Via Yahoo Movies comes this rather bad-ass pic of Tom Cruise from the forthcoming (Dec 2011) Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (the 4th in the series in case your counting). I have high hopes for this because I do think nobody does an action flick like the Cruiser. Not even the Stat! And while Arnie, Bruce and Sly were the ultimate action heroes, there a bit too close to the bus pass to be hurtling themselves around the big screen any more. And no I haven’t forgotten about the Expendables, but there was some great online makings of for that, and Stallone was very nearly permanently fucked up. Anyway, enough of the ramblings. Feast your eyes on the pic. Oh, and there’s a great interview with Brad Bird over on yahoo movies, which is worth a read.
He talks about alot in the flick and touches off shooting some of it, ala Chris Nolan style, in IMAX “I think one of the challenges was just we had a tighter schedule and budget than the last "Mission" but we were a bigger film. You're shooting 25 minutes in IMAX, we have some enormous set pieces, and so we had a very sort of ambitious schedule where we had to continually keep moving and really get our shots and go. So I think that there was just the physical challenge of doing that moving at a very brisk speed and having these enormous set pieces.”
