News Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 TRAILER released
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Looks awesome. Love the remix of the main theme, and that musical build up to the silent jump is fantastic.
I have no idea why Hunt keeps working for the IMF when they constantly disavow him and his team, don't trust them no matter how many times they've saved the world, or just outright act as adversaries or a hindrance to the mission. Now they've got Director Dickhead from the first movie to give Hunt more shit. I'd just say "Fuck you, man. I'll do this myself" which is what he almost always ends up having to do anyway because the IMF has trust issues.
Although, I guess since half the bad guys turn out to be former IMF or other agents gone rogue, maybe they have a point. Or maybe they should vet their agents better.
I hope Rebecca Ferguson's Ilsa is just straight on their side the whole time instead of having to play both sides or having conflicting motives again.
I have no idea why Hunt keeps working for the IMF when they constantly disavow him and his team, don't trust them no matter how many times they've saved the world, or just outright act as adversaries or a hindrance to the mission. Now they've got Director Dickhead from the first movie to give Hunt more shit. I'd just say "Fuck you, man. I'll do this myself" which is what he almost always ends up having to do anyway because the IMF has trust issues.
Although, I guess since half the bad guys turn out to be former IMF or other agents gone rogue, maybe they have a point. Or maybe they should vet their agents better.
I hope Rebecca Ferguson's Ilsa is just straight on their side the whole time instead of having to play both sides or having conflicting motives again.
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I love this series and I think it just keeps getting better. The small caveat is that I don’t think 5 (Rogue Nation) was quite as good as 4 (Ghost Protocol) but 6 (Fallout) was better than either. I love how they’re bringing this full circle by bringing back Hunt’s antagonist from the first film. I wish I was watching this movie in 5 seconds…
It’s outdoing modern Bond I would say. The last few of those movies haven’t been as interesting as these movies.
I was thinking the same thing, from the trailer it looks like she's an actual member of the IMF team.
The trailer was awesome, and these movies have been great lately, so I'm really excited for this one.
I think this is one of the few series, other than maybe Fast/Furious, where the later movies have actually been better than the early ones.
The scenes with the horses out in the desert would probably explain why Pom Klementieff and Hayley Atwell both posted pictures from the same horse ranch on Instagram while they were filming.
Character posters for Dead Reckoning: Part I:
https://twitter.com/MissionFilm/status/1668604331359342593
They include Pom Klementieff as a character named Paris and Shea Whigham as a character named Briggs. This seems to confirm what Rogue Nation implied in 2015 when it said the IMF was only 40 years old: The movie series is a reboot of the 1966-73 TV series, not a sequel. Which means that the much-reviled version of "Jim Phelps" in the original movie was not "our" Jim Phelps, just another character of the same name, like Paris and Briggs here. (Well, unless it turns out that these are the children/grandchildren of the original characters. Although I kinda figure "The Great Paris" was a stage name.)
I remember hearing an early rumor a couple of years back that there would be characters in the 2-part film named Rollin Hand and Lambert. Did they change that, or are they going to be in Part 2?
https://twitter.com/MissionFilm/status/1668604331359342593
They include Pom Klementieff as a character named Paris and Shea Whigham as a character named Briggs. This seems to confirm what Rogue Nation implied in 2015 when it said the IMF was only 40 years old: The movie series is a reboot of the 1966-73 TV series, not a sequel. Which means that the much-reviled version of "Jim Phelps" in the original movie was not "our" Jim Phelps, just another character of the same name, like Paris and Briggs here. (Well, unless it turns out that these are the children/grandchildren of the original characters. Although I kinda figure "The Great Paris" was a stage name.)
I remember hearing an early rumor a couple of years back that there would be characters in the 2-part film named Rollin Hand and Lambert. Did they change that, or are they going to be in Part 2?
Well, this is the current movie poster: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9603212/mediaviewer/rm1822368257
The images in the thread are more like publicity photos of the characters, which I figure are the sort of thing that would've been part of a press kit in the old days. Although several of them are the same images used in the main poster's montage.
Well, we die already get an Agent Carter in Ghost Protocol.
Well, Jane Carter, so it's not quite the same. Still, it may have been an homage. Ghost Protocol is the M:I movie that most strongly homages the series, with its strong focus on the caper mechanics rather than just intrigue and huge stunts, and with a number of the team's gambits resembling ones used in the show. It's the only M:I movie that feels like the series to me.
Yes, which is why Ghost Protocol is my favourite MI film outside of the first one (and even then I love the first for it's style as much as it's MI'ness)
I dislike the first, but I love GP. Not just because it feels like an actual M:I movie for a change, but because Brad Bird's direction and storytelling sense are as superb in live action as in his Pixar work.
Because they're telling a single two-part story, presumably, with the two films shot back to back with the same cast. I suspect they wanted to get the most out of Tom Cruise before he aged out of the role.
There have been plenty of 2-part movies over the decades, not all of them based on novels -- for instance, Kill Bill Part 1 & 2 and the Spider-Verse sequels. Sometimes a story is just too long to fit into one movie.
Except the Spider-Verse sequels had different titles on release, the same for Endgame/Infinity War, its entirely possible the same could happen with Dead Reckoning Part 2
Maybe, but it makes sense to use the same title if the point is to stress that the films are connected.
I mean, historically, the Mission: Impossible film series has been so disconnected that it barely even constituted a series, just a sequence of unrelated spy movies with the same lead character. They reflected their directors' individual styles more than they reflected each other -- M:I was a typical Brian DePalma paranoid thriller, M:I:2 was a typical John Woo action spectacle, J.J. Abrams's M:I:III was essentially Alias: The Movie, and Ghost Protocol was a very Brad Bird-style action comedy with the kind of intricate scene structuring you'd find in a Pixar movie. The series has gained increasingly more consistency in tone, characters, and story continuity since Christopher McQuarrie became its regular director, but having two movies telling a single unified story is still an exception to the usual episodic pattern. So it makes perfect sense to use the same title for both parts, to stress that difference from the previous norm.
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