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Nothing Can Stop Tom Cruise Except a $30 Million Submarine Malfunction

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Nothing Can Stop Tom Cruise Except a Million Submarine Malfunction

Nothing Can Stop Tom Cruise Except a Million Submarine Malfunction
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Photo: Instagram/Tom Cruise (composite)

Other than never owning another Bugatti again, there’s nothing else in the world that Tom Cruise can’t do. Well, that and the fact of being able to continue filming the eighth opus in the Impossible mission franchise.

According to the latest reports coming out of the United Kingdom, where the film has been filming for at least forever, the release date for the eighth film in the series has been pushed back. The delay is serious and indefinite at the moment, and it’s also due to a malfunction of the $30 million submarine that much of the story focuses on.

This submarine would be the Sevastopol stealth submarine featured in the previous film, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, part one. Second partwhich was originally scheduled to hit theaters this summer, will be the final installment in the series, so it makes sense that everyone involved – especially Cruise – wants it to go out with a bang.

Sources on set say the plan to achieve this was to focus more on the super-intelligent, AI-driven Russian submarine that was built in real life. The film will revisit Sevastopol ten years after the events of Dead Reckoning, part one.

Tom Cruise's death-defying stunt in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Photo: YouTube / Paramount Pictures

The malfunction that halted production involves not the submarine itself, but the gimbal that lowers the entire structure 120 feet (36.5 meters) in height. Apparently, production added props and stairwells to the submarine’s empty hull before realizing the gimbal couldn’t hold that much weight.

“They are not happy because it puts production behind schedule, which costs a lot of money per day,” ” an anonymous tipster told a British tabloid. The report notes that most Part one and probably Second part also filmed at Longcross Studios in Surrey, with the implication that this is also where the submarine’s shell is located.

There’s a lot to be said about the credibility of these anonymous sources who publish salacious stories in the tabloids, but there’s also this: Sometimes they’re right.

In summer 2020, while the seventh film was still in production, a report claimed that a dirt bike Cruise was training on for a stunt that ultimately turned out to be BASE jumping atop a world famous mountain during a bike stunt, exploded and set fire to the entire setting. Not only did the incident result in delays of a few weeks, but it also added at least $2.5 million more to an already ballooning budget.

At the time of writing these lines, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, part two (whew, that’s a mouthful!) has a tentative release date of May 2025. This tipster swears the wait could prove even longer, hinting that any sub malfunctions could require a longer period to be repaired.