Mission is possible in Tom’s village

bosses, including producer Tom Cruise, are said to be planning to build a coronavirus-free village on an abandoned RAF site to enable the movie to resume filming “quickly and safely”.

The movie’s bosses have taken over an abandoned RAF site in Oxfordshire, south-east England, where they want to construct a filming location, which will feature VIP Winnebago trailers for the stars of the film.

A source told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: “The film has already been heavily delayed and there’s no sign of things going totally back to normal any time soon, so this is a way to try to get things up and moving again quickly and safely.

“It’s also tough to get hotel rooms at the moment as most of them are shut for the foreseeable future, so it was this or delay things for even longer.

“It will mean some of the world’s biggest stars all living together in a posh campsite while working alongside the rest of the team.” Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s

programme, the movie’s first assistant director Tommy Gormley said: “We hope to start shooting again in September.

“We were days from shooting in Venice – we were right at the epicentre when it all kicked off – so we had to shut down in Venice where we were four or five days from shooting.”

And the film’s bosses look set to try to return to Italy at some point, as well as shoot “a big chunk” of the movie in the UK.

Gormley said: “We hope to visit all the countries we planned to and look to do a big chunk of it back in the UK on the backlot and in the studio, so September through to end April/May is our targets. We are convinced we can do this.”

Last month, the motion picture’s release date was pushed back to November next year, after it was originally set for release in July next year.

The film, which also stars

Rebecca Ferguson, Nicholas Hoult, and Hayley Atwell, and is to be directed by Christopher McQuarrie, suspended filming in Venice when the coronavirus started to spread across Italy. | Bang showbiz