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  • patbpatb
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    Some great banter recently with McQuarrie via Twitter re peoples favourite movies featuring trains. He's a big Burt Lancaster fan (who isn't?) and clearly loves action movies.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Benny wrote: »
    Has this been posted yet?
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-56846467
    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/movies/mission-derbyshire-train-track-teetering-over-quarry-thought-to-be-set-for-new-tom-cruise-film/ar-BB1g2nYg?ocid=uxbndlbing
    Looks like the train sequence is going to be a major set piece.

    Unless I'm misjudging the images I've seen, the vibe I'm getting is:
    Tom will battle the main villain atop the train, alongside some others, perhaps, with the train eventually going over a broken track and off a cliff.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Benny wrote: »
    Has this been posted yet?
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-56846467
    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/movies/mission-derbyshire-train-track-teetering-over-quarry-thought-to-be-set-for-new-tom-cruise-film/ar-BB1g2nYg?ocid=uxbndlbing
    Looks like the train sequence is going to be a major set piece.

    Unless I'm misjudging the images I've seen, the vibe I'm getting is:
    Tom will battle the main villain atop the train, alongside some others, perhaps, with the train eventually going over a broken track and off a cliff.

    A small homage to the first movie’s climax, perhaps? History repeats itself!
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    edited April 2021 Posts: 40,968
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Benny wrote: »
    Has this been posted yet?
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-56846467
    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/movies/mission-derbyshire-train-track-teetering-over-quarry-thought-to-be-set-for-new-tom-cruise-film/ar-BB1g2nYg?ocid=uxbndlbing
    Looks like the train sequence is going to be a major set piece.

    Unless I'm misjudging the images I've seen, the vibe I'm getting is:
    Tom will battle the main villain atop the train, alongside some others, perhaps, with the train eventually going over a broken track and off a cliff.

    A small homage to the first movie’s climax, perhaps? History repeats itself!

    Combine that with Kittridge's return and I do believe so!
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Looks to be shaping up nicely and with Tom even saving a cameraman during filming.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    patb wrote: »
    Some great banter recently with McQuarrie via Twitter re peoples favourite movies featuring trains. He's a big Burt Lancaster fan (who isn't?) and clearly loves action movies.

    Yes I saw he rates The Train very highly, which I only saw recently for the first time and is a real cracker.
  • patbpatb
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    Lancaster was an earlier version of Cruise, a talented actor with superb ability with his own stunts.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited April 2021 Posts: 16,368
    patb wrote: »
    Lancaster was an earlier version of Cruise, a talented actor with superb ability with his own stunts.

    Yes I'd forgotten, when I was watching it there were a couple of things Lancaster does in that film which were really pretty dangerous. At one point he runs alongside a moving train and jumps onto it: if you get that wrong that could end very badly!
  • Since62Since62
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    Burt Lancaster performed in his early, pre-film acting career, in the 1930s, as a circus acrobat. Interestingly, he appeared in the 1956 film Trapeze, which was about an American circus. The director was Carol Reed, as in Sir Carol Reed, and Englishman, who won the Academy Award for directing 1968's Oliver! (exclamation point included in the title). Tony Curtis also appeared in Trapeze. The same TC who appeared in The Persuaders! -- exclamation point ALSO in the title; see the trend here ? -- with Roger Moore, which ran 24 episodes, filmed in 1970 and 1971 in Britain, France and Italy. And what did Roger Moore as Bond do in Octopussy ? Performed in...a...circus.
  • Risico007Risico007
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    So we still don’t have title for Mi7
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Risico007 wrote: »
    So we still don’t have title for Mi7

    We don't, sadly. McQuarrie has been sprinkling out BTS shots and random images here and there, I'm sure we'll get a proper title, teaser and everything else before the year ends.
  • Since62Since62
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    Call it MI: Saturday...7th day of the week...No ? MI: July...7th month...No ? Seriously, though, they might just call it MI7. The first three were

    Mission: Impossible
    Mission: Impossible 2
    Mission: Impossible III

    then the next three had names:

    Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    Mission: Impossible - Fallout

