Like many films during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mission: Impossible 7 experienced a stop in production earlier in the year, but as states prepare to open up, production of the film is ready to get back to work. Tommy Gormley told BBC Radio 4’s Today (first reported by Deadline) that he was “convinced” they could get back to work again within the next 3 months and still have things wrapped by May of 2021, which would put things starting back up in September. Gormley stated,
“We hope to start shooting again in September. We were days from shooting in Venice — we were right at the epicenter when it all kicked off — so we had to shut down in Venice where we were four or five days from shooting,”
“We hope to restart in September, we hope to visit all the countries we planned to and look to do a big chunk of it back in the UK on the backlot and in the studio, so September through to end April/May is our targets. We are convinced we can do this,”
“We have to get back to work for every person in the film industry, tens of thousands of us, we have to get back to work. We have to do it safely and protect our colleagues, but it is definitely possible and we’re working flat out to make it happen,”
Mission: Impossible 7 will see the return of director Christopher McQuarrie, who guided Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation and Mission: Impossible: Fallout to box office success.
