Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is an upcoming American action spy film written, produced, and directed by Christopher McQuarrie. It is the sequel to Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) and is the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. The film stars Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Frederick Schmidt, Rob Delaney, Cary Elwes, Indira Varma, and Mark Gatiss.

In January 2019, Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films would be shot back-to-back with McQuarrie writing and directing both films. Returning and new cast members were announced soon after, and Lorne Balfe, who composed the musical score for Fallout, returned to score the film. Filming began in Italy in February 2020 but was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It resumed later that year and concluded in September 2021 with other filming locations, including Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. Unlike the previous three films, Bad Robot Productions was not involved in the production.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is scheduled for release in the United States on July 14, 2023, by Paramount Pictures. The sequel, Dead Reckoning Part Two, is to be released on June 28, 2024.

Cast 

Marcin Dorociński, Lampros Kalfuntzos, and Antonio Bustorff have also been cast in the film.

Production

Announcement and casting

On January 14, 2019, Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films would be shot back-to-back with McQuarrie writing and directing both films for July 23, 2021, and August 5, 2022, releases.[8][9]

In February 2021, Paramount scuttled that plan,[10] but Ferguson confirmed her return for the seventh installment.[11][12] In September 2019, McQuarrie announced on Instagram that Hayley Atwell had joined the cast.[13] In September 2019, Pom Klementieff joined the cast of both the seventh and eighth films.[14] In December 2019, Simon Pegg confirmed his return for the film, with Shea Whigham cast of both films.[15][16] Nicholas Hoult was cast in a role in January 2020, along with the addition of Henry Czerny, reprising his role as Eugene Kittridge for the first time since the 1996 film.[17][18] Vanessa Kirby also announced she was returning for both films.[19] In May 2020, it was reported that Esai Morales would replace Hoult as the villain in both films due to scheduling conflicts.[20]

Angela Bassett confirmed that she would return as Erika Sloane in December 2020, but was later removed from the film due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.[21][22] In March 2021, McQuarrie revealed on Instagram that Rob Delaney, Charles Parnell, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss and Cary Elwes had joined the cast.[7] That same day, Greg Davis was also confirmed to have joined the cast.

Filming 

Under the working title Libra,[24] filming was scheduled to begin on February 20, 2020, in Venice, set up to last for three weeks before moving to Rome in mid-March for 40 days,[25][26] but due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, production in the country was halted.[27] Three weeks later, stunt rehearsals began in Surrey, England, just before a hiatus.[28] On July 6, 2020, after another hiatus, crew arriving in the UK were given permission to begin filming without going through the mandatory 14-day quarantine. The set was located at Warner Bros Studios, Leavesden in Hertfordshire.[29]

The following month, similar permission was granted for filming in Møre og Romsdal, Norway.[30] That same month, a large fire broke out on a motorcycle stunt rig in Oxfordshire. The scene had taken six weeks to prepare and was "among one of the most expensive ever filmed in the U.K." No one was hurt in the incident.[31]

Filming began on September 6, 2020,[32] when McQuarrie started to publish pictures from the sets on Instagram.[33] In October 2020, across Norway, when the previous installment was filmed in Preikestolen, including the municipalities of Stranda and Rauma, with Cruise seen filming an action scene with Esai Morales atop a train.[34] On October 26, 2020, production was halted in Italy after 12 people tested positive



for COVID-19 on set. Filming resumed a week later.

In December 2020, during filming in London, an audio recording of Cruise shouting at two production crew members for not following the COVID-19 rules on set was released online.[35] Cruise was likened to his character Les Grossman from the 2008 film Tropic Thunder as a result.[36][37] The response from the general public and that of many celebrities was supportive, suggesting that his tone and seriousness were warranted given the extreme circumstances and burden of ensuring production not be halted again.[38][39] On December 28, 2020, Variety reported that the film would conclude principal photography at Longcross Film Studios in the United Kingdom, with production shifting from Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden. In Longcross, which is in Surrey in south-east England, productions were allowed to continue under strict COVID-19 protocols.[40] In February 2021, filming concluded in the Middle East and the crew would return to London for "finishing touches".

On April 20, 2021, filming commenced in the small village of Levisham, North Yorkshire, North Yorkshire Moors Railway,[41] for a sequence set in the Alps in Switzerland with a train going 60 miles (97 km) an hour through a bridge being blown up,[42][43] as a reference to the climactic train wreck scene in the 1926 silent film The General.[44] In August 2021, filming commenced in Birmingham at the city's Grand Central shopping centre, with Cruise and Atwell spotted by onlookers.[45] In September 2021, the film's gaffer Martin Smith confirmed on Instagram that principal photography had officially wrapped

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