In the first installment of the popular Mission: Impossible franchise, Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIAÕs most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers… and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth. Mission: Impossible is one of the five iconic and acclaimed feature films from the Paramount Pictures library that CBS will be airing on Sunday evenings throughout the month of May. Mission: Impossible airs on Sunday, May 17 (8:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) ©Paramount All Rights Reserved
It was February 2020, and news of the coronavirus causing lockdowns around the world was running rampant. And then there was Tom Cruise, who found himself stuck in Venice as production on Mission: Impossible 7 shut down. It was just the start of the many, many delays that this movie would face.
We’re now in 2022, and the movie has been delayed yet again, along with the subsequent eighth film, according to Deadline. For now, it looks like Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 have been delayed to 2023 and 2024 respectively.
So for a movie that has been coming for quite some time, what the heck is taking so long?
Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 face delays…once again
The seventh Mission: Impossible film was supposed to release in July 2021, then in November 2021, then May 2022, then September 2022. And now, it’s been scheduled for July 14, 2023. But who knows if that will change again?
Tom Cruise has gotten accustomed to delays on his other big feature: Top Gun: Maverick has also been delayed multiple times. At this point, Cruise hasn’t had a movie in the theaters since 2018, when the last Mission: Impossible film came out. It’s wild to think there has been such a Tom Cruise-less box office these last few years, but hopefully that will change next year.
Hopefully.
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