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Hollywood is slowly starting back up again, following at least a couple of months of complete lockdown. Elsewhere, the film and TV industry are also looking forward to resuming work in the post-crisis world, which, for the likes of Tom Cruise, will entail daily commutes by private helicopter at the movie studio’s expense.
When Italy started closing down in April this year, Tom Cruise was in Venice, shooting the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise. Production then moved to the UK and continued until the end of March, when the country shuttered as well.
Last week, reports emerged that Paramount Pictures was eager to restart production and was looking at measures to ensure staff’s health, from actors and technical staff to stand-ins and stuntmen. Cruise is also a producer on the film and he reportedly had the idea of building a “village” of luxury Winnebago trailers on-site, at the abandoned RAF base in Oxfordshire that would serve as primary location.
Also then, it was said Cruise himself would live there with everybody else. The idea was simple: create a “bubble” for the entire cast and staff by having them live on-site for the duration of the production. With no one going in or coming out, everyone would be safe from infection.
That may still turn out to be the case, but not as regards Tom Cruise. According to the latest in The Sun, the actor won’t be living out of an RV, even if it’s a luxury one. The actor landed at Biggin Hill airport in London before the country’s new quarantine rules came into effect and was whisked away by car to a fancy London pad where he will be residing for the rest of the production.
He “will use a helicopter to dart back and forth to the set during filming breaks,” the report notes. This pretty much sounds like Cruise will be commuting by chopper on the daily while everyone else will camp out in trailers. The move might come across as typical A-list douchebaggery, but it’s probably a standard (and unexpected) move for someone as billable and famous as Cruise.
“Hopefully it will mean the film can get back on track and finished without any more delays,” a source adds for the same tabloid.
Mission: Impossible 7 will be released in November 2021, with Paramount hoping shooting wraps by the end of 2020, so it can head into editing in early 2021.
Last week, reports emerged that Paramount Pictures was eager to restart production and was looking at measures to ensure staff’s health, from actors and technical staff to stand-ins and stuntmen. Cruise is also a producer on the film and he reportedly had the idea of building a “village” of luxury Winnebago trailers on-site, at the abandoned RAF base in Oxfordshire that would serve as primary location.
Also then, it was said Cruise himself would live there with everybody else. The idea was simple: create a “bubble” for the entire cast and staff by having them live on-site for the duration of the production. With no one going in or coming out, everyone would be safe from infection.
That may still turn out to be the case, but not as regards Tom Cruise. According to the latest in The Sun, the actor won’t be living out of an RV, even if it’s a luxury one. The actor landed at Biggin Hill airport in London before the country’s new quarantine rules came into effect and was whisked away by car to a fancy London pad where he will be residing for the rest of the production.
He “will use a helicopter to dart back and forth to the set during filming breaks,” the report notes. This pretty much sounds like Cruise will be commuting by chopper on the daily while everyone else will camp out in trailers. The move might come across as typical A-list douchebaggery, but it’s probably a standard (and unexpected) move for someone as billable and famous as Cruise.
“Hopefully it will mean the film can get back on track and finished without any more delays,” a source adds for the same tabloid.
Mission: Impossible 7 will be released in November 2021, with Paramount hoping shooting wraps by the end of 2020, so it can head into editing in early 2021.
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