“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’s” infamous train scene was meant to take place aboard the Orient Express, as it roars through the Swiss Alps; which for production is a big request if you’re not shooting on location.
“We scouted a few places and ended up in Norway,” says the film’s cinematographer Fraser Taggart who also worked on “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.”
For practicality, Norway ended up being the perfect location. Not only did Taggart have a good relationship with Norway after “we filmed ‘Fallout’ there, the train scene and location needed to work with the motorcycle jump, but we found a railway in Norway from where we were going to shoot the motorcycle jump, and it all worked out.” In the film, Tom Cruise performed a stunt that has been billed as the most death-defying one of his acting career thus far. He rides a...
“We scouted a few places and ended up in Norway,” says the film’s cinematographer Fraser Taggart who also worked on “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.”
For practicality, Norway ended up being the perfect location. Not only did Taggart have a good relationship with Norway after “we filmed ‘Fallout’ there, the train scene and location needed to work with the motorcycle jump, but we found a railway in Norway from where we were going to shoot the motorcycle jump, and it all worked out.” In the film, Tom Cruise performed a stunt that has been billed as the most death-defying one of his acting career thus far. He rides a...
- 1/14/2024
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
The "Mission: Impossible" film series has an established reputation for upping the ante in numerous ways. For starters, there's that title; as Anthony Hopkins' Swanbeck says in "M:i 2," the tasks undertaken by the Impossible Mission Force are not referred to as "Mission: Difficult." Then there's the bar for stunt work that's constantly being raised by the series' star and producer, Tom Cruise, one that keeps getting higher with each successive entry in the franchise.
All that is to say that it's no surprise to hear that the making of the latest installment, "Dead Reckoning Part One" (if that subtitle is still applicable), involved a lot of dangerous elements. What is a little surprising, however, is that not only were stunt people, actors, sets, props and other things in front of the camera put in danger, but the cameras and footage itself were, too.
Usually, stunts and the like are...
All that is to say that it's no surprise to hear that the making of the latest installment, "Dead Reckoning Part One" (if that subtitle is still applicable), involved a lot of dangerous elements. What is a little surprising, however, is that not only were stunt people, actors, sets, props and other things in front of the camera put in danger, but the cameras and footage itself were, too.
Usually, stunts and the like are...
- 10/31/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
At five of the last 10 Oscars, Best Cinematography has gone hand-in-hand with Best Director: Emmanuel Lubezki and Alfonso Cuaron for “Gravity” (2014); Lubezki and Alejandro G. Inarritu for both “Birdman” (2015) and “The Revenant” (2016); Linus Sandgren and Damien Chazelle for “La La Land” (2017); and Cuaron doing double duty on “Roma” (2019). Will that trend hold true this year? (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2024 Oscar predictions for Best Cinematography.)
The academy usually regards award-winning cinematography as pretty pictures within an epic technical feat of filmmaking. While great lighting and framing are laudable on their own, having a movie that looks like it was difficult to shoot goes a long way to snagging an Oscar. Recent lensing winners “Avatar” (2009), “Inception” (2010), “Hugo” (2011), “Life of Pi” (2012), “Gravity” (2013), “Blade Runner 2049” (2018) and “1917” (2020) also took home the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
While the lensers of “Inception” and “Gravity” first prevailed at the American Society of Cinematographers Awards,...
The academy usually regards award-winning cinematography as pretty pictures within an epic technical feat of filmmaking. While great lighting and framing are laudable on their own, having a movie that looks like it was difficult to shoot goes a long way to snagging an Oscar. Recent lensing winners “Avatar” (2009), “Inception” (2010), “Hugo” (2011), “Life of Pi” (2012), “Gravity” (2013), “Blade Runner 2049” (2018) and “1917” (2020) also took home the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
While the lensers of “Inception” and “Gravity” first prevailed at the American Society of Cinematographers Awards,...
- 9/12/2023
- by Paul Sheehan and Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Plot: Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is back in a battle against “The Entity,” a state-of-the-art, self-aware AI that threatens to topple the world’s government. Battling an old foe (Esai Morales) for a key that The Entity wants, Hunt has to recruit his old team, plus a master pickpocket (Hayley Atwell) for his most impossible mission yet.
