The majority were not willing to cross a picket line.
At the in-person meeting, they were told production has been shut down for the day.
Neither the studio nor Wayfarer would comment.
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Meanwhile, Deadline is told that web reports thatMission: Impossible 8has been postponed by theWGA strikeare untrue.
Paramount opens the Skydance film July 12, and evidently an article on directorChristopher McQuarriewas misinterpreted.
It mentioned these films were challenged by the Covid pandemic and the WGA strike.
Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in ‘Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning – Part One’ from Paramount Pictures and SkydanceParamount Pictures and Skydance
That led some internet outlets to make the leap that the film wont shoot because of the latter circumstance.
That isnt the case, were told.
Cruise and McQuarrie are busy promoting the film, and that has always been the plan.
Theyve shot some of the newMission: Impossible, and they expect to resume later in the summer.
Hopefully, thelaborstalemate will be over by then.
