section_path: Production/Development
section_name: Development
paragraph_text: Development
  
  On January 14, 2019, Tom Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films would be shot back to back with Christopher McQuarrie writing and directing both films for July 23, 2021, and August 5, 2022, releases. However, in February 2021, Deadline Hollywood revealed that Paramount had decided to no longer move forward with that plan.
  
  On January 14, 2019, Tom Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films would be shot back to back with Christopher McQuarrie writing and directing both films for July 23, 2021, and August 5, 2022, releases. However, in February 2021, Deadline Hollywood revealed that Paramount had decided to no longer move forward with that plan.