    At this point, as my exceedingly lame joke at the top of this post shows, coming up with a name might be the impossible mission, so maybe they follow the numbers sequencing (3 with numbers, 3 with names, and now...) and go back to numerical designations. I hope not, though. They started out excellently with the first one, dipped quite low with the John Woo indulgence-fest in "2", and started out very strong again with III. The named ones have just gotten better and better.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    How about: Mission Impossible - Time Enough
  • Jordo007Jordo007 Merseyside
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    I think they will give it a name, franchise movies don't like to go past the second sequel without a title. Something about general audiences believing that sequels aren't as good, although in MI's case the last 3 have been the best 3 of the franchise
    I think it's more intriguing with a title myself
  • patbpatb
    edited April 2021 Posts: 4,615
    Huge fan of McQuarrie but I do wonder how long you can keep going re thinking of great stunts and then building a plot around them. Once people get over the stunt, punters do love a great , intriquing plot and nothing has come close to the first movie in that dept and, to me, it gives it real long lasting appeal.
    PS one fan on twitter mentioned the idea of a character having a mask from the beginning of the movie and only revealing it much later on in the movie. This offers some huge plot twists and possibilities. Also, am I right that, so far, only male charaters have used the mask trick?
  • Jordo007Jordo007 Merseyside
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    patb wrote: »
    Huge fan of McQuarrie but I do wonder how long you can keep going re thinking of great stunts and then building a plot around them. Once people get over the stunt, punters do love a great , intriquing plot and nothing has come close to the first movie in that dept and, to me, it gives it real long lasting appeal.
    PS one fan on twitter mentioned the idea of a character having a mask from the beginning of the movie and only revealing it much later on in the movie. This offers some huge plot twists and possibilities. Also, am I right that, so far, only male charaters have used the mask trick?

    Yeah that's a cool idea mate
    At the start of MI3 that random woman had a mask of Ethan's wife on. Amazing start to that movie by the way
  • patbpatb
    edited April 2021 Posts: 4,615
    I have theory that Ethan will "die" at the end of this double bill but the mask enables Cruise to return to a later movie. Imagine Hunt appearing from the beginning of MI 9 so the audience feel safe and secure that he is back and then the shock later in the film. There could be all kinds of reasonable plot explanationsas to why the team needed him back. Or do the team really think it's him? So many possibilities
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited April 2021 Posts: 16,368
    Jordo007 wrote: »
    I think they will give it a name, franchise movies don't like to go past the second sequel without a title. Something about general audiences believing that sequels aren't as good, although in MI's case the last 3 have been the best 3 of the franchise
    I think it's more intriguing with a title myself

    Yeah I quite like the titles. I always mix up Rogue Nation and Ghost Protocol though because their names are so similar! :D Fallout is nice and punchy.
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
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    patb wrote: »
    Huge fan of McQuarrie but I do wonder how long you can keep going re thinking of great stunts and then building a plot around them. Once people get over the stunt, punters do love a great , intriquing plot and nothing has come close to the first movie in that dept and, to me, it gives it real long lasting appeal.

    I actually very much agree with you on this one, though I would say that Rogue Nation isn't too far behind the first in terms of having an intriguing plot with good characters.

    Fallout was able to get away with being an action extravaganza as it was bringing things back and tying them together (in a very good way, I feel) rather than trying something new for the most part. The next one will likely be a different kind of film again.
  • patbpatb
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    McQ has already said via twitter that he has 2 or 3 stunts for MI 8 and the plot is built around them. Of course, you can have both but it makes the job of plotting so much harder.
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
    edited April 2021 Posts: 8,216
    I suppose if you don't make it too convoluted, it's easier to pull off than one might think. Plus, I'm sure if it got to the stage where they were genuinely struggling to make a plot work because of the inclusion of a stunt then they would alter the stunt or replace it with something else.

    It's not the same circumstances, of course, but they came up with the Paris motorbike chase pretty much on the fly in the last one. So the action can always be tweaked, even late in the day.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    patb wrote: »
    McQ has already said via twitter that he has 2 or 3 stunts for MI 8 and the plot is built around them. Of course, you can have both but it makes the job of plotting so much harder.

    I think he has confidence in his own abilities: he's very adept at connecting dots and finding satisfying reasons for them. He never has a finished script before he starts shooting these and doesn't even write the scenes before he's found good locations to set them in. Sounds kind of crazy to me but it works for him.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Tom Cruise graces the cover of the latest issue of Empire Magazine:

  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    That's a good photo: so there's a bit of a stunty sequence leading up to his parachute jump by the looks of it.

    That's an impressive enough stunt on its own, really! I certainly can't jump a motorbike that high :D
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    Ya gotta love Tom Cruises gung ho attitude to film making!!!!! \m/ :-bd
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    The photo of him on the train is maybe one of the best promo photos I've ever seen :D

    tom-cruise-train-hero.jpg?format=jpg&quality=80&width=1800&ratio=16-9&resize=aspectfill

    https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/tom-cruise-mission-impossible-7-saving-cinema/
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    That, is a cool shot.
  • DenbighDenbigh UK
    edited May 2021 Posts: 5,970
    It reminds of the train sequence from Knight and Day, that film he did with Cameron Diaz which is actually good imo, although probably more of a guilty pleasure :D
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    Denbigh wrote: »
    It reminds of the train sequence from Knight and Day, that film he did with Cameron Diaz which is actually good imo, although probably more of a guilty pleasure :D

    I love that film! Watch it every year at least once.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »
    Denbigh wrote: »
    It reminds of the train sequence from Knight and Day, that film he did with Cameron Diaz which is actually good imo, although probably more of a guilty pleasure :D

    I love that film! Watch it every year at least once.

    I also love it. Damn good entertainment.
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