The impact that the pandemic of Coronavirus, also on the world of film productions.
Over the past two months, with the spread of contagion in Europe and the United States and the consequent restrictive measures on travel and business activities, blocked films are many and important.
The first major stop came at the end of February, with the interruption in Venice of the filming of “Mission: Impossible 7“with Tom Cruise, a stop that forced producers to rewrite the film by eliminating Italy from history to avoid further delays.
An attempt which then, with the global spread of the epidemic, proved useless to the point that Paramount announced that the seventh chapter, originally scheduled for theaters on July 23, 2021, will debut four months later, on November 19, 2021.
The eighth chapter, however, initially set for August 5, 2022, will hit the big screens on November 4 of the same year.
It also stopped “Elvis“directed by Baz Luhrmann. At the news of the infection of Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson in Queensland, Australia, all members of the production were quarantined.
Longer times for the Marvel movie “Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings“which in mid-March temporarily suspended production pending a result on the Covid-19 infection that Destin director Daniel Cretton had been subjected to, then negative.
Stop in the same days for the production in New Zealand of the sequels of “Avatar“by James Cameron, with the shooting of the next chapters of the saga postponed to a later date. Indefinite time also for the restart of the work for”The Batman“by Matt Reeves, the latest in a long series of films dedicated to the comic book character of the DC Comics universe.
Also stop for Ridley Scott’s latest project, “The Last Duel“with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, also in this case arrived indefinitely and a few days before the start of filming. He was shooting in Ireland to make the film expected for next Christmas.
Instead, the filming of “Macbeth“written and directed by Joel Coen and based on the tragedy of William Shakespeare, first work with only one of the Coen brothers. Interruption has also come for ‘The Matrix 4’, yet another episode of the series after the first film of 1999 and the sequels of 2013 ‘ The Matrix Reloaded’e ‘The Matrix Revolutions’.
Also stop “Jurassic World: Dominion“, adventure and science fiction film directed by Colin Trevorrow and the third chapter of the saga ‘Jurrasic World’, in addition to the production of ‘Nightmare Alley’, Guillermo del Toro’s psychological thriller based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham.
Also note the stop of “Midnight in the Switchgrass“, a crime thriller that also features Bruce Willis in the cast. Work was later interrupted for the films coming out on Netflix, such as the musical comedy ‘The Prom’ with Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman.
Returning to Europe, to signal the stop of production in Spain, another country hard hit by the pandemic, where it stopped “Official Competition“, a comedy directed by Argentine directors Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat with actors Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz.
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