Mission: Impossible filming to resume at Warner Bros Studios under quarantine exemption plans

Tom Cruise attending the Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation premiere at the BFI Imax, Waterloo, London.
Mission: Impossible star Tom Cruise Credit: PA

Filming on the latest Mission: Impossible movies will be able to resume in England as the Government looks to exempt high-end stars from quarantine.

Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden is said to have spoken to the franchise’s star Tom Cruise earlier in the week about how the production will be able to continue.

Both Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 – which feature American actor and producer Cruise – are being shot at the Warner Bros Studios Leavesden in Hertfordshire.

The Government said it will publish guidance this week allowing “small numbers” of essential cast and crew to travel to the UK without having to quarantine for 14 days.

Tom Cruise (second left) walks along Blackfriars Bridge during filming in 2018 for Mission Impossible 6 Credit: PA

Exempted individuals will instead have to live and work in controlled “bubbled” environments – such as filming locations – for the same period of time.

The exemption applies to individuals coming to England specifically to work on film and television productions which qualify as British, the Government said.

  • Cruise revealed in January last year that the next two Mission: Impossible action films would be released in Summer 2021 and Summer 2022

  • However filming on Mission: Impossible 7, which will feature British actor Simon Pegg, had to be halted in Italy in February over coronavirus fears

  • The films focus on agent Ethan Hunt, played by Cruise, and will be directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who previously worked on 2015’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Mission: Impossible – Fallout in 2018.

Back in June, Universal said it was due to resume filming on Jurassic World: Domination in the UK from the second week of July at Pinewood Studios near Slough.