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GO BEHIND-THE-SCENES WITH TOM CRUISE AND THE CAST & CREW OF MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING AS THEY PREPARE TO FILM IN THE ARCTIC

STARS: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny
Tom Cruise and the team behind Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning head to Svalbard for a breathtaking
Bundle up, friends, because we’re heading to Svalbard, Norway, for a look at Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which will chill you to your core. Cruise and his team bring a new Final Reckoning featurette to the frontlines today, highlighting some of the upcoming sequel’s astonishing filming conditions. If you thought the cast of Severence looked chilly during the outdoor retreat episode, “Woe’s Hollow,” you haven’t seen anything yet
You can’t fake being in minus forty degrees. If you take your gloves off for a few seconds, your fingers start to freeze,” Simon Pegg warns as footage of the cast and crew battle the cold in the new Final Reckoning featurette. “Being in an environment like that adds to the suspense and the drama,” Hayley Atwell adds about filming in the sub-zero temperature.

Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise never shies away from taking things to the extreme, and Final Reckoning looks no different. In addition to braving the frigid terrain of Svalbard, Norway, previews for the upcoming sequel show Cruise dangling from a low-flying plane, running from explosions, and hoping to survive an overwhelming underwater escape.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning tells the second half of the story that began in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, with Ethan Hunt out to destroy an AI system called The Entity, which is housed in a sunken Russian stealth submarine. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and Dead Reckoning writer/director Christopher McQuarrie remains at the helm, working from a screenplay he crafted with Erik Jendresen. The official synopsis is very simple: Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

Cruise is being joined in the cast by Hayley Atwell, reprising her Dead Reckoning role of thief-turned-IMF-recruit Grace; Vanessa Kirby as arms dealer Alanna Mitsopolis, a.k.a. the White Widow, a character who was previously seen in both Fallout and Dead Reckoning; Ving Rhames as IMF agent Luther Stickell, who has been part of this franchise since the first Mission: Impossible movie in 1996; Simon Pegg as IMF agent Benji Dunn, who joined the party back in Mission: Impossible III; Henry Czerny as CIA director Eugene Kittridge, who was introduced in Mission: Impossible (1996) and finally made his long-awaited return in Dead Reckoning; Rolf Saxon as William Donloe, a CIA analyst who got in trouble after Ethan Hunt accessed his computer way back in the first Mission: Impossible; and more Dead Reckoning reprisals: Esai Morales as the Entity-serving terrorist
Transcript
00:00As well as it's breathtakingly beautiful.
00:03We're in an absolutely remarkable place to be able to film.
00:07It is a unique experience.
00:09If you want to shoot the ice cap, you're going when the temperatures are absolutely their most extreme.
00:15And of course, the Arctic hit us right in the face.
00:19You can't fake being in minus 40 degrees.
00:22Take your gloves off for a few seconds.
00:24Your fingers start to freeze.
00:26Being in an environment like that adds to the suspense in the drama.
00:31I want to give audiences an experience of being there.
00:35It was a real privilege to do it.
00:37It looks amazing on the screen.

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