‘Mission: Impossible 6’ Gets Summer 2018 Release Date, Alexander Payne’s ‘Downsizing’ Arrives In 2017
TheMission: Impossiblefranchise will return in 2018 to try and killTom Cruiseyet again. Paramount has just set a release date for the sixth installment of their action blockbuster franchise, which is being directed by returningRogue NationhelmerChris McQuarrie. More details, plus a new date forAlexander Payne’sDownsizing, below.
VarietyreportsMission: Impossible 6will drop into theaters onJuly 27, 2018— the same slot thatMission: Impossible – Rogue Nationoccupied in 2015. That date putsMission: Impossible 6in direct competition with Warner Bros.‘Aquaman, which has James Wan directing and Jason Momoa starring. Also opening that month is the James Cameron-producedAlita: Battle Angel, on July 20.Mission: Impossible 6will be the first in the franchise to welcome back a previous director, following earlier installments by Brian De Palma, John Woo, J.J. Abrams, and Brad Bird. McQuarrie additionally wrote the screenplay forRogue Nationand is doing the same forMission: Impossible 6. Details are being kept under wraps but word isRebecca Fergusonwill return as Ilsa Faust, a breakout character first introduced inRogue Nation.
Moving on, Paramount has scheduled the dramedyDownsizingforDecember 22, 2017, which seems to suggest they’ve got award-season hopes for this one. And reasonably so, considering the talent involved. It’s directed by Alexander Payne and features a starry cast including Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, and Kristen Wiig. The script was written by Payne and Jim Taylor, the same duo that won an Oscar for writingSidewaysin 2005. But the story’s quite odd.Downsizingcenters on a man who decides to shrink himself and join a community of tiny people.
Rounding out this latest wave of release date announcements, Paramount has also set an untitled “event horror film” to open in IMAX onApril 28, 2017and another untitled event film onNovember 2, 2018.
