Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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

[victoria]

Anthony Mackie, Christopher Egan, Kevin Zegers, Chris Pine, and Tom Hardy were considered to play Brandt.

[janice]

Only Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames have been featured in all six Mission: Impossible films, while Simon Pegg and Michelle Monaghan are the only cast members (besides Cruise and Rhames) to reprise their roles from the prior third installment Mission: Impossible III (2006). Simon Pegg and Jeremy Renner would actually move on to reprise their roles in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Pegg is set to reprise his role as Benji in the sixth film as well.

[melinda]

The indoor water fountains in the Indian Palace use special laminar flow nozzles to launch streams of water with no turbulence. Special valves are used to "cut" the water into discrete segments. Similar fountain technology is used in the Bellagio Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Las Vegas.

[jesse]

In the Italian version of the movie Ethan introduces Luther to the rest of the group as Stickler instead of Stickell.

[bernard]

The only film in the franchise, where the opening credits involving the lighting of a fuse and the Mission: Impossible theme, is actually part of the opening sequence. In all the other movies, from Mission: Impossible (1996) to Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), the opening credit is used as a cut between two scenes or two different events. Ghost Protocol is the only movie that makes the opening credit part of the action, by having one of the characters (Carter) light the fuse.

[kristen]

Agent Carter is also the name of Hayley Atwell's character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in which she is one of the founding members of S.H.I.E.L.D. Jeremy Renner also plays a S.H.I.E.L.D agent in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, known as Clint Barton, or by his superhero alias, Hawkeye. Also Ving Rhames appeared in the MCU, as Charlie-27 in Guardians of the Galaxy vol.2. On the opposite, Tom Wilkinson appeared as Carmine Falcone in Batman Begins (DC).

[javier]

This is the first film in the series to be released in IMAX.

[nina]

According to Tom Cruise, he was happy to hear that they were using a subtitle in the film's heading instead of a number like the prior two films did. Cruise has never been a fan of a number at the end of the film's sequel titles as he's always considered each film as a stand alone feature in the Mission: Impossible film franchise.

[cameron]

The Indian Palace Scene was shot in Zabeel Saray Palm Jumeirah (Dubai). The hotel was still under soft pre-opening during the shooting period, which took three days.

[jesse]

For its 70mm IMAX engagement, the film played with no previews, save for the six-minute prologue to The Dark Knight Rises (2012).

[terry]

Additional shots were filmed with Benji (Simon Pegg) and the Kremlin guard, the latter coming so dangerously close to the rear-projection screen that he nearly discovers the ruse. Tom Cruise had insisted on filming these, as he was afraid that they didn't get the maximum amount of suspense from the scene. In the end, Brad Bird had the shots deleted because it just seemed too improbable that the guard could get so close to the screen without detecting it.

[carl]

Similarly, as in this movie, the mission-instructions scene of Mission: Impossible: A Game of Chess (1968) takes place in a pay phone booth.

[elmer]

As seen in the final shot of the second theatrical trailer, a big missile flies over San Francisco and apparently heads towards the Emeryville area, the location of Pixar headquarters.

[cassandra]

(At around seventeen minutes) The code Ethan uses at the pay phone to get his latest mission, is Tom Cruise's birthday, 07362.

[ruby]

In Dubai, Tom Cruise is wearing a pair of glasses seen briefly in the train when the team is arming up for the mission. The same glasses are worn while scaling the hotel and are in fact Oakley Split Jackets, modified of course. They have clear frames with a special wind gasket and elastic strap which you can get for the standard models. Unfortunately, the glasses featured in the movie are one of a kind, and are not available to the public.

[alyssa]

The actor that hands Ethan the black mask to place over his head to meet the arms dealer appeared in Mission: Impossible (1996), giving him the same style mask when he is being taken to meet Max, an arms dealer.

[caroline]

This is the first installment in the franchise where none of the villains are, or used to be, IMF agents.

[chris]

The high quality screen hologram projector gadget used to conceal anyone behind it during the elaborated set-up within the Moscow Kremlin scene, was similarly used during the television series Mission: Impossible (1966) season four, episode sixteen, "The Falcon. Part 3".

[ronnie]

The windows removed from Burj Khalifa were carefully chipped away by two workers with hammers, working from a window washing platform outside the building.