‘Mission: Impossible 8' Production Delayed, Budget Nears $400 Million

Courtesy of Empire Magazine/Paramount.

‘Mission: Impossible 8’ resumed production back in March after last year’s Hollywood strikes halted shooting in July.

The film has reportedly been delayed again due to a malfunction while filming with a $25 million submarine. It has been revealed that the gimbal, which is used to lower the 120ft-high structure, jammed under its weight and had to be repaired. Filming has been pushed back several weeks and has already resulted in an influx of production costs — with the current budget nearing $400 Million.

Director Christopher McQuarrie stated that prior to the strikes around 40% of the movie was filmed, with completed location shooting in Africa and the Arctic. He also added that the biggest and most complicated sequence of the film had yet to be shot — which we can only guess involves the submarine (especially since this was the cliffhanger of the the previous franchise instalment).

‘Dead Reckoning’ Parts 1 and 2 were to be a final send-off for Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt. However, last year Cruise mentioned that he’d continue doing the ‘Mission’ films until he can no longer physically keep up. The ‘Part’ titles are reportedly abandoned, and the follow-up to Part 1 is no longer a Part 2, and will have a new title all together.

‘Part One’ underperformed at the box-office last summer, with a poor release date on the cusp of the ‘Barbenheimer’ summer hysteria. The numbers had Paramount losing close to $100 million on the movie, with the film making $570 Million worldwide — for any movie this would be an impressive number, but it doesn’t warrant the cost of MI7s production and marketing.

‘Mission: Impossible 8’ is scheduled for May 23, 2025.