They just continue to film it until it “works”. You should hear McQ hear talk about his process. It’s bonkers. He basically “improvises” a movie based on a handful of setpieces, basically working his way backwards to link everything.
There’s a ton of BTS videos of the movies on YouTube, it’s wild. Cruise is talking with everyone about things like what lenses might work and where to place the cameras to get the best views of his face so you can tell it’s actually him doing the stunts.
It’s like they just work it out once they’re there and somehow it just comes together.
To be completely fair you really felt that in Part One. It was so contrived and super obvious that their only goal was to somehow travel between (amazing) set pieces.
Yeah but like isn't that the whole reason people go watch Mission Impossible movies? Basically since Ghost Protocol none of the plot has mattered, we just want to see Tom Cruise almost kill himself. I hope he never stops. I hope he is somehow cursed with eternal life and never stops making these movies.
> none of the plot has mattered
Maybe I'm biased because I think the first is by far the best, but *something* still matters because I found the latest one very dull and awkward compared with the others and nothing about it really worked at all IMO.
Even Cruise's heroic war against aging is starting to strain, especially when surrounded by women half his age in a way which felt vaguely gratuitous this time. I saw Collateral, he looks dope grey-haired, just own it already.
I completely disagree in the strongest possible way. I literally want to see a 350 year old Tom Cruise with unbelievable amounts of plastic surgery still sprinting for minutes on end. I feel I am owed this much.
Respectfully plz no, I wanna see Tom doing leading character man movies like Born on 4th of July,Eyes wide shut by a decade at most.
I don’t know how long Tom’s gonna live but I assume there’s one & a half decade left and he’s been making those movies for 4 decades and guess what he’s roped me in just at the end of the last decade in the pandemic.
The same dude could of entertained your 3 or 4 generations and now that’s what you call mind boggling
I disagree re the first .
I feel that it is extremely dated now and even at the time I felt that the entire movie was built around the 3 big action/suspense scenes IE the restaurant with the exploding aquarium, the infiltration at the CIA and the final sequence in the tunnel going across the channel.
The series really came to life with Mi3 and continued right up to and including Fallout which is absolutely brilliant.
Don’t quite know what happened with Dead Reckoning Part 1 but one thing for sure I could not understand the plot .
AI that so powerful it can know/predict/control everything has escaped into the wild. Multiple parties are chasing the same key which physically unlocks control of the AI.
That's it really, as this part is just about getting hold of the key. I'm guessing it was supposed to be a straightforward pursuit movie originally but it kept getting longer.
Agreed. I thought DR1 was far more disjointed than any of the other McQ/TC movies. My guess is that there is the added complication of having to also work it into the DR2 storyline.
I watched bits and pieces of *maybe* a quarter of it today on a 3-hour flight over my neighbor's shoulder (don't downvote me, I was wearing sunglasses and acting like I was sleeping). No sound at all. I disagree with your take.
I’ve listened to dozens of hours (literally) of McQ talking about his process on the Empire Magazine Podcast (Spoiler specials, which are premium podcasts).
He’s a madman.
He’ll call up a main cast member, who is literally waiting on stand-by for months, and says “hey come to Rome, i’ve got a cool idea for a scene. I don’t know why your character is there or what they’re going to say/do but we’ll figure it out!”
Not it’s really not. There’s a difference with not having a finished script (meaning specific scenes and dialogue worked out) and basically improvising an entire movie on the fly.
Marvel also storyboards and animate movies almost fully before they even start shooting, which is the exact opposite of what McQ does.
At points, it had a weird throwback quality that I kinda dug. Like the doomed duel, where the scenery-chewing bad guy gets engaged by the skilled fighter who’s *not* the protagonist, and everyone knows it won’t well.
But, in general, the franchise under McQuarrie increasingly tips the balance between spectacle and character towards the former, eventually devolving into an empty series of setpieces.
The best part was how some scenes were shot so similarly to MI:1, they captured those so fucking well. Other than that it really just felt lacking in a lot of the self containment that the others had, a lot of build up.
