Los Angeles: Hollywood star Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8 won’t be shot back-to-back as per studio Paramount Pictures’ original plan.
Cruise recently wrapped up the seventh installment in the long-running action franchise, after resuming filming last September amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The action star was supposes to start the eighth edition soon after, but production had to be postponed due to a change in the release calendar of his other films.
According to online Hollywood magazine Deadline, Cruise will promote Top Gun: Maverick ahead of the film’s planned release on July 2.
Maverick, the sequel to the actor’s 1986 blockbuster Top Gun, will see Cruise reprise his role of US naval aviator Pete Mitchell, whose call sign is Maverick, along with returning star Val Kilmer, and new entrants Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, and Jon Hamm.
Cruise will return to the sets of Mission: Impossible 8 after Maverick‘s promotions are through.
Over the weekend, Christopher McQuarrie, director of both the Mission: Impossible movies, debunked reports claiming that the seventh film in the franchise had been disrupted by pandemic-related travel issues.
In an Instagram post, the filmmaker said the team has completed the West Asia schedule and will be returning to London to make a few “finishing touches” to the film.
Mission: Impossible 7 is scheduled to bow out on November 19 this year, while the sequel is slated for a November 4, 2022 release.