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Christopher McQuarrie Talks MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION STUNTS

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Over the course of the Mission: Impossible films, Tom Cruise has dangled from ceilings, jumped from motorcycles and helicopters, and scaled the tallest building in the world. So it’s safe to say the series isn’t meant for someone who has difficulty with heights. Then again… “I have crazy vertigo,” says Rebecca Ferguson (Hercules), the latest addition to the franchise. She plays an operative with ambiguous allegiances who aids Cruise’s Ethan Hunt in his fight against the Syndicate, a mysterious shadow organization that operates as an anti-IMF. “Of course, the first scene we did, Tom and me, was throwing ourselves off a Vienna rooftop. I was going to say, ‘It couldn’t get worse,’ but it definitely did.”

At least she didn’t have to hang on to the side of an Airbus A400M cargo plane as it took off—something director Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher) reserved for his star. “They brought me this plane, and I was looking at the model,” says McQuarrie. “And I said to Tom, ‘What if you were on the outside of this plane?’ I was kinda half joking when I said it, and he just looked at me and said, ‘Yeah, I could do that.’” Cruise, always one to do his own stunts, was actually strapped to the plane as it was flying at 3,000 feet while filming the sequence, which gives us vertigo just thinking about it.

Source: Entertainment Weekly

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE NATION Trailer Released!

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Paramount Pictures have dropped the first trailer for Mission Impossible 5 or should I say Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation. It’s filled to the brim of action, awesomeness, and another death-defying stunt from Tom Cruise himself! Check out what both Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie had to say about that very stunt, plus when you’re done with that look at the teaser itself!

Normal airline passenger boarding isn’t good enough for Tom Cruise anymore. Cruise just wings it as he steps back into the role of superspy Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible 5.
“I’ve often sat on airplanes, looked out and thought, ‘What it would be like out there on the wing?’ ” says Cruise. “This is the (stuff) I think about.”
“That’s me the whole time. I was standing right over the tires when we landed,” says Cruise, 52, proudly. “It’s nerve-racking for everyone else, but pretty exciting for me.”
The rare stunt shows the spectacular bar that Cruise must surpass each time up for the franchise, which has grossed more than $2 billion worldwide. Mission: Impossible and Cruise have produced iconic action images since the series started nearly 20 years ago — from Hunt breaking into CIA headquarters, suspended from the ceiling, in 1996’s Mission: Impossible to scaling the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai for 2011’s Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol.
“We knew anything we did was going to be compared with the Burj. But it’s not like you could wait for someone to build an even taller building,” says director Christopher McQuarrie. “We keep pushing the envelope.”

Stunts that involved speeding on motorcycles, getting airborne in cars and holding his breath underwater for a lengthy period were executed in Morocco, Vienna and London. So there’s little time for rest, even after riding outside an A400 for two days.

“I was pretty exhausted, but there’s always more work to be done on a Mission movie,” says Cruise. “It always seems like there’s not enough hours in the day making them.”

Directed by McQuarrie (The Way of the Gun, Jack Reacher), the new Mission Impossible movie also stars Jeremy Renner (Marvel’s The Avengers, Kill the Messenger), Alec Baldwin (The Departed, 30 Rock), Simon Pegg (Star Trek, The World’s End), Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction, Dawn of the Dead), Simon McBurney (The Last King of Scotland, The Theory of Everything) and Rebecca Ferguson (Hercules, The Red Tent) and features a screenplay by Will Staples and Drew Pearce.

A Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot production, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation will hit 2D and IMAX theaters July 31.

Source: USA Today

Director Christopher McQuarrie Reveals MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 5 Details

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Production is nearing the end on Mission: Impossible 5 in London, with the film’s new July 31st release date looming closer. Writer/director Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher) has been pretty vocal on Twitter throughout filming, interacting with fans and sharing some updates here and there—most recently when reports swirled that the ending of the film was being retooled.

As filming is almost over, McQuarrie took to Twitter earlier today and participated in a spontaneous Q&A re: Mission: Impossible 5. He was refreshingly forthcoming about the production, revealing why certain characters aren’t returning, discussing the film’s tone, and more—all the while keeping the plot and such in the bag. Most excitingly, McQuarrie says the official title and a trailer will be coming “very soon”.

Since McQuarrie addressed a number of responses, I’ve compiled a list of some of the bigger beans the filmmaker spilled below, followed by a few select tweets. Here’s some of what we found out:

  • The ending of the movie did not have to be rewritten or reshot, it had to be prepped. That’s what they’re filming right now.
  • The subtitle and trailer are coming soon.
  • Ghost Protocol star Paula Patton and Mission: Impossible 3 star Maggie Q were unavailable to return.
  • Composer Joe Kraemer (Jack Reacher) is “playing with something retro, of course” for the score.
  • When asked if we’d get another great McQuarrie shootout, he responded “Kind of. Trust me.”
  • Those expecting the film to be old school “won’t be disappointed.”
  • Nods to the original “abound.”
  • Sean Harris is indeed playing the film’s villain.
  • mission-impossible-5-simon-pegg-tom-cruiseWe will see more of Jeremy Renner’s Agent Brandt, Ving Rhames has more screentime than he did in Ghost Protocol, and Simon Pegg’s Benji “gets his hands plenty dirty.”
  • The film will have the feel of an episode of the old show.
  • We’ll know from the trailer what McQuarrie wanted to do in this story that hadn’t been done in other M:I stories.
  • There will be some score-less action scenes as in Jack Reacher and McQuarrie’s first film, The Way of the Gun.
  • There are specific Brian De Palma references.
  • McQuarrie broke his personal record for footage shot.

For more info on the film, check out a few of McQuarrie’s tweets below, and stay tuned for the trailer in the coming weeks.