Mission: Improbable

Mission: Improbable (2000)

A behind the scenes look at the stunt work of "Mission: Impossible 2", told through one stunt man who looks like a certain superstar, who's got his looks, but certainly not his smarts.

Date of release
2000-11-07
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (24)
Runtime
7m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Joel Gallen

Casting

Interesting facts

Mission: Impossible 2 is a 2000 American action spy film directed by John Woo from a screenplay by Robert Towne, and produced by and starring Tom Cruise. It is a standalone sequel to Mission: Impossible (1996) and the second installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. The film also stars Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson, Brendan Gleeson, Rade Šerbedžija and Ving Rhames. In the film, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) teams with professional thief Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Newton) to secure a genetically modified disease, Chimera, held by rogue Impossible Missions Force (IMF) agent Sean Ambrose (Scott), who is Nordoff-Hall's former lover.

Production

In the summer of 1996, it was revealed that a sequel to Mission: Impossible was in the works. William Goldman says he was the first writer on the film. "All that's left of mine is the climax... the climbing up the rocks sequence," he said. "I couldn't come up with a good villain and Bob Towne did."

According to screenwriter Robert Towne, several action sequences were already planned for the film prior to his involvement and before the story had been written.

Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga's draft of the script included Willy Armitage as one of the team members, though the role would have been recast with a younger actor instead of original cast member Peter Lupus.

Initially, Oliver Stone was set to direct Mission: Impossible 2 after collaborating with Tom Cruise in Born on the Fourth of July in 1989. He described it as "a vehicle to say something about the state of corporate culture and technology and global politics in the 21st century". Stone further noted that the film's commercial nature and Cruise's star power would, in a way, "[give him] some camouflage" when delving into overtly political themes.

Cruise regretted killing off Jack Harmon in the previous film and attempted to include the character in the sequel. This idea was abandoned as Cruise and Woo couldn't come up with a plausible way for Harmon to have survived his death in the previous film. Extensive production of Eyes Wide Shut delayed Cruise's work on Mission: Impossible 2 and his ex-wife Nicole Kidman's work on Practical Magic respectively.

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