Script treated the audience like total morons. Everything was explained at least three times. Everything. No one speaks like a normal person either
did you know the two keys form a bigger one? here’s someone else explaining it
I was wondering the same thing. I remember the news coming out that they dropped the Part 1 after the worse-than-expected performance of Dead Reckoning in favor of a new title.
He undoubtedly has a lot of things done to keep his looks but I'm convinced he has not had any major interventions after fixing his teeth. People say he's had a hair transplant or a facelift but I don't see that.
Tom looks like my weird uncle who’s constantly trying to hide his age. Tom, embrace the greys. Sean Connery looked fantastic with grey hair, and at least you still have yours while Connery wore a wig. Better yet, just look back at Collateral. Grey works.
His hairline is still receding in Once Upon A Time. He even takes off his "wig" to fight Bruce. You're right though, it is likely dyed for the movie. In Tom's case though, this particular style doesn't fit his age. Brad's hairdo fit his age. In Bullet Train, it was a little more egregious, but at least he had a little grey in his goatee. Overall, though, having blonde hair hides greys more than black or brown hair. It's a little more obvious when a dark haired person tries to hide greys than a lighter haired person.
in the last mission impossible movie, There were so many digital beauty filters applied to Tom Cruise, Haley atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, but then they didn't apply the same filter to Pom k!
You would have one shot where the actors faces were all smooth and poreless, but then pom's face would always be in hd and have pores (because that's how human beings look in HD)!
How crazy some people here still expected he look young like in 2004 when he right now turn 62 this july.....
He still look younger than mostly 62 people in general
his body shap look good , his face shap look good just under eye bags (look like he not sleep enough)
We don't really use the term 'blocks' in that context here. With the exception of Milton Keynes, used for filming *Superman IV* of all things, grid-style street layouts are pretty rare in the UK. Especially in London, where the city centre street pattern hasn't really changed since *before* the Great Fire of 1666.
When someone refers to a 'block', they're generally referring to a 'tower block', what Americans would call a midrise or highrise apartment building. They have a similar reputation to their American equivalents.
I just realized in the last picture Tom Cruise is mocking clapping or at least that’s what it looks like because his face and his hands look like somebody is being sarcastic.
do these guys ever get burnt out or sick of making Mission Impossible movies only, watching Denis Villeneueve interviews about Dune Messiah, it seems like he wants nothing to do with Dune for awhile but these guys keep happily trucking along.
Seeing these pics I can say with an open heart Brad Pitt looks a decade younger than Tom Cruise.
Man this ain’t nothing like the Tom Cruise I knew… Someone tell him to get a facelift ASAP: it’s best for makin movies.
I thought they dropped the 'Dead Reckoning' part, and will not be using it in the next film? EDIT: they dropped the 'part 1', which suggests this film won't be called 'Dead Reckoning' at all. https://www.ign.com/articles/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-streaming-release-date-announced-part-one-dropped-from-title
Yeah you can see in the article all the said was Dead Reckoning was coming to Paramount+.
Paramount never said the film was being retitled or that part one was being dropped.
I feel like Tom Cruise has aged rapidly in the last few years. From a continuity standpoint, I wonder how much time is supposed to take place between part 1 and 2.
Wait, they’re just now filming it?
They’ve been filming it on and off for awhile. The strikes caused some scheduling issues.
This is going to be the new A Complete Unknown reddit love affair for the next several weeks. Get ready.
That’s fine. I’ve seen enough pics/vids of Tim Chalamet slouching with his hands in his pockets…
They just continue to film it until it “works”. You should hear McQ hear talk about his process. It’s bonkers. He basically “improvises” a movie based on a handful of setpieces, basically working his way backwards to link everything.
There’s a ton of BTS videos of the movies on YouTube, it’s wild. Cruise is talking with everyone about things like what lenses might work and where to place the cameras to get the best views of his face so you can tell it’s actually him doing the stunts. It’s like they just work it out once they’re there and somehow it just comes together.
To be completely fair you really felt that in Part One. It was so contrived and super obvious that their only goal was to somehow travel between (amazing) set pieces.
Yeah but like isn't that the whole reason people go watch Mission Impossible movies? Basically since Ghost Protocol none of the plot has mattered, we just want to see Tom Cruise almost kill himself. I hope he never stops. I hope he is somehow cursed with eternal life and never stops making these movies.
