Mission: Impossible II - videos, teasers and stills from filming
All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Mission: Impossible II"
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Timing:
2:3 (123 min)
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What's left behind the scenes
- The character of Anthony Hopkins was the only one to use the phrase: “Mission: Impossible.”
- The first director's cut of this film was 3.5 hours long. Paramount Pictures stated that this was too much and informed director John Woo that the film needed to be cut down to a maximum of 2 hours. This explains the number of inconsistencies and plot holes present in the theatrical release.
- Thandiwe Newton became Ethan Hunt’s partner. She was suggested for the role by Cruise’s then-wife, actress Nicole Kidman, who had worked with Newton on John Dagan’s melodrama “Flirt” (1990). Newton was cast before the script was even finished.
- Due to circumstances beyond his control, Tom Cruise had to cover the budget overruns from his own pocket.
- In the scene where Tom Cruise rides a motorcycle through flames, he used neither fire-resistant clothing nor special protective gel.
- The role played by Anthony Hopkins was originally offered to Ian McKellen, but he was busy with a theatrical production in London, and the role went to Hopkins. McKellen's agent was horrified that he had turned down what was, in essence, a small role. Had McKellen accepted it, budget overruns would not have allowed him to play in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy (2001-2003), and, like Doug Gray Scott, he would not have worked with Bryan Singer on "X-Men" (2000).
- According to one of the screenwriters, Robert Towne, a significant part of his contribution to the plot focused on the action scenes that John Woo, as he told Towne, wanted to film in this movie.
- Tom Cruise personally oversaw the final editing, and John Woo was barred from entering the editing suite.
- Tandiwe Newton had never driven on the right side of the road before, so an instructor was constantly in the passenger seat next to her, ready to press a brake pedal specially extended to his side of the cabin at any moment.
- During the filming of the fight scene where the opponent tries to stab Tom Cruise's character in the eye with a knife, Cruise insisted on using a real knife, which had to be stopped millimeters from his pupil (and not 'somewhere nearby,' as director John Woo suggested). A cable was attached to the knife handle and slowly released to achieve the desired effect. Cruise insisted that Dougrey Scott, who played his opponent, use his full strength and not hold back.
- The scene where Tom Cruise 'rips off the face,' which turns out to be just a mask concealing the antagonist played by Dougrey Scott, was filmed in one take using a green screen. Cruise was instructed to place his hand in the correct position under his chin and then move it upwards. Scott, wearing a mask with sensors that transmitted a three-dimensional image of his face to a computer, removed the mask, after which Cruise's face was 'superimposed' onto the mask at the moment of removal, and both images were combined into one. Instead of the green screen, an image of the airplane cabin was inserted into the background.
- When Ethan attempts to escape the chase on a motorcycle, he passes the same intersection twice. This can be verified by paying attention to the road sign warning of the sudden appearance of kangaroos, and the sand-colored van that passes through the intersection twice in the same spot.
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