Mission: Impossible III - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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

[liam]

As of 2015, this is the last non-superhero film to be the summer movie season starter (released on the first weekend of May). With superhero movies scheduled to start the summer through 2019, that will mean thirteen consecutive years have started the summer with a superhero movie.

[chad]

(At around one hour and thirty-five minutes) When Ethan wakes up tied to the chair, and Brownway shoots the charge up his nose, the hand seen holding the gun to Tom Cruise's nose is not Eddie Marsan's, but Cruise's own hand. The same goes later when Musgrave puts the phone to Ethan's ear, then Ethan bites Musgrave's hand. The hand that Cruise bit was not Billy Crudup's, but again was his own hand.

[frederick]

It's coincidental that one of the disguises that Tom Cruise adopts in the film is that of a priest. In real life, Cruise briefly studied to become a priest before he got the acting bug.

[frances]

The interior of Ethan Hunt's house was based on J.J. Abrams' family's home.

[sandra]

Buster Reeves: Appears as the gunman who is shot out the window.

[veronica]

Kelly Brook was at one point slated to appear.

[kenzi]

Phil Alden Robinson was one of the finalists for director.

[morris]

Maggie Q had to learn how to drive for the movie, she didn't know how to before. It is revealed in the DVD extras that while driving during the shoot, the heel of her shoe got stuck on the accelerator, leading her car to crash (lightly) into another parked car.

[jesse]

When David Fincher was attached as director, Sylvester Stallone was being courted to play the main villain.

[russell]

When Hunt makes his spectacular leap off a Shanghai skyscraper, he is on the east side of the Huangpu River that runs through the middle of the city. He ends up landing on the west side of the river, near Yanan Highway, which is about two kilometers away from the building, from which he had just jumped.

[kenneth]

At one point, Ricky Gervais was cast in the film as an ally to Ethan Hunt. But due to various production and casting changes, Gervais had to pull out of the film and was replaced by Simon Pegg.

[jessica]

SERIES TRADEMARK: Ethan is suspended by a cable while infiltrating the Shanghai building to get the Rabbit's Foot. See also Mission: Impossible (1996) and Mission: Impossible II (2000).

[michele]

Tom Cruise did the vast majority of his own stunts in this film. Most of them were done without major injury. However, he cracked a couple of ribs once when he turned his upper torso too quickly.

[nina]

It was rumored Brad Pitt would replace Tom Cruise in the "Mission: Impossible" film franchise. But the rumor was false.

[carla]

Despite having a large role in the film, the character of Declan Gormley (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is never refereed to by his name.

[violet]

Kenneth Branagh was cast as the villain, but because of shooting delays, he had to drop out to begin work on As You Like It (2006).

[michele]

As the production could do nothing about inquisitive crowds watching them while they were filming in Rome, they actually set up a phony second unit a little further away, hired several girls in bikinis and several older women dressed as nuns and pretended to be filming takes for the film, while the main unit got on with their business largely undisturbed.

[alyssa]

The assistant directors on both units, Mathew Dunne and Tommy Gormley, had characters named after them: "Benjamin Dunn" and "Declan Gormley", respectively.

[janice]

Philip Seymour Hoffman is the second Academy Award winner (after Jon Voight in the first film) to play the lead villain in the Mission: Impossible film franchise.