Your mission, should you choose to take it on, is to head into theaters on July 14, 2023 for the long-awaited seventh installment of Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible" film franchise.
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” marks Cruise's final outing as Ethan Hunt, an agent for the Impossible Missions Force (IMF), who embarks on an operation that, as the title suggests, promises to be his most dangerous yet. moment.
On Sunday, Cruise literally appeared during an NFL commercial break on CBS to thank moviegoers for seeing his other high-flying sequel, "Top Gun: Maverick," in theaters over the summer. Before hopping off a plane, Cruise reminded viewers that he and filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie (who co-wrote "Maverick") were hard at work on the "Mission: Impossible" movies in South Africa.
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Writers: Bruce Geller, Christopher McQuarrie
Stars: Tom Cruise, Pom Klementieff, Rebecca Ferguson
Then, on Monday morning, Paramount and Skydance released a nearly nine-minute video that made it clear that jumping out of a plane isn't half of what Cruise will be doing in these movies.
"This is by far the most dangerous thing we've ever attempted," Cruise said of the stunt, billed as "the biggest in movie history."
To train for the complicated sequence, Cruise skydived more than 500 times and completed some 13,000 motocross jumps.
“I have to be so good at this that there's no way I'm going to miss my marks,” Cruise explained, reinforcing how dangerous this all is.
“Coming up with the trick is just one of the technical challenges,” McQuarrie added. “The other is to put a camera in a place where you can see where Tom is doing it: find the right lens, the right platform, the right medium. Even two years ago, the cameras didn't exist to allow us to do what we're trying to do today."
Because Cruise wants to give the audience "that thrill," and quite possibly a heart attack, the camera needs to be as close to him as possible. And from the looks of things so far, the audience won't miss a single bead of sweat that falls from his brow.
The title of the seventh film "Mission: Impossible" was officially revealed at CinemaCon in April 2021, and fans immediately wondered what the mysterious phrase could mean for Ethan and the IMF team. "Dead reckoning" is a navigation term, McQuarrie noted in an interview with Empire magazine, where he explained the connection between the phrase and the plot.
“There are a lot of things that emerge from Ethan's past,” the filmmaker told the magazine. "[Dead reckoning] means you're choosing a course based solely on your last known position and that becomes a metaphor not only for Ethan, but for various characters as well."
The first trailer for the film gave a glimpse of exactly which ghosts from Ethan's past might reappear, starting with Henry Czerny, who reprises his role as former IMF head Eugene Kittridge for the first time in more than 25 years.
"Your days of fighting for the so-called 'Greater Good' are over," Cherny's Kittridge tells Hunt at the top of the trailer, which shows off all the death-defying action sequences to come.
As tensions rise, Kittridge continues, serving Hunt with an ultimatum: “This is our chance to control the truth. The concepts of right and wrong, for everyone in the centuries to come. You are fighting to save an ideal that does not exist. never did. You have to pick a side.”
Cruise starred in and produced all of the "Mission: Impossible" films, which are based on the 1966 television series created by Bruce Geller and have grossed more than $3.5 billion at the box office. While the sequels (2000's Mission: Impossible II and 2006's Mission: Impossible III) used standard Roman numerals to distinguish them, the fourth film directed by Brad Bird, 2011's Ghost Protocol, broke that tradition. McQuarrie then took over the franchise with the fifth and sixth films, subtitled "Rogue Nation" and "Fallout", respectively.
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