Mission: Impossible 7 release delayed to November 2021 as coronavirus crisis disrupts next year’s calendar

Eighth film in the franchise also pushed back to November 2022

The Mission: Impossible franchise has been hit by significant delays due to the coronavirus crisis.

According to Variety, Mission: Impossible 7 has been delayed to 19 November 2021.

It was originally supposed to come out on 23 July 2021.

Mission: Impossible 8 has also reportedly been pushed back to 4 November 2022, in lieu of its planned release on 5 August 2022.

This now places both films in the pre-Thanksgiving period in the US, rather than the summer.

Paramount Pictures, the franchise’s distributor, announced in February that Mission: Impossible 7 would no longer shoot in Italy as planned due to the pandemic.

The film was supposed to film in Venice, Italy for three weeks as part of the first leg of what Paramount called an “extensive production”.

The most recent instalment in the franchise, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, came out in July 2018.

Mission: Impossible isn’t the only Tom-Cruise-led project to be disrupted by the coronavirus crisis lately.

The released of Top Gun: Maverick, a sequel to the 1986 classic, has been pushed from 24 June to 23 December.