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"Mission" Possible; Cruise Rolls
The third installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise is finally on.
After much behind-the-scenes drama, shooting commenced Tuesday in Italy on the blockbuster sequel, with Rome's water traffic shut down for a speedboat-themed action sequence.
Alias and Lost mastermind J.J. Abrams is directing the Paramount feature, with Tom Cruise returning to star as Special Agent Ethan Hunt, as well as produce M:I-3.
Interest in the film has increased since Cruise professed his crazy love for Katie Holmes. Indeed, before Cruise took to his boat for the first-day shooting, he was spotted kissing his new fiancée, who stayed to watch the action from the banks of the Tiber River.
Before Tuesday, it seemed like getting the film off the drawing the board would be an impossible mission. The film had been dogged by director and cast turnover, cost concerns and reports about Paramount brass getting jittery over Cruise's bizarre public behavior.
A prohibitively expensive budget kept the film on ice for a long stretch, but after Cruise agreed to cut back on the pricetag--which Paramount insiders said had ballooned to $185 million--the film ramped up preproduction in order to start shooting this month.
"Tom's history with Paramount has made for one of Hollywood's most successful relationships; the opportunity to continue our collaboration with him on Mission: Impossible 3 is everything anyone in show business could hope for," Paramount head Brad Grey enthused last month in a statement.
The budget problems came after Scarlett Johansson bailed on the film in May, citing other film commitments. Also opting out of Mission was Matrix star Carrie-Anne Moss, who reportedly became spooked by changes in the script and production delays. Original director, David Fincher, dropped out to shoot another film, and his replacement, Joe Carnahan, was given his walking papers due to "creative differences" with Cruise. The actor finally settled on Abrams.
Joining Cruise in the cast are Keri Russell, Michelle Monaghan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
The franchise has taken in over $1 billion worldwide to date, according to Paramount, and the studio, in conjunction with Cruise, is pulling out all stops this time around in a bid to not disappoint fans.
Scenes will be shot all over the world, from Asia to Europe, this summer into the fall. However, one place Cruise & Co. won't be filming is inside Berlin's Reichstag. Cruise had hoped to roll cameras inside the famed dome, which draws thousand of tourists each year, but was denied his wish last year when the German Parliament nixed the idea.
Mission: Impossible 3 is slated to open May 5, 2006.
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