Mission Impossible 7: This incredible scene could have lasted… 1h30!

For the first time since the Mission Impossible franchise began, the studios agreed to split the film into two parts. The first part of Dead Reckoning was released on our screens on July 12 and generally pleased the audience. Director Christopher McCurry and his cast, led by the always fiery Tom Cruise, delivered pure entertainment at 2:40 a.m., with crazy stunts all over Europe and Africa.

But even with the story split in two, the director and his editor-in-chief had a first draft… for 4 hours! in the given interview varietyEddie Hamilton explains that the length of the film was actually shortened by imposing rather sharp cuts, which are sometimes seen on screen.

In doing so, he reveals that the long line on the train – during which Tom Cruise fights his way through a carriage moving at 215 km/h – could have gone on much longer: “It lasted 1:30 in our first version. In the final result, we reduced it to 50 minutes“Already an impressive length, which is not really like adrenaline.

Hamilton explains that he mainly worked on one of the final scenes of the scene, when Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell’s characters find themselves in carriages that gradually fall into the void. If some viewers were surprised by the rather lively montage, it was because they had no choice but to cut it as short as possible: “It was 3 minutes and we had to shorten it because everyone at the protests said it was too long“- concludes the editor.

It remains to be seen if it will offer us an action scene before this…