Mission accomplished!
After several setbacks, discouraging delays, production problems and government shutdowns due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, director Christopher McQuarrie finished filming Mission: Impossible 7 after more than a year.
And on Saturday, McQuarrie took to Instagram to mark the milestone with a black-and-white photo of himself and protagonist Tom Cruise.
This is a wrapper! Director Christopher McQuarrie announced the filming of Mission: Impossible 7 with an Instagram message from himself and star Tom Cruise on Saturday, September 11; McQuarrie, 53, and Cruise, 59, appear together on a crashed train
The triumphant couple could be seen sitting on top of a crashed train on set MI7.
“All you need are good people,” McQuarrie, 53, began, before turning his attention and gratitude to those who made it all possible.
“For our indomitable, unstoppable and relentless cast and crew: even in the best of circumstances, it should have been impossible,” he continued.
“Even after seeing it, we can’t believe what you’ve achieved.”
McQuarrie ended the post by sharing: “Words can never adequately express our gratitude and admiration, not just to you, but to your loved ones. You are the best in the world.
Daredevil Tom: A cruiser parachuted from a helicopter, at the scene of the crashed train, which caused the wagons to hang on the edge of a cliff
A big compliment: McQuarrie called the cast and crew “indomitable, unstoppable and relentless,” when he shared the news of the film: “Even in the best of circumstances, it should have been impossible.”
In the photo, the two men look in the same direction in which they sat on the overturned train following a daring trick in Derbyshire, a county in the East Midlands of England.
Cruise, 59, parachuted out of a helicopter, causing the Norwegian train to crash on the edge of a cliff and be suspended upside down over large trees.
To make filming even more complicated during the pandemic and subsequent health and safety protocols, p.the roduction spread to parts of Italy, Norway, and England. There were several scenes that had been relocated, sometimes to another city, town, or country, due to a number of problems related to protocols and restrictions during production.
Gratitude and gratitude: McQuarrie got into the habit of thanking people, sometimes after finishing a shoot in a particular country; in this post, the director thanked the people of Birmingham
Documented mission 7: the filmmaker also thanked the people of Norway before heading to Rome, Italy, for the shooting of news from the film
MI7 is the third film in the McQuarrie-directed franchise, which also starred in the previous two: Rogue Nation (2015) and Fallout (2018).
And, as a result of all the problems and delays in production, the plan to go straight to the shooting of an eighth film Mission: Impossible, with the direction of McQuarrie, had to be left behind, as Deadline previously reported. .
Along with Cruise, Mission: Impossible 7 also stars Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Henry Czerny, Esai Morales and Frederick Schmidt, among others.
It is now scheduled to premiere in the United States on September 30, 2022.
After having been initially scheduled for the August 5, 2022 release date, the scheduled eighth film was withdrawn twice and will now fall on July 7, 2023.
Flexible Enemy: Last week, McQuarrie shared a photo of MI7 star Pom Klementieff, showing off his flexibility on the Mission set: Impossible 7; MI7 falls on September 30, 2022