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‘Mission: Impossible 8′ breaks another record during filming
The film is scheduled for a May 2025 release date and is already one of the most expensive productions in history with filming still to be completed.
The eighth installment of the long-running Tom Cruise spy franchise is going through problems. In addition to the numerous delays that ‘Mission Impossible 8′ has suffered over the years due to the pandemic and the actors and script writers strike, now the production is seeing the budget spiral with reports suggesting that over 300 million dollars have been spent to date.
A widely reported problem with a malfunctioning submarine impacted on production with the $25m submarine crucial to the film’s plot is currently unusable.
The movie has been scheduled for a May 2025 release and would need to generate 600 million dollars at the box office to turn a profit with its predecessor Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One costing 291 million dollars to produce and the film ended up generating 567 million dollars with many question its profitability.
2018′s ‘Mission Impossible: Fallout’ is currently the most most successful movie of the the saga to date which generated 791 million dollars at the box office.
With the eighth instalment still at the unfinished stage, Cruise’s latest offering runs the risk of being linked with other follow-up blockbusters that saw production costs spiral out of control and generate more notoriety for their inflated budget rather than the movie in question. Will Mission: Impossible 8 be held in the same conversations along with the likes of final ‘Avengers’ films, the third and fourth installment of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ or ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’.