Trivia
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part 1
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie · starring Christopher Sciueref, Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames
- 8 facts
- 2023
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part 1: trivia
All 8 facts
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Precaution
While filming in Italy, twelve people on the set tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, when filming resumed in the UK, Tom Cruise personally paid £500,000 for an old cruise ship for the cast and crew to isolate on.
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Veterans
Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames are the only actors to appear in all seven films in the series. Simon Pegg has been in every film since the third film.
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Bad luck
Filming started in Venice on the same day Northern Italy locked down for COVID-19. Production was hastily moved to Rome, only to be shut down again.
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Almost three decades
Scheduled to be released 27 years after the original film, Mission: Impossible (1996).
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The most expensive
The frequent delays caused by COVID-19 ballooned the budget to $290 million, making it the most expensive Mission: Impossible film, and the most expensive film of Tom Cruise's career.
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New format
This, along with its sequel Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part Two (2024), will be the first Mission: Impossible movies to shoot entirely in digital, unlike the first six movies which were shot on 35mm film.
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Product placement
As was the case in the previous four installments, BMW once again has extensive product placement of its cars and motorcycles throughout the movie. An extended-length car chase in Rome features Ethan & Grace each driving a 2022 BMW M5 CS, shown at one point with all four doors missing. Ethan also drives a BMW motorcycle off a cliff in one of the series' most elaborate stunts yet.
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The longest one
With the runtime of 163 minutes (2hrs 43 minutes) this will be the longest Mission Impossible film to date beating the previous record with Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) with the runtime of 147 minutes (2hrs 27 mins).