It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
"After two massive bombs this past year, this studio is really desperate for a hit. They have a franchise that is solid gold but has run into big issues while filming in Europe. They got shut down in Rome and had to rebuild part of Rome on a soundstage which was ridiculously expensive. The head of the studio's European division hired two "producers," one of whom is the mistress of the President of a country. Yes, he calls her his stylist, but please. The studio and the producers want to blow up a bridge. These two "producers" with the connection to the President of the country are supposed to help. The bridge is 100 years old. The town where it is located told the studio to go to hell and gave it a higher conservation level just to make sure it couldn't be blown up. So, the studio threw even more money at the federal government and President of the country. They want to blow up the bridge. The President gave permission to blow up the bridge and work has begun to blow it up. The head prosecutor in the country is investigating the bribes and corruption but will probably be bribed themselves. The studio also paid to make sure no negative stories about the bridge or even stories about the bridge show up in the media. When the A list mostly movie actor makes his rounds of the the talk show circuit to promote it, do you think anyone will ask him about it? Nope. They are all cowards."
Paramount/Mission Impossible/Poland/Tom Cruise
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2020/07/blind-items-revealed-22.html
Well McQuarrie always uses the location to determine what happens there, so that suggests they have a specific location in mind for something. I guess it might have something to do with that sort of parachute sports that Cruise was seen practising..?
I might remember wrong, but I think McQuarrie visited several Norwegian locations before filming Fallout. Could be that they just decided on going back to a location they liked back then.
Yes that's what he does: he literally doesn't have a story and just looks for locations and lets the scenes grow from them. Seems bonkers to me but it seems to work! :)
Had to google to check. Here's an article covering McQuarrie's (then) recent visit to Norway, with Rob Hardy. Maybe they have one of these locations in mind. The fact that they're looking to shoot in Western Norway fits well with the locations they visited back then.
______
Re. using locations and letting the scenes grow from them; I think that's an interesting approach really! It helps to have something visual to work with. :-)
Reportedly, there's a whole 15-minute segment from Rogue Nation where Tom Cruise got captured by Alec Baldwin and escaped from a CIA building that had to be entirely dropped due to the on-the-fly rewrites.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/amp33247187/thandie-newton-tom-cruise-mission-impossible-2/
I am a perfectionist and can be a control freak, I understand Tom wanting to do as much as he can himself, because he knows he can do it better than anyone else.
That’s very interesting!
Now available on Youtube.....enjoy....
This is great, thank you.
McQ of course have luxery to be only writer on those movies and my opnion is if you writing a script you must have directer/studio who agree about some of you wishes. Tom Cruise, Paramount and McQ sound like a good team like MGM, Eon and P&W / Sam Mendes and John Logan.
and boy was I pissed that he didnt get it but if Cary can deliver I hope he can provide more bond films
Universal Pictures is in negotiations to land Tom Cruise’s new film, a project set to make history as the first narrative feature shot in space.
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/universal-circling-tom-cruise-doug-liman-film-to-shoot-in-space-exclusive-1234713658/
(*NTTD received 47 million kroner through the same incentive scheme)
https://www.vg.no/rampelys/film/i/8mrEO2/tom-cruise-faar-unntak-fra-regjeringen-kommer-til-norge
It also looks like they will be shooting scenes in Møre and Romsdal, the same county where they shot the Atlantic Road sequence for NTTD.
Tom Cruise is Abid Raja s god. Interesting.
:))