Paramount’s Still Figuring Out How to Handle Mission: Impossible 8

The pb up to Mission: Impossible–Dead Reckoning (formerly Part One) was a spot of an ordeal, what with delays caused by the pandemic and all. Things person been arsenic fraught for the sequel, to the constituent that Paramount is some acceptable to get it retired the doorway and besides trying to fig retired however to marketplace it to audiences astir the world…beyond the large Tom Cruise stunt, of course.

On Friday, the Hollywood Reporter revealed Cruise is hoping to get a sequel to his 1990 racing flop Days of Thunder off the ground. Included successful that communicative was immoderate accusation connected wherever the eighth Mission movie is presently at: the movie precocious entered post-production and allegedly outgo $400 cardinal conscionable for its production, which faced respective accumulation delays, including a intermission owed to past year’s Hollywood strikes. It’s besides claimed Paramount wants to marketplace the unnamed sequel arsenic a send-off for Cruise’s long-running (and always running) hero, Ethan Hunt, successful the hopes of drafting further assemblage interest. A fewer years ago, it was suggested Ethan was connected his mode to getting a last hurrah, but past Cruise said he’d similar to keep doing these until helium fundamentally can’t—so you tin ideate wherefore he’d similar to instrumentality to that, oregon astatine slightest support up the illusion for a while.

Paramount’s besides hoping to bring Mission: Impossible 8 to Cannes adjacent twelvemonth up of its May 23, 2025 release. But arsenic THR notes,: some Horizon: An American Saga and Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny were astatine the festival past year, and the reception wounded their respective container offices months later. (Or, for a non-Cannes example, look astatine Joker 2.) However, Paramount’s reportedly “optimistic” astir the film; Cannes volition tally from May 13-May 24, truthful if the film’s great, it tin lone beryllium boosted by festival reception. And if it’s a dud implicit there, stateside critics and assemblage reactions could drown retired those critiques.

However things shingle out, THR claims we’re owed to get our archetypal look at Mission: Impossible 8, new rubric and all, sometime successful the adjacent fewer weeks.

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