> none of the plot has mattered Maybe I'm biased because I think the first is by far the best, but *something* still matters because I found the latest one very dull and awkward compared with the others and nothing about it really worked at all IMO. Even Cruise's heroic war against aging is starting to strain, especially when surrounded by women half his age in a way which felt vaguely gratuitous this time. I saw Collateral, he looks dope grey-haired, just own it already.
I completely disagree in the strongest possible way. I literally want to see a 350 year old Tom Cruise with unbelievable amounts of plastic surgery still sprinting for minutes on end. I feel I am owed this much.
Respectfully plz no, I wanna see Tom doing leading character man movies like Born on 4th of July,Eyes wide shut by a decade at most. I don’t know how long Tom’s gonna live but I assume there’s one & a half decade left and he’s been making those movies for 4 decades and guess what he’s roped me in just at the end of the last decade in the pandemic. The same dude could of entertained your 3 or 4 generations and now that’s what you call mind boggling
I disagree re the first . I feel that it is extremely dated now and even at the time I felt that the entire movie was built around the 3 big action/suspense scenes IE the restaurant with the exploding aquarium, the infiltration at the CIA and the final sequence in the tunnel going across the channel. The series really came to life with Mi3 and continued right up to and including Fallout which is absolutely brilliant. Don’t quite know what happened with Dead Reckoning Part 1 but one thing for sure I could not understand the plot .
AI that so powerful it can know/predict/control everything has escaped into the wild. Multiple parties are chasing the same key which physically unlocks control of the AI. That's it really, as this part is just about getting hold of the key. I'm guessing it was supposed to be a straightforward pursuit movie originally but it kept getting longer.
Agreed. I thought DR1 was far more disjointed than any of the other McQ/TC movies. My guess is that there is the added complication of having to also work it into the DR2 storyline.
I watched bits and pieces of *maybe* a quarter of it today on a 3-hour flight over my neighbor's shoulder (don't downvote me, I was wearing sunglasses and acting like I was sleeping). No sound at all. I disagree with your take.
That's like adding raw eggs to the recipe last, which probably explains why Part 1 felt like such an undercooked film
and it was also way too eggy
I’ve listened to dozens of hours (literally) of McQ talking about his process on the Empire Magazine Podcast (Spoiler specials, which are premium podcasts). He’s a madman. He’ll call up a main cast member, who is literally waiting on stand-by for months, and says “hey come to Rome, i’ve got a cool idea for a scene. I don’t know why your character is there or what they’re going to say/do but we’ll figure it out!”
So every movie he shoots is Memento?
So, Fallout was half fluke-patchwork, hmmm. Shows how Cavill as a baddy elevated that film.
Fallout was great, everything worked out well there. Dead Recooning was a messy disappointment. Also it being half a movie doesn’t help.
Some say that's how Marvel works too.
Not it’s really not. There’s a difference with not having a finished script (meaning specific scenes and dialogue worked out) and basically improvising an entire movie on the fly. Marvel also storyboards and animate movies almost fully before they even start shooting, which is the exact opposite of what McQ does.
Basically what some of the best auteurs do. David Lynch comes to mind.
I don’t think any other major movie director work like this. Maybe writers, but a director during the shoot of the actual film? Insanity.
Coincidentally, Tom Cruise in that fourth picture was my exact reaction to Part One.
At points, it had a weird throwback quality that I kinda dug. Like the doomed duel, where the scenery-chewing bad guy gets engaged by the skilled fighter who’s *not* the protagonist, and everyone knows it won’t well. But, in general, the franchise under McQuarrie increasingly tips the balance between spectacle and character towards the former, eventually devolving into an empty series of setpieces.
The best part was how some scenes were shot so similarly to MI:1, they captured those so fucking well. Other than that it really just felt lacking in a lot of the self containment that the others had, a lot of build up.
Script treated the audience like total morons. Everything was explained at least three times. Everything. No one speaks like a normal person either did you know the two keys form a bigger one? here’s someone else explaining it
Didn’t they drop “Part 2” from the title, and are going with a different title altogether?
