Mission: Impossible 7

Mission: Impossible 7 is an upcoming American action spy film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, and starring Tom Cruise, who reprises his role as Ethan Hunt. It is the seventh installment of the Mission Impossible film series and the third film in the series to be directed by McQuarrie, following Rogue Nation and Fallout. The cast includes Cruise, Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, and Vanessa Kirby, all of whom reprise their roles from the previous films, along with Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, and Esai Morales, who will join the franchise.

Mission: Impossible 7
Directed byChristopher McQuarrie
Produced by
Screenplay byChristopher McQuarrie
Based onMission: Impossible
by Bruce Geller
Starring
Music byLorne Balfe
CinematographyFraser Taggart
Edited byEddie Hamilton
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • November 19, 2021 (2021-11-19) (United States)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Mission: Impossible 7 is scheduled to be released on November 19, 2021, by Paramount Pictures. A direct sequel, also directed by McQuarrie, will be released on November 4, 2022.

Cast

Additionally Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, and Shea Whigham have been cast in undisclosed roles. McQuarrie described Atwell's character as a "destructive force of nature", while Atwell explained that her character's loyalties are "somewhat ambiguous" and said, "I've been living in an existential crisis since October, going 'who am I? who am I?' An actor in search of a character... There's ambiguity…the interesting thing we're exploring is her resistance to a situation she finds herself in. How she starts off, where she becomes. The journey of what she comes into and what is asked of her and potentially where she ends up."[1]

Production

Announcement and casting

It was announced by Cruise on January 14, 2019 that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films will be shot back-to-back with McQuarrie writing and directing both films for July 23, 2021 and August 5, 2022 release.[2][3] In February 2019, Ferguson confirmed her return for the seventh installment.[4][5] In September 2019, McQuarrie announced on his Instagram account that Hayley Atwell has joined the cast for the seventh film.[6] In September 2019, Pom Klementieff joined the cast for both the seventh and eighth film.[7] In December 2019, Simon Pegg confirmed his return for the film, with Shea Whigham cast for both films.[8][9]

Nicholas Hoult was cast in a role in January 2020, along with the addition of Henry Czerny, reprising his role as Eugene Kittridge for the first time since the 1996 film.[10][11] Vanessa Kirby also announced she was returning for both films.[12] In May 2020, it was reported that Esai Morales would be replacing Hoult's role as the villain in both films due to scheduling conflicts.[13]

Filming and COVID-19 shutdown

Under the workingtitle Libra,[14] filming began on February 20, 2020, in Venice, set up to last for three weeks before moving to Rome in mid-March for 40 days,[15][16] but due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, production in the country was suspended.[17] Three weeks later, filming resumed in Surrey, England.[18] On July 6, 2020, after another hiatus, the crew were given permission to resume filming in England without going through the mandatory 14-day quarantine.[19]

The following month, similar permission was granted for filming in Møre og Romsdal, Norway.[20] That same month, production had to be halted after a large fire broke out on set following a botched motorcycle stunt. The scene had taken six weeks to prepare and was "among one of the most expensive ever filmed in the U.K.;" no one was hurt in the incident.[21]

Polish railway bridge controversy
The 1908 railway bridge over Lake Pilchowickie in southern Poland.

One of the sequences in the film takes place in Alps in Switzerland, and features a bridge being blown up with a train passing over it.[22] As the Swiss government refused to authorize any explosions,[23] in December 2019, Paramount Pictures producers including McQuarrie, began looking for engineering photo objects for the movie in southern Poland,[24] with an attached Polish production company Alex Stern. For the Libra project, it was granted a PLN 5.5 million ($1.5 million) cash rebate from the Polish Film Institute.[25][26] The joint team was accompanied in deep secrecy by officers of the Polish engineering troops.[22] McQuarrie documented the visit on Instagram.[27] And eventually, Alex Stern was reported in March 2020 to choose the Jelenia Góra Valley to play Alps.[28] With the main object of interest being a 151-meter long, 1908 post-German riveted railway bridge on Lake Pilchowickie, near Jelenia Góra in Lower Silesia. Officially opened in 1912 by Wilhelm II himself, it survived World War II mostly intact,[29] and was used by trains until 2016, when the line was temporarily closed due to the bad condition of the tracks. It awaits reopening, as the bridge itself remains well preserved.[30]

Although a commissioned expertise confirmed it, praising the bridge "extremely picturesque and valuable,"[31] the producers judged on the contrary, and suggested that instead of renovating, it would be best to demolish the bridge before building a new one, once the shooting is finished.[32][33] Local authorities and museum officials were appalled by producers' wish to physically blow up or destroy the bridge, instead of using CGI effects.[26][34] Both the filmmakers and Polish authorities, including the Polish State Railways which own the bridge, denied the plans, while spreading false information that it was devastated and intended for demolition anyway.[30]

By July 2020, the already national news on blowing up the bridge sparked protests of history and railways enthusiasts, Polish and European scientists, filmmakers, and the regional Monuments Heritage Office, along with members of Polish parliament,[30][35] and The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage.[36] Activists and NGOs launched a petition to the Minister of Culture and National Heritage against the destruction.[37] And while it is being added into the Polish Registry of Objects of Cultural Heritage (as of August 2020),[34][38] the Deputy Minister confirmed plans of the administration for pushing the bridge play in the movie, with a “small section” to be demolished onset in April 2021, before revitalizing the local heritage railway line altogether.[39]

The 1910 disused bridge on Warta river, in west-central Poland.

Following the backlash,[35][40] the General Conservator of Monuments later assured however there was no question of destroying the bridge.[41] And after the story turned international,[42][43] McQuarrie declared, falsely, there was never a plan to blow up the bridge in the first place, although confirming that only unsafe and partially damaged portions could be destroyed, that needed to be rebuilt anyway, adding: "To open up the area to tourism, the bridge needed to go." He went on suggesting he did not abandon plans of blowing up a bridge, with the help of Poles.[44] Still, Paramount Pictures never pledged to cover any construction costs of a potential new bridge over Lake Pilchowickie, estimated at around PLN 100 million ($26.7 million), nor the renovation of the historic one, at around PLN 6 million ($1.5 million).[30]

In August 2020, a foundation that deals with protection of monuments notified the Prosecutor's Office about a PLN 7 million ($1.9 million) bribe that the Alex Stern president was to offer in return for mediation for a decision favorable to filmmakers regarding the Lake Pilchowickie bridge.[45] For September 2020, Tom Cruise is set up to visit the site.[39] But in the meantime, the Polish State Railways have reportedly offered filmmakers another historic bridge to be blown up, a disused 1910 steel 245-meter bridge over Warta, in Stobnica, in west-central Poland.[46]

Release

Mission: Impossible 7 is scheduled to be released on November 19, 2021.[47] It was originally set for release on July 23, 2021,[48] but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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