‘Mission: Impossible’ 7 and 8 are ‘Insane,’ Paramount CEO Says: ‘The Audience Lost Their Mind’
thewrap.comMission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning,” the exec didn’t hold back in his hype for the two-part blockbuster, calling it “insane” and raving about the results from audience test screenings. “The audience lost their mind and it’s still too long.
They’re gonna cut it. But the movie is insane. It’s like a complete thrill ride,” Bakish said at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference.The seventh “Mission: Impossible” film will see Tom Cruise return as IMF agent Ethan Hunt to once again thwart a shadowy organization bent on world domination no matter what the human cost.
But this time, his impossible task will bring him face-to-face with someone from his past: Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny), the former head of the IMF who was last seen in the first “Mission: Impossible” back in 1996. “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning” will be riding into theaters off the wave of Cruise’s global hit “Top Gun: Maverick,” the biggest blockbuster hit of last summer with nearly $1.5 billion grossed at the global box office.
Its runaway success turned it into Paramount’s second-highest grossing film of all-time behind only “Titanic” and drove the studio’s 2022 box office total to $2.3 billion worldwide, their best year since 2011.
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