of Kittridge (Henry Czeny), last seen in the first Mission: Impossible is a nice way to bookend Cruise’s films.
Barring further delays, both films are set to hit theaters on November 19, 2021 and November 4, 2022.
