Mission: Impossible - Fallout

[Hunter Rider]

This is nearly a full year from release, Justice League was still doing reshoots last month and it's out in November, they might well have the bulk of this movie in the can and have already finished filming in 3 other locations.

 

[Marvolo]

McQuarrie gives an update:

When asked about how Tom's recovery was going, McQuarrie stated that, "Tom is great. He’s in very good spirits. He’s feeling great about the movie. Very excited in general. When I went to see him, the first thing he said when I walked in the room was, ‘dude, my ankle’s broken’. Without missing a beat, I said, ‘there’s a silver lining to this cloud. We just don’t know what it is yet.’"

When asked to elaborate, McQuarrie told Empire that, "You never stop working. I’m on the backlot at Leavesden right now, getting ready to shoot an insert out in the field. You simply rearrange the order in which you were going to do certain things on the movie. This in fact gives us an opportunity to go into editorial and look at what we’ve shot and reassess the movie, which is a luxury you don’t normally have because you’re on a train that just doesn’t stop."

The director also shared that, as of Tom's injury, the film had roughly seven to eight more weeks worth of production left before going to post.

When asked about shutting down production completely, McQuarrie responded by saying, "We’ll assess what there is to be shot. And what we can shoot, and then what we’ll do is once we’ve shot through that we’ll go on a hiatus and then I’ll shift my attention over to editorial. We’ve already shot a huge chunk of the movie so you’re just taking a big chunk of post-production and moving it up sooner. Then we go back to shooting when the hiatus is over, which is to the full benefit of the movie. It’s similar to situations I’ve had on other movies where, for whatever reason, you go on hiatus and you’re able to look at the movie in a way you normally couldn’t and reevaluate. The lesson I learned on Valkyrie, which had its share of difficulties in production, and we always used to say ‘disaster is an opportunity to excel’."

Finally, when asked about how long the hiatus would last, McQuarrie simply stated, "The hiatus itself is unknown. We’re still figuring that out. Nothing that we’re looking at right now is going to affect the release date."


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[Hunter Rider]

 

[The Shape]

She is fire.

 

[Loki882]

Ilsa spin-off film, I'd be all for it.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Tom Cruise is Back in Action on Mission: Impossible 6 Set After Injury



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[Mysteryman]

Nice.
Back to work.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Looks like Xenu helped a great deal!

 

[Hunter Rider]

I can't wait to see that chopper sequence, it looks insane and I love it when they do as much practically as possible.

 

[TheVileOne]

Good to see Cruise doing okay and back at work.

 

[Mysteryman]

Good to see Cruise doing okay and back at work.

Yeah, I think that there is a really good chance that they make their release date.

 

[Visceral]

low flying chopper sequence...red light green light

 

[Mysteryman]

low flying chopper sequence...red light green light

Cruise is wearing all black which reminds me of Daniel Craig in Spectre, which I just finished watching.

 

[psylockolussus]

Fierce!

Its amazing how old this franchise is. I hope Tom Cruise can keep doing these mi films up to his early 70s. We are growing old with these films just like him.

 

[samsnee]

I rewatched Ghost Protocol last night and realized Hunt has gone rogue pretty much every movie:

M:I Ethan is set up by Phelps and hunted
M:I-2 Does not go rogue
M:I-3 Ethan is set up by Musgrave and has to go rogue to steal the rabbit’s foot
M:I Ghost Protocol Ethan is set up for blowing up the Kremlin and has to go rogue
M:I Rogue Nation Ethan has to go rogue to find and expose the Syndicate

 

[TheVileOne]

I wonder if he will go rogue again this time or what forces him to.

But I'm also intrigued by Ilsa and Julia coming back and how that will work. Granted, nothing ever really happened between Ethan and Ilsa, but there was some chemistry and flirtation there. She did sort of ask him to run away with her. He parted ways with Julia, his wife, but that was to protect her.

 

[Mysteryman]

I rewatched Ghost Protocol last night and realized Hunt has gone rogue pretty much every movie:

M:I Ethan is set up by Phelps and hunted
M:I-2 Does not go rogue
M:I-3 Ethan is set up by Musgrave and has to go rogue to steal the rabbit’s foot
M:I Ghost Protocol Ethan is set up for blowing up the Kremlin and has to go rogue
M:I Rogue Nation Ethan has to go rogue to find and expose the Syndicate

Still wondering what the heck the Rabbits foot was in the first place.

 

[Marvolo]

I assume it was a dirty bomb.

 

[Loki882]

I'm not sure that even JJ Abrams could tell you if you asked him. He's quite good as setting up mysteries/McGuffins, not so much on paying them off (and I say that as a fan of most of his work). He likely didn't ever intend to tell us what it was.

I personally thought that it was something to do with information-gathering myself.

 

[TheVileOne]

Yeah I think it could've been any of those things. It could've been a dirty bomb, maybe an advanced EMP device, something to spy on the US or gather information, or some sort of digital backdoor. I think it's true use was just inconsequential, hence why they never actually told us what it does. Arguably, it's more fun to think what it really was or supposed to do yourself.

 

[Loki882]

Not really. I don't subscribe to the notion that "not telling the audience basic details" is somehow "more fun or intelligent." It often feels lazy to me actually.

And tellingly, none of the other films in the franchise have done that, which makes me more certain that it was JJ "I love mystery boxes" Abrams indulging himself.

 

[TheVileOne]

I don't think that's always the case. In Ronin we don't know what's inside the briefcase they are all trying to obtain. And we never see what's inside the glowing briefcase in Pulp Fiction.

I'd agree it doesn't always make the film more fun and intelligent. And yeah we usually do know what they are after in each film. In the first movie, it's the NOC list, in the second one it's the virus and serum, in the fourth one, it's the nuclear codes. In the fifth one, it's the secret data on the Syndicate.

 

[samsnee]

I read in an interview that they didn’t try to explain what the rabbit’s foot was because it wouldn’t have changed the story. All the audience needs to know is that the good guys have to steal it.

 

[The Shape]

Regarding the Rabbit's Foot in MI3, there's no concrete explanation is what it was or what it could do, but this is what that IMF analyst says in the film:

"It's interesting - I used to have this professor at Oxford, okay? Doctor Wickham, his name was and he was, like, this massive fat guy, you know? Huge, big guy. We used to call him - you know, well, I won't tell you what we used to call him, but he taught biomolecular kinetics and cellular dynamics. And he used to sort of scare the underclassmen with this story about how the world would eventually be eviscerated by technology. You see, it was inevitable that a compound would be created which he referred to as the 'Anti-God'. It was like an accelerated mutator or sort of, you know, like a, an unstoppable force of destructive power, that would just lay waste to everything - to buildings and parks and streets and children and ice cream parlors, you know? So whenever I see, like, a rogue organization willing to spend this amount of money on a mystery tech, I always assume...it's the Anti-God. End-of-the-world kinda stuff, you know... [pauses, Ethan and Luther gaze at him thoughtfully] But no, I don't have any idea what it is. I was just speculating."

The device itself is also shown to have a "biohazard" symbol on it. So aside from its true purpose as the film's MacGuffin, I would wager the device itself was either some kind of extremely dangerous biological agent/substance/weapon or the key to developing such a substance/weapon.

It's true function obviously wasn't important and wouldn't have affected the story either way.

 

[Marvolo]

Maybe it was anti-matter? Antimatter can cause annihilation. The most destructive reaction in the universe.

Or maybe it was just an actual harmless rabbit foot that some ******* put in a biohazard canister and tried to scam criminals with. That certainly gives the film a whole new angle.