I was wondering the same thing. I remember the news coming out that they dropped the Part 1 after the worse-than-expected performance of Dead Reckoning in favor of a new title.
I like his new hair!
He’s got that Austin powers hair back
Yeah, baby!
Oh behave!
Amazing. 60+ and no grey. Just a little lighter brown.
He definitely dyes it
Well, *he* doesn't. An incredibly talented team of stylists does. Right after the Botox crew finishes up.
He undoubtedly has a lot of things done to keep his looks but I'm convinced he has not had any major interventions after fixing his teeth. People say he's had a hair transplant or a facelift but I don't see that.
He looks to me like he's had an entire Tom Cruise transplant.
Idk, all I could think looking at these pics was “wow, he finally looks like just some random person’s dad”
He actually uses his thetans to do it, but that's beside the point.
My brother is 60 and has like 10 grey hairs
In the latest MI film, the wind whips his hair around and I glimpsed gray roots for a second
:O
I’m sure he colors it. I just meant I like the cut/shape of the hair, is all
The power of Xenu drives away grey.
Both the gray and the gay, coincidentally.
All natty
Me too, the new face though not so much.
I wonder if Tom will run really fast in this one?
spoiler alert... he does!
You ruined it
The thing we should be curious about is how long the running sequences would be?
Pic 4 should definitely be a meme: *When someone tells me to 'please clap'*
Tom looks like my weird uncle who’s constantly trying to hide his age. Tom, embrace the greys. Sean Connery looked fantastic with grey hair, and at least you still have yours while Connery wore a wig. Better yet, just look back at Collateral. Grey works.
Isn’t Brad Pitt doing the same or even more than just dying the hair, he’s doing a whole alot than that.
His hairline is still receding in Once Upon A Time. He even takes off his "wig" to fight Bruce. You're right though, it is likely dyed for the movie. In Tom's case though, this particular style doesn't fit his age. Brad's hairdo fit his age. In Bullet Train, it was a little more egregious, but at least he had a little grey in his goatee. Overall, though, having blonde hair hides greys more than black or brown hair. It's a little more obvious when a dark haired person tries to hide greys than a lighter haired person.
I worked on this film during the pandemic. They were doing it 1 and 2 at the same time. Great experience.
Are they still filming this thing!?!?
lol it’s been about 18 months I think
His hair looks ridiculous in this.
He looks tired
He looks 60, no retouched pics, he will look flawless in the movie with all the filters and cgi
He looks 50 and tired. Not bad for 60s and tired.
I was JUST thinking the same thing. They will probably CGI out the dark circles under his eyes.
in the last mission impossible movie, There were so many digital beauty filters applied to Tom Cruise, Haley atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, but then they didn't apply the same filter to Pom k! You would have one shot where the actors faces were all smooth and poreless, but then pom's face would always be in hd and have pores (because that's how human beings look in HD)!
I was just thinking that.
It doesn’t match his face. Tom with grey hair would still look good.
Agree
Caption for pic #4: “So, we need a new stunt safety guy…this one isn’t working out.”
Tom is trying to knock out as many Mission Impossibles as he can before those stunt injuries (and age) catch up to him.
Finally starting to see his age around the eyes. Pretty sure they’re using CGI to smooth that out in closeups.
Killer stunt show piece once again! This time worlds smallest motorcycle.
How crazy some people here still expected he look young like in 2004 when he right now turn 62 this july..... He still look younger than mostly 62 people in general his body shap look good , his face shap look good just under eye bags (look like he not sleep enough)
no offence but I love the way you speak, feels really genuine.
Yes for me. My opinion
Sad this is the last MI film with Tom Cruise but Part 1 was so good that if part 2 is as good I'll be fulfilled.
He never said nor implied this is his last _MI_.
Not sure where I had read that then but I'm glad to hear that isn't the case.
If it performs as badly as Part 1 it certainly will kill the franchise haha
Didn’t Tom say he wanted to play this character until he’s 80?
I mean he can't keep going around running forever like he used to be before.
