43 Things We Learned from the “Mission Impossible: Rouge Nation” Commentary

Rob Hunter and Hollywood.com present 43 Things We Learned from the Mission Impossible: Rouge Nation Commentary.  Here are three of my favorites…

4.    Hanging Ethan Hunt (Cruise) off the side of the A-400 plane was originally McQuarrie’s idea. “I was joking when I said it,” he explains. “I did not think you’d take me seriously.”

18.    It was Cruise’s idea to have Hunt be shot — an idea McQuarrie didn’t think would work because Hunt would be walking around for the rest of the film with a bullet in his gut — but Cruise added “six months later” and boom.

26.    The opera sequence was originally written to end with Hunt and Faust simply leaving out the back exit, but Cruise was having none of it. “This is Mission: Impossible! You can’t just walk out a back door!”