As per the current plans, Mission: Impossible 8 is the last confirmed movie in the hit spy film franchise. However, with the seventh installment still in post-production, there are already worrying reports about how much money filming both sequels back-to-back at the peak of the pandemic is costing Paramount Pictures.
According to THR, the budget for Mission: Impossible has already hit a whopping $290 million, including tax incentives. This is easily the highest production budget of any Mission: Impossible film, nearly doubling that Mission: Impossible - Fallout at $178 million. The upcoming film is now on track to break the $300 million mark, and if that happens, it will displace 2007's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and 2017's Avengers: Infinity War as the fifth most expensive film ever made.
What makes this news rather unfortunate is that the ballooning budget isn't solely because of the franchise's big and impossible-esque set pieces. Rather, the brunt of the cost is from pandemic-related expenses.
