The Biggest Movies Affected by the Actors’ Strike So Far

Juror #2: The next, and reportedly final, film in Clint Eastwood’s productive late-career period tells the tense story of a jury member realizing he is the one at fault for a victim’s death, not the person on trial for murder. Nicholas Hoult plays the lead role, while Toni Collette, Zoey Deutch, and Kiefer Sutherland round out the cast. Variety reported that shooting in Savannah, Georgia, will be suspended due to the strike.

Brad Pitt’s Formula 1 movie: Any fan of F1 knows that seeing A-list celebrities in the paddock is normal, but Brad Pitt has been really, really involved as he preps for a racing movie directed by Top Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski and starring Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, and Javier Bardem in other key roles. Pitt, who appeared at the British Grand Prix and has driven an F2 car on the actual track, has immersed himself in the world of F1 to play a mentor–slash–aging whiz.

Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning, Part Two: Production on the follow-up to the reigning No. 1 movie in America is already mostly finished. Producer-director Christopher McQuarrie told Collider that, as of early July, “we’ve shot all but one of our international locations.” Still, given the scale of Tom Cruise and McQuarrie’s action epics, and the need to make this a satisfying conclusion to the franchise’s first two-part entry, the scenes left to shoot are presumably pretty colossal. Dead Reckoning, Part Two is slated for a June 28, 2024, release, though these last crucial scenes won’t be filmed during the strike.

Venom 3: The third entry in Tom Hardy’s delightfully weird antihero saga started filming in June, with a strong cast including Juno Temple and Chiwetel Ejiofor. There are few concrete plot details about Eddie Brock’s next odyssey, though it comes from a story by Hardy and writer-director Kelly Marcel. (Some outlets have posited that the film’s shooting location and a few set-picture leaks mean it could connect to the Day of the Dead.) Back in June, Variety reported a rumored release date sometime in October 2024, another one that seems difficult to imagine with a protracted strike, though it would lend credence to the popular otherworldly holiday being prominent.

Beetlejuice 2: Almost to the finish line, Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice sequel “was still expected to film one last sequence in Vermont,” though the brunt of shooting had been completed. (Jenny Ortega, who has become something of a lightning rod in the WGA for comments made about her involvement in Wednesday’s writing, was spotted in Vermont shortly before the strike began.) The film is bringing back Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara, while adding Ortega and Justin Theroux to the cast, but the plot has been kept tightly underwraps. Maybe Burton can spend this time getting the original sequel idea, Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, back from the dead.