Production on the Tom Cruise action film “Mission: Impossible VII” has stopped in Venice, Italy following the outbreak of over 150 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the country, a spokesperson for studio Paramount Pictures told TheWrap.
The seventh film in the franchise was meant to shoot for three weeks in Venice with Christopher McQuarrie is directing. The spokesperson added that Cruise had not traveled to Italy.
“Out of an abundance of caution for the safety and well-being of our cast and crew, and efforts of the local Venetian government to halt public gatherings in response to the threat of coronavirus, we are altering the production plan for our three-week shoot in Venice, the scheduled first leg of an extensive production for Mission: Impossible 7,” a Paramount spokesperson said in a statement.