Paramount Delays Top Gun: Maverick to May 2022 and Mission: Impossible 7 to September 2022

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It’s going to be a while before Tom Cruise fans can check out the daring actor’s next potential blockbusters.



Deadline has learned that Paramount is pushing Top Gun: Maverick to May 27, 2022 and Mission: Impossible 7 to Sept. 30, 2022. Top Gun: Maverick was supposed to release on November 19, 2021, a week before the Thanksgiving holiday, while Mission: Impossible 7 was supposed to release on the Memorial Day weekend date that Top Gun: Maverick now occupies.



Paramount made the decision to delay both Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible 7 due to the current conditions of COVID and its Delta variant. Experts seem to believe that theater attendance will return to some semblance of normalcy next year.



While Mission: Impossible 7 should be interesting thanks to the franchise’s tradition for death-defying stunts, Top Gun...
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Hmm... is this because of Covid 2.0, or some other reason?
 
Armenius said:
These movie studios are fooling themselves if they believe theater attendance will get back to pre-2020 level in the near future, even if the China Virus boogeyman disappears.
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Eh, I don't know we would be at the Drive In two or three nights a month if the normal production schedule was going on.
 
I'm less and less interested in these as time passes. Eventually I'll just forget about them. Not that I wanted to go to a theater anyway, I had not been for years before covid.
 
Sorta interested in Top Gun... haven't cared about MI for a long time.
 
Burticus said:
Sorta interested in Top Gun... haven't cared about MI for a long time.
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I didn't care much for Ghost Protocol at all, but the series got really good with Rogue Nation, in my opinion. I've enjoyed a lot of Christopher McQuarrie's writing work. McQuarrie wrote and directed both M:I7 and Top Gun: Maverick, in addition to Rogue Nation.
 
MadMummy76 said:
I always thought people go to theaters because of fomo or dating and not because they actually like the experience.
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Not far from the mark.

When I was a teenager it was almost exclusively dating. When I got older, but didn’t have my own home theater, it was for the big screen and “experience” - usually at the IMAX.

Now, especially with my OLED and new sound setup and the capacity to stream 4K — they may have a bigger screen at the theater but it isn’t better any longer. And I can drink whatever beer I want, eat whatever I want, not listen to the other teenagers spooning in the back, and pause to go to the bathroom.

I have no desire to ever go back to the theater
 
I'm very much interested in both, but I don't think I'll see them in the movie theater. Then again, 14yo kids are very persuasive, so time will tell...
 
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