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We have some exciting news from WonderCon today (Saturday Feb 11th)!!!
Michael called us a little while ago to let me know they had shown him two exclusive clips from M:I-3! We asked him for a mini description of each and this is what we got: Please note that the descriptions are full of spoilers. Michael will hopefully return and add more to our descriptions.
Clip 1
The first clip was about 5 minutes long. It is the extended scene from the action sequences taking place on the bridge in the teaser trailer. Tom Cruise and his 'team' are riding across the bridge when they are ambushed by Philip Hoffman's men. Cars are seen flying every which way and there is a sense of total chaos and meyhem onscreen.
Apparently from what can be made out, Cruise and his 'team' are in the midst of a battle with a helicopter loaded with impressive fire power. The helicopter is attacking Cruise and his men, and they are returning fire. Cruise is trying to help everyone off the bridge as civilians can be seen running around in panic. From the scene, you get the impression that Cruise is desperately trying to protect an audio or a video tape. At one point he loses it and tries to locate it under a car.
The Helicopter notices him near the car and calls in the Airplanes that we've already witnessed in the teaer trailer. The intentions are to bomb the general area around Cruise and the car. Ving Rhames alerts Cruise to the incoming planes and Cruise throws the tape out of the car and takes off running. That is when the car is blown up and he goes flying into the white car as seen in the teaser.
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Clip 2
The second clip was about 3 minutes long. It is the extended scene from the start of the teaser, and revolves around Cruise and Rhames questioning Hoffman. Michael got the feeling that the scene was taking place in some narrow aisle, the type you would expect in an airplane though he cannot be sure of this.
Hoffman is sitting on a chair near a table, handcuffed with his shirt very bloodied. Cruise and Rhames are interrogating him about some information that he possesses. They ask him to tell them everything that he knows, including names of certain contacts. There is a bit of back and forth and Philip Hoffman refuses to provide any information and reminds Cruise about those that he has lost (?) as seen in the trailer. Cruise loses it and smashes the chair Hoffman is sitting on and opens some hatch at the bottom. You can feel the place moving around.
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Michael's version
Following that was the biggie Mission Impossible III. Since it was scheduled to start at 12:30pm, many people got to the room just for that, and it was completely full by noon. The capacity is probably close to 2,000. Because of the initial delay in the morning, M:i:III didn't start until after 1pm. The teaser trailer was first shown, and as expected, the whole room went banana, and the noise got especially louder when JJ was introduced. They showed two exclusive clips, both of which are extended scenes from the trailer, and they were covered quite well in the write-up we had up at WOKJ this afternoon. They actually showed the Hoffman clip first. I felt Hoffman could be a great villain from that scene. His hands were tied behind the chair, with Cruise and Rhames sitting across the tabe, and his shirt was all bloody, but he wasn't intimidated at all. It's like Jack Baumer facing his equal in an episode of 24. Cruise was saying "you are dead; you are going tell us everything, giving us every name...", while Hoffman replied by saying he is going to find his wife, hurt her, make her plead, and kill him right in front of her. Cruise yelled "who's the supplier?", and Hoffman ignored again and said "see what I did to your friend, right? That was fun." That's when Cruise snapped and dragged him across the aisle, opened a hatch and threw Hoffman face down violently.
For the second clip on the bridge, the entire convoy was attacked by air missile. Among the people who fired back, I saw an asian face, and later on from the question, I got to know it's Maggie Q. Cruise was running and yelling "Get down! get down!", while firing at the helicopter as well. He went back under the car to try to get a video tape out. The helicopter noticed him and notified the jet that carried the missiles. The jet fired. Rhames yelled, and Cruise had his eyes wide open staring at the incoming missile for a split second. He threw the tape out, got out of the car, and started running when the car was hit, and his body got thrown and slammed into another car.
Supposedly the visual effect shots overall are twice as much here as in War of the Worlds. I'll try to remember more about what questions were asked to JJ.