Ruined shooting schedule, internal troubles in the filming team, a lost screen war with Oppenheimer… And now, the new Mission: Impossible can’t continue shooting.
The fuse on Tom Cruise has been very short lately as his favorite child, the Mission: Impossible franchise, is taking hit after hit.
It all began with terrible timings for the new entries when MI7 was taking too long in post-production and the filming of MI8 couldn’t start, and since then, nothing’s been going in Tom Cruise’s favor.
The actor’s frustration led to some internal struggles within his team, and the crew member started to be scared of the man, “tip-toeing” around him.
Things didn’t get better whatsoever after Cruise learned that almost all the mid-summer screens were booked by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie.
As Cruise undertook the already-lost war against Nolan and Gerwig, he’s not been himself.
Desperately driving around and trying to convince cinemas to ditch their already-established plans for Oppenheimer and Barbie and even calling the directors to demand they reschedule their movies’ releases has not gone easy on his state.
Now, Mission: Impossible took another huge blow; not the upcoming seventh part, but the next entry, MI8.
Due to the WGA’s strike, the movie, that’s reportedly already 40% done, had to stop the production process entirely. The production troubles led to a massive halt, and there’s no confidence when it will be able to continue.
We can’t possibly imagine what’s going on with Tom Cruise himself these days: he’s already been on a rage train during the last few weeks, and the new indefinite production delays must have hit him really hard.
Christopher McQuarrie, the director and writer of Mission: Impossible, made a very frustrated statement, though.
“It’s unrelenting. Behind each tsunami is another tsunami. We live in a state of 24-hour tsunami awareness. That’s just what we do,” McQuarrie commented.
At this point, we can only wish everyone involved with Mission: Impossible production to stay as strong and mentally healthy as possible under these circumstances.
No one knows how long the WGA strike will keep going, after all.
Source: Slash Film
