From relatively humble beginnings, the Mission: Impossible movies have grown into a vehicle for Tom Cruise—perhaps our last true movie star—to defy death through increasingly preposterous stunts in order to put some of the most spectacular action sequences ever conceived up on the big screen.
Though the series has played host to five different filmmakers, in Christopher McQuarrie Tom Cruise has found his perfect match. But it takes more than a director and a star to do the impossible, and invisibly at the center of these spectacular set pieces was A Camera and Steadicam operator Chunky Richmond. From walking backwards through the oil-slicked floor of a train carriage tilted 45-degrees over a ravine to dangling over open air from a cable, Camera Operator got to talk with Richmond about the physically demanding work that came with operating on this film and how it was unlike any other picture he’s ever worked on.
With the emergence of a seemingly omniscient artificial intelligence known only as “the Entity,” a global race kicks off for control over the elusive Al. Ethan Hunt is tasked with tracking down the key to its master code, but instead goes rogue, setting his sights on destroying the Al rather than allow that level of power to be wielded by any one party. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One stars Tom Cruise and is directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay by McQuarrie and Erik Jendresen. It also stars Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, and Henry Czerny.
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David Daut 