Next Two ‘Mission: Impossible’ Movies Delayed Until 2023, 2024

Next Two ‘Mission: Impossible’ Movies Delayed Until 2023, 2024
Actor Tom Cruise on the set of "Mission Impossible 7" while filming in Rome, Italy, on Oct. 6, 2020. Yara Nardi/Reuters
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LOS ANGELES—The seventh and eighth movies in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise starring Tom Cruise have been delayed until 2023 and 2024 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, producers Paramount Pictures and Skydance said in a statement on Friday.

“Mission: Impossible 7” had been scheduled to debut in movie theaters in September 2022, followed by “Mission: Impossible 8” in July 2023.