Work on Mission: Impossible 7 stops again due to Covid-19
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Tom Cruise on the set of Mission: Impossible 7 while filming in Rome on Oct 6, 2020.
PHOTO: REUTERS
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) - Filming in Britain on the latest Mission: Impossible movie has been shut down for two weeks after some people working on it tested positive for Covid-19, Paramount Pictures said on Thursday (June 3).
The studio did not say who or how many people had tested positive but Britain's Sun newspaper said star Tom Cruise was not among them.
"We have temporarily halted production on Mission: Impossible 7 until June 14, due to positive coronavirus test results during routine testing. We are following all safety protocols and will continue to monitor the situation," Paramount said in a statement.
The Sun, citing unnamed sources, said 14 members of the production tested positive after shooting a nightclub scene, and that Cruise, like other people working on the set, would have to self-isolate for 14 days.
A spokesman for Cruise, who is also a producer on the action film, did not immediately return a call for comment.
Mission: Impossible is one of the biggest franchises in Hollywood. The seventh film in the series was one of the first movies to shut down production because of the pandemic when it abandoned work in Venice, Italy in February 2020.
Shooting resumed last year in countries including Norway, Italy and Britain. Cruise was caught on audio tape last December yelling at the crew over breaches in Covid-19 safety protocols.
Mission: Impossible 7 is due to be released in May 2022.
