As Mission: Impossible prepares to resume principal photography on its seventh installment, the production has run into a new obstacle in Poland.

The production had planned to film at a bridge built in 1909 in the Polish village of Pilchowice, with plans to blow up part of the bridge for an action sequence. In response, there is a push for the bridge to recognized as a national monument. Deputy Culture Minister Pawel Lewandowski argued that the bridge, decommissioned from public use in 2016 over its steady deterioration, had no cultural value and the production would help bring global attention to Poland.

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"I would not be fixated on the fact that the Pilchowicki Bridge is a monument. It stands in ruins and has no value. Not all old things are monuments. The law clearly states that a monument is only that which has social, artistic or scientific value. In art and culture, that value only emerges when there is a relation between the cultural object and people. So if an object is unused, unavailable, it has no such value. Therefore it is not a monument," Lewandowski explained in a written statement to the Wirtualna Polska, an association of Polish businesses. "And only a small part of it will be destroyed during filming."

As locals protest the plans and seek to preserve the bridge as a monument, Lewandowski expressed his hopes that the government's revitalization funds and potential backing from the production will rebuild and restore the bridge. Meanwhile, filming on Mission: Impossible 7 is set to resume this September in the United Kingdom, with the production set to relocate to Poland in April.

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Mission: Impossible 7 stars Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Henry Czerny, Esai Morales, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff and Shea Whigham. It will release on Nov. 19, 2021, while Mission: Impossible 8 releases on Nov. 4, 2022.

via The First News

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