After months of speculation and rumor, the latest addition to the series with master animator Brad Bird making his directorial debut, finally settles on a title. For months the word was the studio was going to call it The Mission, yeah that’s was crazy – in the hopes it could be a reboot so that they reportedly could make more without the star in the future, either way it would’ve ruined the franchise.
Now it seems that someone has put their thinking caps on and have returned the series to it’s former glory by dropping the trendy abbreviation. At the recent press conference star Tom Cruise announced the title – assisted by the giant sign behind the cast; naming it Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
The production is currently in Dubai which is located just south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East. Most of the film is set to be shot there and even though little has been revealed about the plot, Cruise said in the press conference that they would be shooting at the Burj Khalifa Tower which is one of the cities newest landmarks having just opened in January. Although they were coy not to release details, Tom Cruise commented that the story would see him scaling the side of one of the worlds tallest buildings which measures 828 meters.
I’ll be spending many days, many hours on the side of this building. I can’t give you details, but I will be up there.
Ghost Protocol will be one of the first big Hollywood productions to feature the city prominently, director Brad Bird said:
We love the fact that it’s a big, new city, that it hasn’t been photographed very much … It’s almost like sets that you could never afford.
The cast feature several newcomers including Russian actor Vladimir Mashkov, Michael Nyqvist, as well as Paula Patton and Lost star Josh Holloway.
Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol is set to open on December 16, 2011.
Source: Collider
Check out some set pics.
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