While filming the famous scene in which Tom Cruise drops from the ceiling and hovers inches above the ground, Cruise’s head kept hitting the floor until he got the idea to put coins in his shoes for balance.
The first movie is the only Mission: Impossible film that doesn’t feature any shootouts or gunfights. Ethan Hunt never even fires a gun in the first film.
Tom Cruise really performed the sequence where Ethan Hunt scales the outside of the Burj Khalifa tower, without the use of a stunt double. The Burj Khalifa tower is the tallest man-made structure in the world.
For the “knife-in-the-eye” scene, Tom Cruise insisted that a real knife be used.
Only Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames have been featured in every Mission: Impossible film, while Simon Pegg and Michelle Monaghan are the only actors (besides Cruise and Rhames) to reprise their roles from Mission: Impossible III. Cruise, Rhames, Pegg, and now Renner (who debuted in Ghost Protocol) reprised their roles in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.
Mission: Impossible has a very specific series trademark. In every single film, someone is suspended by a cable while breaking into a location.
Tom Cruise preformed the sequence in which Ethan Hunt climbs on the outside of a flying airplane without the use of special effects or a stunt double.
Emilio Estevez was cast in the role of Jack Harmon to shock the audience when he perished early in the film.
The film made $695 million at the box office worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing installment in the franchise. It also surpassed War of the Worlds to become Tom Cruise’s highest-grossing film.
Luther Stickell’s line, “It’s that simple, huh?” after hearing Ethan Hunt’s explanation of what he thinks “Chimera” is, was a joke about Mission: Impossible, which was criticized for having an overly complicated plot.
According to Robert Towne, much of his script was written around action scenes that director John Woo told him he wanted to able to direct in the movie. That, and the fact the film was cut almost in half (the original run time was too long), explains some of the gaping plot holes.
Ghost Protocol is the only film of the series where the lighting of a fuse is part of the opening sequence instead of being used as a separation between scenes.
The famous rock climbing sequence was filmed at Dead Horse Point in Utah and performed by Tom Cruise on cables which were then digitally removed.
On Mission: Impossible III, production could do nothing about inquisitive crowds watching them while they were filming in Italy, so they actually set up a phony second unit a little farther away, hired several girls in bikinis and several older women dressed as nuns, and pretended to be filming takes for the film, while the main unit got on with their business, largely undisturbed.
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation takes place immediately after the events of Ghost Protocol.
Mission: Impossible II was the first movie for which Metallica ever agreed to write a song.
In all Pixar and associated films, they hide “A113” (the classroom in which the original Pixar animators originally met) somewhere in a scene. In Ghost Protocol (directed by Brad Bird, who also did Ratatouille and The Incredibles), Hanaway’s class ring has the number on it. It also serves as Ethan Hunt’s code number.
Ang Lee was initially considered to direct Mission: Impossible III.
In Mission: Impossible – Fallout, August Walker, Henry Cavill’s character, gives the series its first “f-bomb.”
Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) is the first Mission: Impossible villain to appear in two of the films.
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