The blockbuster sequel has been in the ether for several years, and Tom Cruise has given an update on the sequel’s progress while doing the rounds for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.
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“It has got to be useful”. I don’t want any [computer-simulated] jets. Tom, who played Naval fighter pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, said filming a sequel would be “fun”. Get the gang back together, find out what’s going on with the International Monetary Fund and all that.
To prepare Cruise for an underwater scene in which he’d be holding his breath for over six minutes, Eastwood brought in a freediving record holder to teach the actor breathing exercises.
However, it’s Cruise’s determined drive, that has kept the Mission franchise running since 1996’s Mission: Impossible, a film that launched him into the grown-up zone.
Collider interviewed Skydance Productions CEO David Ellison last month, who confirmed pre-production for the sequel was already underway, incorporating Bruckheimer’s storyline of the almost obsolete naval aviation pilots battling for relevancy against the ubiquitous drones.
One of the things I loved about the latest instalment is how much more action and screen time we see from Simon Pegg’s character Benji Dunn. >Reuters he’d totally be game for “Top Gun 2,” as long as the studio meets one condition.
Harris makes an excellent adversary, smart and ruthless and a bit twitchy, He alone takes no part in the stunts; evil geniuses have never enjoyed getting their hands dirty. “It was just very long takes… and we wanted to do it practical (sic)”.
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As both an enormous movie star and the de facto face of Scientology, Tom Cruise is a true object of national fascination. Ghost Protocol saw Hunt and his team forced to go “off the grid” as they continued their ever-so-important missions, due to the growing doubts about their necessity and competence of the Central Intelligence Agency and even higher American government officials.
