KEY POINTS

  • Cruise's "Mission: Impossible 7" has been touted to resume filming this September
  • To help jumpstart filming, the action star, along with the production team, is looking to build a "COVID-free" makeshift village in order to avoid jeopardizing the crew's health
  • Cruise and the film's A-list cast will be staying in VIP Winnebago trailers as they slowly whip through remaining scenes

Amid the cancellation of the “Mission: Impossible 7” filming, Tom Cruise is looking to build a “COVID-free village” at an abandoned RAF site in Oxfordshire.

With the move, it seems the actor is eager to resume filming — even if it calls for some desperate measures. Cruise, 57, is reportedly planning to build a makeshift village so they can start working through some movie scenes without jeopardizing the health of the production crew.

The actor-producer, along with his A-list cast, will be staying in VIP Winnebago trailers while they slowly slink some clips in a bubble.

The delay of several Hollywood films, including Cruise’s “Mission Impossible: 7,” has undeniably caused an apparent downturn in film production. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the production of the seventh installment saw a delay in release from July 2021 to Nov. 19, 2021.

The action-packed segment eventually relocated filming from Venice to the U.K. until it was forced to quell production indefinitely.

Meanwhile, film producers, as well as the 57-year-old action star himself, are currently navigating ways on how to jumpstart filming. And the idea of constructing a self-contained environment is apparently the production’s best way to help set workers and actors avoid health risks.

“The film has already been heavily delayed and there’s no sign of things going totally back to normal any time soon, so this is a way to try to get things up and moving again quickly and safely,” a source revealed to The Sun.

The insider said that booking hotel rooms has also been difficult to tackle “as most of them are shut for the foreseeable future.”

“It will mean some of the world’s biggest stars all living together in a posh campsite while working alongside the rest of the team,” the source said. “It’s pricey but Tom always does things bigger and better than anyone, and there’s a hell of a lot riding on this film.”

Excluding Cruise who plays the film lead Ethan Hunt, staple cast members, including Simon Pegg (Benji Dunn) and Rebecca Fergusson (Isla Faust), are among those expected to set up home at the makeshift village to push through with the remaining film scenes.

In related news, first assistant director Tommy Gorney told Paramount on Tuesday that they are aiming to restart work on the action-packed blockbuster this autumn, with hopes of “visiting all the countries” where they initially planned to film in.

Director Brad Bird (L) and cast members Tom Cruise (2nd L), Paula Patton (2nd R) and Simon Pegg pose on the red carpet during the European premiere of the movie "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" (Phantom Protokoll) in Munich
Director Brad Bird (L) and cast members Tom Cruise (2nd L), Paula Patton (2nd R) and Simon Pegg pose on the red carpet during the European premiere of the movie "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" (Phantom Protokoll) in Munich December 9, 2011. Reuters