Actor Tom Cruise has commented on the success of his Mission: Impossible movies.
Cruise has played the character of IMF Agent Ethan Hunt since the first Mission: Impossible film in 1996. With the seventh installment around the corner in the wildly successful franchise, Cruise has spoken about the process of making Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, and how the series has grown.
“It’s constantly evolving,” Cruise told Empire. “You have to be pretty unrelenting, and honest with yourself about stories and structure and what’s working and what’s not. I don’t want to stop until it’s right.”
This rings true about a franchise with its first five installments all having different directors behind the camera. This led to each movie having its own unique feel until Christopher McQuarrie directed the fifth movie, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, and stayed to direct the series up till the upcoming eighth movie.
McQuarrie once spoke about how during the production of Dead Reckoning Part One, he found out Berlin would no longer let them film a foot chase at an under-construction airport. “We were going to shoot this airport sequence and a foot chase there,” he says. “And then Berlin said, ’No, we’re too close to the opening of the airport.’” Suddenly, the foot chase was off. The airport sequence was out. Another punch to roll with on a production packed with them.
“Then Abu Dhabi said, ’Well, we have an airport,’” recalls McQuarrie. “And we said, ’Great — instead of a foot chase, let’s do something in the desert.’” This led the Dead Reckoning cast and crew to Abu Dhabi, where they made what McQuarrie calls “the hardest, hardest sequence I have ever had to work out. Now, it’s a sequence of which we are immensely, immensely proud. But it’s like everything else on Mission — if I’d known going in, I would never have done it.”
When is Mission: Impossible 7 coming out?
The Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One release date is July 12, 2023, by Paramount Pictures.
The cast includes many familiar faces such as Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, and Henry Czerny reprises his role from the original Mission: Impossible. New cast members include Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, Shea Whigham, Pom Klementieff, and Cary Elwes.
“Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands,” reads the official synopsis. “With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission — not even the lives of those he cares about most.”
