Mission: Impossible - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Mission: Impossible or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Mission: Impossible

[kristen]

The helicopter in the climactic action scene is an MD Helicopters 520N NOTAR. NOTAR (an acronym derived from the phrase "no tail rotor") generates torque-countering thrust by creating laminar air flow around its tail boom instead of by using a traditional tail rotor.

[tamara]

When Jim Phelps is getting his mission on the airplane, his team is shown, one by one. In the photobios, there are aliases. The aliases are interesting as follows: for Jack Harmon (Emilio Estevez), his alias is "Tony Baretta". For Sarah Davies (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas), her alias is "Suzanne Doucette", which is the name of the Technical Advisor on this movie, and also had a small part as a C.I.A. Agent.

[jim]

The climactic train sequence took six weeks to film at the 007 stage at Pinewood Studios.

[sylvia]

Last motion picture from a major studio to be released for home video on Betamax video cassette format.

[christina]

The producers cast Jon Voight as Jim Phelps because they thought audiences would never suspect him as a villain.

[nora]

This movie and The Untouchables (1987) are not only director Brian De Palma''s highest grossing movies, but both are adaptations of television series distributed by Paramount Pictures. Furthermore, Paramount acquired the rights to the source series of both movies from Desilu Productions.

[victoria]

For the scenes atop a speeding train, a skydiving simulator was used - the only one at the time in Europe - to distort Tom Cruise's face.

[riley]

Initially, there was a sophisticated opening sequence that introduced a love triangle between Phelps, his wife, and Ethan Hunt that was removed because it took the test audience "out of the genre", according to Brian De Palma.

[mathew]

While the TGV is an electric train powered by overhead lines, no power lines are visible above during the train scene. The TGV was instead pulled by a diesel locomotive for the needs of the movie, making the pursuit on the roof and the helicopter flying behind it possible.

[alyssa]

Robert Towne re-wrote scenes between takes during filming.

[harry]

A shot of Ethan and Claire kissing passionately is shown in the trailer (and in the brief excerpts from this movie at the start of this movie) but doesn't feature within the movie.

[nina]

FRANCHISE TRADEMARK: Ethan (Tom Cruise) is suspended by a cable while infiltrating the C.I.A. vault. See also Mission: Impossible II (2000) and Mission: Impossible III (2006), Brandt (Jeremy Renner) also did this in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011).

[kyle]

Jim Phelps is the only character from the original series to appear in this movie.

[manuel]

Development on a movie adaptation began in 1986, long before Tom Cruise became attached to star. The 1988 Writer's Guild of America strike halted movement on the project, and in the interim, Paramount produced the television revival Mission: Impossible (1988).