Review: One has to give Tom Cruise and his director Christopher McQuarrie credit. The two consistently push the envelope, and in each other, the two have found kindred spirits bent on delivering the type of old-school thrills you don’t see anymore. After watching the latest Indiana Jones lose its soul in a sea of CGI and the various superhero movies, it’s a treat to see Cruise and McQuarrie doing real, cutting-edge practical action with some legitimate stakes. When people die, they stay dead, and as invincible as Cruise’s Ethan Hunt may seem,...
Review: One has to give Tom Cruise and his director Christopher McQuarrie credit. The two consistently push the envelope, and in each other, the two have found kindred spirits bent on delivering the type of old-school thrills you don’t see anymore. After watching the latest Indiana Jones lose its soul in a sea of CGI and the various superhero movies, it’s a treat to see Cruise and McQuarrie doing real, cutting-edge practical action with some legitimate stakes. When people die, they stay dead, and as invincible as Cruise’s Ethan Hunt may seem,...
- 7/11/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
For a film series that has included seven entries (to date) and spanned nearly three decades, the “Mission: Impossible” films starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt have proven themselves to be one of the more enduring and popular franchises of all time. The latest in the series, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, succeeds in spades, giving the property not only fresh and vibrant feel, but perhaps the best offering since the impossible missions first began.
Once again, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team find themselves on a harrowing mission with the safety of the entire world in the balance. This time out, the threat comes from an advanced artificial intelligence that has determined that the best course of action to save humanity is to assume control of it. Now, with only his team to count on, Hunt must keep control of the AI out of the hands...
Once again, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team find themselves on a harrowing mission with the safety of the entire world in the balance. This time out, the threat comes from an advanced artificial intelligence that has determined that the best course of action to save humanity is to assume control of it. Now, with only his team to count on, Hunt must keep control of the AI out of the hands...
- 7/10/2023
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
New Delhi, July 10 (Ians) In their seventh outing Ethan Hunt and his Imf team are back with a bang in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1, and have an onerous task of tracking down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
Transformed from the budgetary limitations of the original television series into a hugely profitable franchise, this latest addition is a magnificently spectacular and awe-inspiring 164 minutes of edge-of-the-seat actioner. Its pulse-racing stunts are so dazzling that they have an endless appeal with the starry presence of Tom Cruise who, undoubtedly, is the highlight of the movie.
Its plot has a unique spirit. It is steeped in nature, which sets it apart from all other jumbo budget movies of this genre, and so, there’s no point in looking for deeper meanings or analysing the holes in this nail-biting spectacle.
It’s blockbuster escapism fare with which it has...
Transformed from the budgetary limitations of the original television series into a hugely profitable franchise, this latest addition is a magnificently spectacular and awe-inspiring 164 minutes of edge-of-the-seat actioner. Its pulse-racing stunts are so dazzling that they have an endless appeal with the starry presence of Tom Cruise who, undoubtedly, is the highlight of the movie.
Its plot has a unique spirit. It is steeped in nature, which sets it apart from all other jumbo budget movies of this genre, and so, there’s no point in looking for deeper meanings or analysing the holes in this nail-biting spectacle.
It’s blockbuster escapism fare with which it has...
- 7/10/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
With a production that ended as quietly as it began, Alex Garland has followed up Ex Machina and Annihilation with Men, a smaller-scale horror starring Jessie Buckley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things) and Rory Kinnear (Peterloo). An original script by Garland, the A24 production follows a young woman who goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside after the death of her ex-husband.
Courtesy of cinematographer Rob Hardy, who reteams with Garland after his first two features as well as Devs, he’s shared some behind-the-scenes snaps. Featuring a glimpse of the countryside location as well as Buckley (at least from a distance), and more, Hardy also notes to “prepare for something truly extraordinary, and reassuringly weird.”
Though he didn’t return to shooting Mission: Impossible after Fallout––with Fraser Taggart stepping up as cinematographer––Hardy’s next work will be seen in Kevin Hart-Woody Harrelson action-comedy...
Courtesy of cinematographer Rob Hardy, who reteams with Garland after his first two features as well as Devs, he’s shared some behind-the-scenes snaps. Featuring a glimpse of the countryside location as well as Buckley (at least from a distance), and more, Hardy also notes to “prepare for something truly extraordinary, and reassuringly weird.”
Though he didn’t return to shooting Mission: Impossible after Fallout––with Fraser Taggart stepping up as cinematographer––Hardy’s next work will be seen in Kevin Hart-Woody Harrelson action-comedy...
- 5/24/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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