10 Things You Need To Know About Mission Impossible 7
4. McQuarrie Mixing It Up (Again)
The Mission: Impossible series, up until Fallout, had always prided itself on bringing a wholly different creative team behind Tom Cruise in the pursuit of letting Ethan Hunt throw himself around with a reckless lack of self-regard in pursuit of his goals - but the sixth entry bucked the trend by bringing back Rogue Nation helmer Christopher McQuarrie.
A significant part of the director's choice to return for a follow-up was that he would be able to implement a different kind of style onto the IMF's exploits, and it's hard to deny that he did so; both of his entries so far, though connected by continuity, feel like different breeds of action film, the former moving with a caper-like grace and the latter drilled with a darker sensibility.
To achieve that, McQuarrie brought a different crew on to work on Fallout, to help differentiate, and he's done the same for the upcoming seventh entry. The biggest change is arguably in the cinematography department; after Robert Elswit and Rob Hardy's efforts, it's now the turn of Fraser Taggart, a man who has mostly made his name with second unit work on multiple blockbusters, including Rogue One, Doctor Strange and Ready Player One, to name a few.
He also shot Fallout's dizzying, brilliant helicopter sequences in New Zealand, near the climax of that film - which more than proves he's got the chops to keep up with Hunt and company.