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Go behind-the-scenes of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning’s spectacular train set-piece

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“No one else in the world is doing this level of practical filmmaking” claims Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie, who’s introducing a behind-the-scenes look at one of the film’s many spectacular stunts.  The train sequence, which makes up the breath-taking finale of the blockbuster sequel, was filmed on top of a carriage that […]

Tom Cruise goes speedflying in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One featurette

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Paramount Pictures has released a new feature for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which takes us behind the scenes of the blockbuster and sees director Christopher McQuarrie, Skydive coordinator Jon Devore and star Tom Cruise discussing the film’s dangerous speedflying stunt sequence; watch it below… In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, […]

Christopher McQuarrie admits they don’t know the end of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two yet

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As we are weeks away from Dead Reckoning Part One, the filmmaker behind the latest Mission: Impossible is still crafting the conclusion to its follow-up Dead Reckoning Part Two, due to arrive next year. With around a year to go, Christopher McQuarrie says he and star Tom Cruise have yet to figure out how they’ll […]

Tom Cruise vs. Keanu Reeves: Who will be 2023’s King of Action?

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Tom Jolliffe previews what promises to be a stellar year for action cinema as two titans bring franchise heavy-hitters to the table… As far as films have gone, 2022 was pretty damn stellar. It’s the first year in a long time where I can honestly say I’ll struggle to put a top ten together. It’s […]

Hannah Waddingham joins Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 2

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Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two has gotten slightly bigger as the director has announced on social media that Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso) has joined the cast of the Tom Cruise-led spy film. Details on Waddingham’s character were not revealed as both films, which have been shooting back-to-back for several years now, have kept […]

Tom Cruise rides a motorcycle off a cliff in mind-blowing Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning featurette

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You literally can’t go an entire day without a death-defying stunt performed by Tom Cruise. Earlier on he was falling backwards out of a plane to thank audiences for the way they embraced Tom Gun: Maverick, and now the big-screen saviour is at it again in this mind-boggling behind-the-scenes featurette in which he leaps from […]

Tom Cruise teases another death-defying airborne stunt for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

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Tom Cruise is no stranger to performing crazy stunts on any number of his films and he just teased another major death-defying airborne stunt for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Part Two. In the video, Cruise is seen in a helicopter and thanks fans for their support for Top Gun: Maverick’s huge success along with the […]

Henry Cavill and Alec Baldwin may return for Mission: Impossible sequels

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Last week it was reported that Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Mission: Impossible – Fallout director Christopher McQuarrie has signed on to reunite with Tom Cruise for two more instalments in the blockbuster spy series, which will be shot back-to-back for release in 2021 and 2022 respectively. While we can assume that Cruise’s Ethan […]

Mission: Impossible 6 will feature multiple death-defying Tom Cruise stunts

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Spider-Man sure does whatever a spider can, and so does Tom Cruise who has a seemingly addictive habit of staring death in the face during many of his risky yet spectacularly entertaining Mission: Impossible stunts. Generally, each movie contains one massively dangerous action sequence (think of Cruise darting across that plane for real in Mission: […]

Christopher McQuarrie teases major Mission: Impossible 6 stunt sequence

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The Mission: Impossible series has become well known for its jaw-dropping stunt set pieces, and with the currently-in-production sixth instalment, director Christopher McQuarrie has promised something that will top the insanity of the Burj Khalifa and plane sequences in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. What this sequence we don’t […]