Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible 7” has set a September target date to resume filming following a nearly five-month hiatus.
The action-thriller was just days away from beginning production in Venice, Italy, when the coronavirus pandemic paused all production as the country went into lockdown.
Simon Pegg, who plays Benji in the franchise, says the outdoor scenes will begin first, telling Variety it “feels fairly doable, and obviously there will be precautions put in place. “People that are involved in any close proximity stuff, it will have to be determined that they’re safe to do that.
I don’t know what the testing situation is, how that works, or whether they’ll be able to be tested regularly,” Pegg explains.