Tom Cruise's next 'Mission: Impossible' hits the box office calendar in 2024. The eighth installment in the spy action franchise looks set to drop from the second half of its previous title 'Deadly Payback Part Two', with a new title expected to be announced later, The Hollywood Reporter informed.
Paramount and Skydance have pushed the film to May 23, 2025 from its previous date of June 28, 2024. The film is halting production so star Cruise and the cast can promote "Dead Reckoning, Part 1." A SAG-AFTRA strike then took place in mid-July, meaning the cast could not return to work on the Christopher McQuarrie-directed film.
If the strike is not resolved in the next few weeks, dozens more films are likely to walk away next year.
"Mission: Impossible 8" follows the uneven box office of "Deadly Payback: Part 1", which was released in July and collected $567.5 million worldwide.
The film stars Cruise as IMF agent Ethan Hunt, and among the cast expected to return are Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames and Vanessa Kirby. The Mission franchise dates back to the original 1996 film based on the 1960s TV series. The film is notable for being shot on location around the world and for having at least one of Cruise's signature stunts, which often became a central theme of his marketing campaign.
The Eighth Mission is being shot with Imax cameras and will be in Imax theaters for a full three weeks. This happens after the seventh part quickly lost its Imax screens because of Oppenheimer./BGNES
