The most recent sixth film in the “Mission: Impossible” series, ‘Fallout,’ spent much of its last act set in Kashmir but filming actually took place in two locations on the opposite sides of the world – both equally very far away from the Himalayan foothills.
While most of that last was filmed on the south island of New Zealand, the final mano-e-mano fight between Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and Henry Cavill’s August Walker was shot in Norway – specifically on the Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock) which is surrounded by mountain peaks and has an impressive 600m drop into a fjord.
Now, production on the upcoming seventh film is hoping to return to Norway this year. Cruise reportedly had a conversation on Saturday with Norway’s culture minister Abid Raja about filming there this fall.
Raja tweeted a short clip of his meeting with Cruise saying: “It’s a gorgeous country. I can’t wait to get back there. I’m very excited, as is the whole crew, about coming back.” Raja further explained to Norwegian website VG (via Deadline) that production is aiming to shoot in north-western Norway which is famed for its fjords, mountains and waterfalls.
However with current coronavirus restrictions some things will have to be worked out first. The minister says: “We will have to discuss this in the government and make regulations for it before we give permission to film in Norway. We will abide by the rules and coronavirus restrictions. I will take my conversation with Cruise to the government.”
Norway currently asks arrivals from a number of non-EU countries like the U.S. to observe a ten-day quarantine period. However much of the film’s crew is UK based and even visiting U.S. personnel have quarantined in the UK first so it likely won’t be as much an issue.
