"Mission: Impossible 8" Production Stoppage Not Impacted by WGA Strike

Web reports claiming that "Mission: Impossible 8" has been postponed by the WGA strike are untrue.

According to Deadline, every effort right now is going toward promoting "Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning", the first installment of a two-part storyline. 

Paramount opens the Skydance film opens July 12, and evidently, an article on director Christopher McQuarrie was misinterpreted. 

It mentioned these movies were challenged by the coronavirus pandemic and the WGA strike. That led some internet outlets to leap that the movie won’t shoot because of the latter circumstance. 

However, that isn’t the case as Tom Cruise and McQuarrie are busy promoting the movie, which has always been the plan. 

They’ve shot some of "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two", and they expect to resume later in the summer. Hopefully, the labor stalemate will be over by then. 

The seventh installment features Cruise surrounded by faces both old and new, including Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, and Frederick Schmidt.

It also features Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Frederick Schmidt, Rob Delaney, Cary Elwes, Indira Varma, and Mark Gatiss.

Newcomers to the franchise include Hayley Atwell as Grace and Esai Morales as the new chapter’s bad guy. More faces will be boarding the franchise for Dead Reckoning Part Two, including Nick Offerman and Hannah Waddingham.

"Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One" hits theaters on July 12, with "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two " arriving on June 28, 2024.