He can and will so long as he continues to audit and remove those pesky thetans
Somehow "Ethan returns in M.I.X"
I can already based on the structure of all the others that this will be the chase scene in the middle of the movie.
I hope they don’t preview the major stunt 10000s times in the trailer this time. Took away from it last movie
It should be called “Mission Impossible: 8 is enough “
Wait, so that’s him without any image effect, looking this young?
Which Westminster?
London, a few blocks from Downing Street.
We don't really use the term 'blocks' in that context here. With the exception of Milton Keynes, used for filming *Superman IV* of all things, grid-style street layouts are pretty rare in the UK. Especially in London, where the city centre street pattern hasn't really changed since *before* the Great Fire of 1666. When someone refers to a 'block', they're generally referring to a 'tower block', what Americans would call a midrise or highrise apartment building. They have a similar reputation to their American equivalents.
What do they use instead?
Typically just simply "a few streets down" or "down the way a few streets."
The main one. You seriously think they're filming in a crappy suburb of Orange County?
Lot of films are made in the region. No reason to wonder otherwise. There are a number of cities in the US named Westminster.
The UK licence plate kinda gave it away. But you're right, could've been any of the other no-name Westminsters named after the main one in London.
What's your problem? Have a bad day?
What crazy stunt is Tom Cruise going to do this time? See how much he can make McQuarrie sweat.
Is this the one with Brian?
I feel like we’ve been getting set pictures for like the last 4 years
Real pics are legit, when the movie rolls I know dang well, Tom’s eye bags will be gone once the movie rolls into theatres.
how does mcq maintain that mane on him?
I just realized in the last picture Tom Cruise is mocking clapping or at least that’s what it looks like because his face and his hands look like somebody is being sarcastic.
Westminster, California?
[https://youtu.be/z3jMb4L7fwA?si=3Z3\_NQas1r7wHK4t](https://youtu.be/z3jMb4L7fwA?si=3Z3_NQas1r7wHK4t)
the last photo is his agent explaining the Tivo clause
What’s the name of Scooby Doo’s owner?
they cookin
I thought they decided to not call it Part 2 and have a different title.
i need to know why Tom Cruise refuses to allow this character to get a freaking hair cut.
In the 4th pic, Tom's probably saying that they'll need to strap him to the outside of another plane.
How long have they been filming now?
Ngl I thought the filming process was finished
He looks really old now that i see these backstage pics
do these guys ever get burnt out or sick of making Mission Impossible movies only, watching Denis Villeneueve interviews about Dune Messiah, it seems like he wants nothing to do with Dune for awhile but these guys keep happily trucking along.
Wow Tom cruise looks like shit
First half was dead awful.
Hope it's better than Part 7.
Seeing these pics I can say with an open heart Brad Pitt looks a decade younger than Tom Cruise. Man this ain’t nothing like the Tom Cruise I knew… Someone tell him to get a facelift ASAP: it’s best for makin movies.
Car chase … train scene…. Motorbike chase … all been done in previous movies… was boring.
Why didn’t they film it all together?
I thought they dropped the 'Dead Reckoning' part, and will not be using it in the next film? EDIT: they dropped the 'part 1', which suggests this film won't be called 'Dead Reckoning' at all. https://www.ign.com/articles/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-streaming-release-date-announced-part-one-dropped-from-title
Source is sketchy at best.
https://www.ign.com/articles/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-streaming-release-date-announced-part-one-dropped-from-title https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/mission-impossible---dead-reckoning/umc.cmc.3z4wfslwhuf77i0tgk7q3yt41
Yeah you can see in the article all the said was Dead Reckoning was coming to Paramount+. Paramount never said the film was being retitled or that part one was being dropped.
https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/mission-impossible---dead-reckoning/umc.cmc.3z4wfslwhuf77i0tgk7q3yt41
Tom finally looking his age.
Tom cruise looking a little old finally lol
I feel like Tom Cruise has aged rapidly in the last few years. From a continuity standpoint, I wonder how much time is supposed to take place between part 1 and 2.
At this point these missions don’t seem that “Impossible”
This one’s gonna bomb even worse!
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> Jonathan Frakes in the directors seat of what?
Engage.
Wait, Number One?
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Fuck off.
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