It was obviously going to be hard to match up to that, so ‘Rogue Nation’ brought in Cruise dangling from the side of a plane door. In a lot of ways, I would state that ‘Fallout’ changed things, just as ‘Ghost Protocol’ did with Cruise’s Burj Khalifa scaling stunt, reinstating just how important it is for these films to reinvent themselves every few years. Throw in a couple of nuclear threats, continent hopping, and most importantly, as much Cruise as you can. Sure, the next MI film isn’t the next Christopher Nolan film wherein the plot would be kept under tight wraps until a few weeks before the release of the film but we are still awfully low on information, except for old tropes being repeated: a grizzled villain, or a megalomaniacal one, hell bent on destroying either the world, or Hunt, or both. We are an evil lot of audiences, we are! Dangerously so, expect the sequel to have nearly the same stunt structure at least, something that’s clearly worked for the franchise post ‘Ghost Protocol’. The franchise has come a long way from Cruise’s slow-mo bangs and leather jacket in the second, to more nuanced and brutal combat, and higher stake stunts, before finally realising for good that the one thing that differentiated this franchise from the other spy-action films out there (looking at you, James Bond!) was its leading man, and the one thing that kept the people coming back for more was to see how far the franchise’s 57-year-old actor was willing to push himself, and what new extremes he would scale. In all probability, MI7 will have a new villain. I am still guessing that if he returns, it would be in the capacity of a secondary antagonist and not the main one. The same, however, cannot be said for the franchise’s now recurring villain, Solomon Lane, who despite threatening the world twice now, has still been detained by the MI6, and we all know that it would take all of the next film’s opening 10 minutes and an elaborate chase to bust him out. The villain from the last film, August Walker, played by the ever charismatic Henry Cavill, has close to zero chances of returning, unless the franchise’s idea of surprise was to introduce zombies, because the last time I checked, August Walker has a winch hook in his face, and that’s pretty difficult to recover from, especially for a zombie. There is remarkably low information on what the plot of the next MI film looks like. Your mission should you choose to accept it, is to decode the plot of the upcoming Mission Impossible films, said the editor, and I took it only to land myself in quite some pickle. Mission Impossible 7 Plot: What Is It About? That being said, here is everything that we currently know of the franchise’s seventh outing.
Both the films are still pretty early in development stages, but the massive success that ‘Fallout’ proved to be, with the best critical score of all MI films and the highest collection figures in the franchise, we are sure that the next MI films are clearly the studios’ number one priorities. Royal Randwick Racecourse: Nyah steals a memory card loaded with a video showing the deadly Chimera virus killing a victim from Ambrose while the two attend a horse racing event at this suburban Sydney racetrack.While this one isn’t necessarily the last of the saga for Ethan Hunt, the end of the line still seems pretty much in sight, unless Cruise continues to surprise us the way he always has. The film’s famous fight scene featuring Cruise and Scott tackling each other mid-air as their motorcycles collide was also shot in the area. San Gabriel Valley: While Nyah leads Ethan on a car chase in Seville, the near fatal game of bumper cars was actually shot in Azusa, California.īare Island: The movie’s villain (rogue IMF agent Sean Ambrose, played by Dougray Scott) lives in the former military base located on this islet in south-eastern Sydney.
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Royal Randwick Racecourse Photo by Jason McCawleyĭead Horse Point State Park: The movie opens when Hunts receives his latest mission (to find and destroy a genetically altered disease called Chimera) while he’s solo rock climbing in Utah’s Dead Horse Point State Park.īoomerang Mansion: Sydney’s most expensive house was a stand in for a Spanish manse in Sevile where Hunt first meets thief-turned-IMF-agent Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton).