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Whether that’s the case or not, Renner doesn’t hold a candle to Cruise; had the torch been passed to him the flame of the franchise would have probably been extinguished.
But once Cruise is actually finished, I hope the franchise goes back to its roots with a new tv series, with an emphasis on an ensemble cast doing sneaking missions. No more motorcycle chases or Evel Knievel stunt gimmickry.
Yes he hadn't quite killed the Bourne series at that point!
Oh no thanks: that would kill the movie prestige the series has built up. If I were Cruise I'd absolutely make sure they don't do that.
Yeah I think it would only disappoint people, really. The MI TV show was really a mini heist movie every week: better to keep it as actual movies now it has made it.
The franchise existed before Tom Cruise came along, and it will keep existing well after him.
The reason I think going back to TV is more desirable is because it’ll reset expectations on what the franchise will be post-Cruise. Instead of trying to find the next Tom Cruise (good luck), you could focus more on the ensemble of characters so there’s no obvious replacement of a star. The movies could probably do that as well, but I think a TV series would be a cleaner break.
Given that we live in an era of prestige TV, that shouldn’t be an issue. I highly doubt a new M:I TV series will just be a recreation of the original. They would definitely have to update it to modern standards. Perhaps have a mission that overlaps three episodes or two.
It's not that I wouldn't watch it, I just doubt enough people would. Maybe further down the line, it's a possibility. But the Mission: Impossible brand is now ingrained with Cruise's DNA because of the films, and there's just no getting away from that.
Going back to a series format in the near future just reeks of a "cancelled after one season" reception to me.
rebooting will be as difficult as a rebooting a post Craig Bond.
And his stunt work is not in the least gimmicky, it’s giving 110% and unparalleled authenticity.
It’s not a very appealing prospect. It’s hard to imagine it being anything but a downgrade.
It feels gimmicky when Cruise does it, IMO. “Watch me, Tom Cruise, the movie star, do the next CRRRAAAZY stunt!” and the proceeds to ruin it by putting it all over the marketing.
I saw an IMAX presentation of AVATAR 2 and prior to that there was an entire featurette dedicated to behind the scenes footage of the bike stunt. When it came to an end, I thought to myself that the bike stunt would have been a lot more fun to see for the first time in the proper film, rather than a behind the scenes special.
I don’t see it that way in the least. I see an incredibly talented actor who is willing to go further than any other actor. The result is that the audience sees the actual star doing physical acting in a real environment. That is not a gimmick, it’s authenticity.
It would, but it’s marketing.
I want it to end with:
THE END
OF
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART I.
BUT ETHAN HUNT WILL BE BACK IN
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART II.
I 100% approve.
It all depends on how you view it.
Yep…
It reminds me of what Timothy Dalton once said when he was being interviewed about his James Bond stunts.
"If you take a particular [action sequence] in the film and everyone in the audience says 'that wasn't Timothy Dalton, that was his stunt-man' it takes the believability away from the moment. On the other hand if they say 'oh Timothy Dalton did his own stunt' that's bad for the movie too. The audience should quite simply believe that the man, the character that they're watching, James Bond, does them."
I do feel Tom Cruises' stunts fall into the latter category. It's one of the reasons why the later MI movies don't actually do much for me.
How are Henry Czerny and Vanessa Kirby mentioned but not Morales? Weird.
The highest compliment you can give a stuntman is if the audience wonder if they saw the star do a stunt, because that means the stuntmen did their job right.
Of course with Bond that is spotty in the Moore run. I put that more on the filmmakers not doing their job to mask the stuntmen right like in AVTAK where Bond drives half a car.
Funnily, I think they do a great job with Moore’s double in the MR pre-titles, because he kind of looks like Moore when in motion. Yet at the same time the guy doubling for Jaws is too glaringly NOT Richard Kiel.
It’s a far cry from the most recent films where the stunt doubles are wearing prosthetics to look like Craig.