Tom Cruise is said to be in crisis talks with Mission Impossible executives after spending £290 million on the upcoming seventh and eighth installments of the franchise.

This is tens of millions of dollars higher than the original budget. In comparison, the 2018 film “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” cost only $190 million to produce.

And the 59-year-old actor and filmmaker shows no signs of slowing down, according to The Sun, who reports that he flew to South Africa this week with his gear and crew in tow to begin production on MI:8.

‘People are starting to sweat on the costs now,’ sources said.

‘Nobody could have predicted what has happened but the fact is those delays and extra costs are stacking up now and it’s starting to get noticed.

‘Even with someone as big as Tom and these films, it’s the sort of money that has leveraged the studio heavily and bosses are desperate to start seeing things hit the screen.’

The intended September 2022 delivery date for MI:7 has been pushed back to July 2023, with a bill for extra costs estimated to be in the range of £50 million.

MI:8, which is now in production, has been impacted by the move.

“Nobody could have predicted what has happened,” a movie insider said, “but the fact is those delays and extra costs are stacking up now and it’s starting to get noticed.”

“Even with someone as big as Tom and these films, it’s the sort of money that has leveraged the studio heavily and bosses are desperate to start seeing things hit the screen.

“Top Gun 2 is the first in the pipeline for release now, two years after it was first supposed to be in cinemas, yet production is carrying on with the latest move to South Africa and those bills are just going up and up by the day.”

According to the Daily Mail, Tom Cruise is in “crisis” mode as a result of the exorbitant prices. When it comes to these extremely large and unanticipated charges, it appears that big CEOs are “starting to sweat.”

The chance to ride a motorbike down a Norwegian rockface during one of the film’s most crucial moments was ‘something Cruise wanted to accomplish’ since boyhood, who routinely does his own hazardous exploits as Hunt.

But according to Variety, pulling off the challenging maneuver meant delving even deeper into increasingly thin wallets for anxious Paramount and Skydance Media executives as the growing epidemic led in soaring expenditures.

In February 2020, filming for the film was planned to begin in Venice. As a result of the ongoing pandemic, it was compelled to start and halt production seven times. As a result, the crew and cast members have been hired for a longer period of time, which will necessarily cost more. Shutting down streets and towns is also not a cheap undertaking. Not to mention the time you pay to close a roadway just to have to change places quickly afterward.