Tom Cruise is currently filming the seventh movie in the Mission Impossible franchise. Cruise plays Ethan Hunt, an agent for a secretive espionage agency IMF, in the movies which are based on the television series from the 1960s and 70s.
With an action-packed seventh movie in the pipeline, let’s look at some interesting facts from the Mission Impossible franchise:
1. There have so far been six Mission Impossible movies, grossing a combined $3.57 billion.
2. The first movie was released in 1996 and was directed by Brian De Palma. Not only has Tom Cruise starred in every Mission Impossible movie, he is also credited as a producer for each of them.
3. While playing Ethan Hunt, Cruise performs many of his own stunts. These include a solo free climbing scene in the Utah desert at the start of Mission Impossible 2 and climbing up the Burj Khalifa tower, the tallest man-made structure in the world, for the fourth movie Ghost Protocol.
4. Cruise has suffered multiple injuries while filming the movies. In MI 2, he his shoulder while jumping from one rock to another. One of his most famous injuries came in the sixth movie Fallout when he broke his ankle attempting to jump from one building to another while pursuing co-star Henry Cavill. A video of the gruesome injury when viral on the internet.
5. The only other actor to have appeared in every Mission Impossible movie is Ving Rhames who plays Luther Stickell, a computer hacker who works for IMF.
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