Eighth ‘Mission: Impossible’ Film Delayed Until 2025 Due To Actors’ Strike

Paramount and Skydance have moved the release date of the eighth Mission: Impossible movie, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, from June 28, 2024, to May 23, 2025.

Production of the film stopped earlier this year so that the franchise’s star, Tom Cruise, as well as the rest of the seventh film’s cast, could promote McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which was released on July 12, 2023.

Then the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) strike began on July 14, and the cast of the upcoming film was unable to continue production.

Its predecessor grossed $172.1 million domestically and $567.5 million worldwide.

Since this was against a budget of $291 million, the film ended up underperforming at the box office despite being praised by both critics and audiences. The budget for the next film has not been announced yet.

Taking this film’s original release date is Michael Sarnoski‘s A Quiet Place: Day One, the third film in the A Quiet Place franchise. This film was originally intended to be released on March 8, 2024.

In addition to these two films, Paramount has moved up the release date of John Krasinski‘s IF, an acronym for Imaginary Friends, from May 24, 2024, to May 17, 2024.

The studio has also delayed the fourth SpongeBob SquarePants movie, directed by Derek Drymon, from May 23, 2025, to December 19, 2025.

The seventh Mission: Impossible film was pulled from IMAX theaters after only a week and was replaced by Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer, which was released on July 21.

Despite this, the next film will be shot by IMAX cameras, and it will be shown in IMAX theaters for three weeks.

The guild’s union has marked the 100th day of their strike. They tweeted an image stating, “Dear fellow members: As we mark the 100th day of our strike, we are pleased to confirm the company executives have asked us to return to the table. Official Negotiations will resume on Tuesday, October 24th.”

Four CEOs will return to the guild’s headquarters on October 24 with an offer that they hope might end the impasse in the strike.

One of the attending CEOs will be Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, who called the guild’s top negotiator, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, on October 21 to invite the guild back for negotiations.