“It was extremely difficult, time-consuming and limited based on where you could physically shoot it. “I immediately regretted that choice,” he adds, laughing. There are great train wreck sequences in ‘ Lawrence of Arabia’ and ‘ Bridge on the River Kwai.’ So I knew trains were hugely challenging and wanted to take that on. ‘ The General’ is a movie I really admire. “ Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd - we always go back to those silent films. “Buster Keaton is obviously a big inspiration for ‘Mission: Impossible,’ and specifically Ethan Hunt,” McQuarrie says.
(Not a spoiler: It’s in the ads.) You could call the sequence a neat metaphorical trick too, with one of the movie’s themes being inevitability - it’s a word these villains are especially fond of - and our heroes caught on a literal runaway train. The extended conclusion finds tenacious spy Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and enigmatic thief Grace (Atwell) scrambling, climbing and jumping through cars as the train is slowly pulled over a wrecked bridge into a chasm. “My joy is knowing, ‘Oh, just you wait.’ ” “Watching it with an audience, I love it, because when the first carriage goes off the cliff, they give it a round of applause like they think that’s it,” says co-star Hayley Atwell in an interview conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike. For the film’s gripping final sequence, the biggest in one of Hollywood‘s biggest action franchises, that spectacular crash is just the beginning. So the production built a working replica of the luxurious Orient Express - three of them, actually - with the 70-ton locomotive’s ultimate destination being the bottom of a gorge. “We’ll figure out what the emotional story is later for each character. “ Tom said, ‘I want to drive a motorcycle off a cliff.’ And I said, ‘OK, I want to wreck a train,’” says “ Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One” director, co-writer and producer Christopher McQuarrie.
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