26 Things We Learned from Tom Cruise and JJ Abrams’ “Mission: Impossible III” Commentary

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Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 26 Things We Learned from Tom Cruise and JJ Abrams’ Mission: Impossible III Commentary.  Here are three of my favorites…

5. That’s Abrams’ voice on the phone calling Hunt at the party. His hands also cameo as the coroner removing the explosive charge from Lindsey Farris’ (Keri Russell) dead head.

14. They couldn’t control the area for the scenes shot around the actual Vatican, and crowds gathered which caused interruptions. “So what we did is about a block and a half away from this location we set up a phony shoot, and we had three girls in bikinis and three old women dressed as nuns, and we had a camera and we had a tent. We pretended to be shooting something.”

20. “Listen carefully to the flute,” says Abrams during the scene where Musgrave mouths his support to a secured Hunt. “It’s the Mission: Impossible theme.”