DUBAI: The latest film in the Mission: Impossible series will be called “Ghost Protocol”, Hollywood star Tom Cruise revealed in Dubai. “It’s not going to be MI 2, MI 3, MI 4, but it’s gonna be ‘Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol’,” Cruise told a news conference.
“One of the things that I always wanted with the franchise was for it to not have a number afterwards, because I haven’t made sequels of films, and I never really thought of these films as sequels,” Cruise said. “When you see each one of them, I think it’s distinctive of each film-maker. It’s a series that I love doing,” the American actor said.
Paramount Pictures said the latest in the series that has grossed two billion dollars worldwide, is currently shooting in Dubai, and would also be filmed in Moscow, Prague and Vancouver. Ghost Protocol will be in theatres in December 2011, Paramount said. “To be shooting here, it’s a city I’ve always wanted to shoot in,” Cruise said of Dubai.
The film’s director, Brad Bird, said he was pleased with filming in Dubai. “We love the fact that it’s a big, new city. It has the scale we look for in these kind of movies, because these are big movies. I think that it’s almost like sets that you could never afford,” said Bird. The director, actors and producers were generally mum on how long shooting in the emirate would last, and where it would take place.
But Burk did say that “we will be shooting in the building you are all sitting in right now,” referring to Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower at 828 metres (2,717 feet), where the news conference was held.
