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.
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