Very few people who’d consider themselves a “regular moviegoer” aren’t aware of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, the fifth installment in Tom Cruise‘s box-office mainstay. (Heck, anybody who lives in a major city can hardly enter a congested area without seeing a billboard.) After two trailers and with only a month to go before it hits theaters across the world, it’s probably unnecessary to make yet another trailer — but here we are, with yet another set piece that’s best experienced in the context of the complete film given away.
Cruise said this to USA Today, who premiered the latest bit, about the holding-your-breath-underwater-for-an-insane-amount-of-time angle:
“It’s something I have always wanted to do. (Director Christopher McQuarrie) and I have been thinking about it since working on ‘Edge of Tomorrow.’ I have done a lot of underwater sequences. But we wanted to create a suspense underwater sequence without cuts. So doing that sequence was really interesting. We’re underwater and we’re doing breath-holds of 6 to 61/2 minutes. So I was doing all my training with the other stuff (on-set). It was very taxing stuff.”
Between that and holding onto an airplane as it takes off — and shooting multiple takes of this — it can be concluded that the man we considered a mere actor is in fact a superhero.
Have a look below:
Synopsis:
With the IMF now disbanded and Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) out in the cold, a new threat — called the Syndicate — soon emerges. The Syndicate is a network of highly skilled operatives who are dedicated to establishing a new world order via an escalating series of terrorist attacks. Faced with what may be the most impossible mission yet, Ethan gathers his team and joins forces with Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), a disavowed British agent who may or may not be a member of this deadly rogue nation.
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation opens on July 31.