By Christopher McQuarrie’s eighth “Mission: Impossible” film has been hit by bad luck again with the reasoning this time due to, of all things, submarine malfunction.
The Daily Mail reports that the production has been using a $25 million submarine for scenes, but the gimbal used to lower it in water jammed under its weight and is in need of weeks of repair.
This has led to the shoot, which already saw a nine-month delay due to the strikes and only just began filming again in March, pushed back further and sending the rising costs of the film even higher.
World of Reel is reporting that the film’s current budget is said to be nearing $400 million though that certainly hasn’t been confirmed in any way.
If true, it’s not a good number after Paramount reportedly lost close to $100 million on the seventh film when it underperformed at the box-office last summer.
Prior to the strikes, McQuarrie stated that around 40% of the new and likely final ‘Mission’ movie was shot including its big set pieces in Africa and the Arctic.
Much of the production has filmed in the UK at Longcross Studios, but the film’s biggest action sequence has yet to be shot.
Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Holt McCallany, Nick Offerman, Janet McTeer, Hannah Waddingham and Lucy Tulugarjuk co-star in the new entry which is currently slated for May 2025.
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