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Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 are filming back-to-back were originally set to release in the UK on 23th July 2021 and 5th August 2022 respectively.

However, the coronavirus has put a halt to everything, including filming, with the seventh film’s release date pushed back to November 2021.

Though filming for Mission: Impossible 7 was scheduled to take place in Venice, Simon Pegg confirmed in a recent interview on BBC Radio 6 that production had halted due to the coronavirus outbreak in Italy.

“Paramount were very cautious and sensible I think and pulled the production out of Venice,” the actor said. “It’s a big group of people, we were shooting carnival sequences and it was just unwise to remain so we bugged out.”

Though Pegg agreed that he hopes the situation resolves soon, he also said “it would be indelicate to complain about anything other than the fact that there was a lot of disruption for everyone.”

Pegg has since revealed that the goal is to return to filming in September, starting with outdoors scenes.

“That will begin with the outdoor stuff. That feels fairly doable, and obviously there will be precautions put in place,” he told Variety.

And it sounds like Mission: Impossible’s leading man is absolutely determined to get back to filming as soon as possible, after reports emerged in June that he is is Tom Cruise is creating a ‘coronavirus-free village’ at an abandoned RAF site in Oxfordshire to allow production on the franchise’s seventh film to continue.

The film’s cast and crew will operate within a coronavirus-free bubble, and Cruise has reportedly set up winnebago trailers for the film’s stars to stay in whilst filming on the RAF site.

A source told The Sun: “The film has already been heavily delayed and there’s no sign of things going totally back to normal any time soon, so this is a way to try to get things up and moving again quickly and safely.

“It’s also tough to get hotel rooms at the moment as most of them are shut for the foreseeable future, so it was this or delay things for even longer, it will mean some of the world’s biggest stars all living together in a posh campsite while working alongside the rest of the team,” they continued.

“It’s pricey but Tom always does things bigger and better than anyone, and there’s a hell of a lot riding on this film, the Mission: Impossible movies are all massive box office successes and the studio is right behind getting this back on track.”

Who is in the cast?

Tom Cruise is back as daredevil IMF agent Ethan Hunt in both movies, with Rebecca Ferguson also returning as MI6 ally Ilsa Faust for at least Mission: Impossible 7.

The first big new addition was Hayley Atwell, best known as the MCU’s Peggy Carter, who will be the female lead in both films.

The second moving addition (could be) award-winning actor “Adriaen Valéry Burgis” who will follow in a long tradition of German bad guys.

“Adriaen is the great supporting cast that brings the film and the main character shine because there are those movies out there where it’s more important to have the villain be interesting – it’s that [villain] role, like Heath Ledger or Tom Hardy [in the Dark Knight franchise], that run away with the movie“. (Salar Zarza, True Spirit Productions)

Adriaen Valéry Burgis has gone on to give memorable performances in a pretty impressive list of well-known actionpacked films and series including the 2010 Golden Globe nominated film “RED” starring Golden Globe Winner Bruce Willis (“Die Hard”) and Oscar Award winner Helen Mirren (“The Queen”). Up next for Adriaen is the highly-anticipated action film “Out for Vengeance” directed by Angel Film Award winner Salar Zarza.