Legendary Hollywood Producer

The story began between 1964 and 1965, when Bruce Gate, who was responsible for the production of TV rawhide dramas, was born with the idea of ​​writing a spy drama, so the script for "Mission Impossible" came into being.

In 1966, the TV series "Mission Impossible" was filmed by Bruce Gate himself and broadcasted on TV.

This TV series has been produced for a total of seven seasons, won numerous honors during the broadcast, and is a frequent guest of the Golden Globe and Emmy Awards.

Later, Viacom Media Television Network Group acquired Paramount Pictures and began to formally enter the film and television drama production industry.

In the same year, the company acquired desiu production company, which is the producer of the "Mission Impossible" series of TV series, and it also owns the IP copyright of "Star Trek".

Subsequently, Viacom Media and Entertainment Group transferred all the premium content copyrights of Desiu Production Company to Paramount Pictures.

In 1988, the TV series "Mission Impossible" was authorized by Paramount Pictures to remake ABC TV. However, once the new "Mission Impossible" was broadcast, it was resisted by the audience, and no one recognized this version of "Mission Impossible" spy".

By 1993, Paramount Pictures had the idea to make the TV series "Mission Impossible" into a film, but because of the failure of the remake, they were worried that the audience would still not buy it. At this time, Tom Cruise is the hot new star in the film industry, and he has left his mark on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. He co-founded the film production company "CruiseWagnerProduction" with his former agent Paula Wagner.

As soon as the production company founded by Tom Cruise and his former agent was established, his first investment goal was the film production of "Mission Impossible" planned by Paramount Pictures.

The two sides hit it off quickly, and because Paramount Pictures wanted to share the risk, the project’s most powerful voice was the actor-born Tom Cruise. His production company was responsible for most of the film shooting costs, and he still The starring role of the movie, his box office influence is also part of his bargaining chip, which was calculated into the film project of "Mission Impossible".

When the preparations for "Mission Impossible" began, the first candidate for the director was determined to be directed by Sherny Poeller, who won the Oscar for best director. Later, for some reasons, the final director was Brian de Palma. , The latter is famous for horror and suspense movies, so his shooting philosophy also prefers to create suspense. As a result, the script that had been created was overturned and needed to be rewritten. The lineup of screenwriters for this movie is also extremely luxurious, including:

David Cope (participated in the adaptation of the Spider-Man script in Jurassic Park 1, 2 and 2002), Robert Downey (won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the movie "Chinatown"), Stephen Zarian (The script creator of "Schindler's List").

The film originally had a shooting budget of 60 million U.S. dollars, but in the end it cost 80 million U.S. dollars to make it.

The reason for this is because the starring and producer Tom Cruise often has many decisions that make a forehead, resulting in that the pre-calculated money is far from enough. As a last resort, the two parties have added an additional investment to make the movie. Finished shooting.

After the movie was released, because of its own TV drama foundation, coupled with Tom Cruise's popularity and his hard performance in the film, it directly reaped a box office of 180 million in the North American market and a global box office of US$457 million.

In the offline market where video tapes are king, they also got more than 80 million U.S. dollars in rental income, which can be described as a great commercial success.

It was also because of the great opening of the movie "Mission Impossible 1" that Tom Cruise's influence on the production of the film soared. Director Brian de Palma has repeatedly bombarded Tom Cruise in front of the media, saying that he often interfered with the normal filming work on the set, dictated, changed the filming plan temporarily, and showed disrespect to the main creative staff. Since then, every director of the "Mission Impossible" series of films has used similar reasons to accuse Tom Cruise of being "nosy."

But also because of his "nosy", the "Mission Impossible" series is full of Tom Cruise's personal imprints, such as: world-wide scenes (every time the movie budget is exceeded, it has a lot to do with this. , Tom Cruise really likes shooting on the spot), the iconic falling from the sky, he doesn't like to use doubles to complete dangerous action shooting and so on.

The huge commercial success of the first part made the shooting of the second part a logical one. This time it was directed by the well-known Hong Kong director Wu Yusen. At that time, he came to Hollywood for many years. With the release of "Face Changing", he won a lot of applause. It was also because this movie prompted him to take over "Mission Impossible 2". 》Director position for filming.

The second part has a total investment of 125 million, and ultimately won the North American box office of 215 million and the global box office of 565 million.

Although it was successful in the movie market, it was a mess in word-of-mouth. Many viewers and the media ranted frantically, saying that except for Tom Cruise's cool and handsome appearance in the film, he was nothing to behold.

As the director, Wu Yusen spoke decisively and pointed out to the media that he had no right to speak during the filming of this film, and Tom Cruise made the decision on major and minor matters.

In view of the fact that when the last movie was released, the director also said a similar situation, so this matter should not be groundless. But Wu Yusen's shooting level is really not flattering.

When he directed "Bulletproof Monk", "Memory Rift", and "The Wind Whisperer", these three films were all hit by the box office and word of mouth when they were released. "The Wind Whisperer" invested 120 million yuan, and only recovered 40 million yuan in box office results, which directly destroyed the MGM production company and the CEO was also forced to step down. The starring actor Nicholas Cage also seemed to have bad luck on his back, and began to decline year after year, becoming a representative of the famous "box office poison". As a result, Director Wu couldn't stay in Hollywood anymore. He chose to return to his hometown of Xiangjiang. Later, he went to the mainland to film the money-making work "Tai Ping Lun", which can be described in two words: extremely poisonous.

And now Paramount Pictures wants to introduce Manhai Entertainment into the production of "Mission Impossible 3".

In addition to the poor reputation of the second film, it will increase the risk of film series. I want to find new collaborators to reduce the risk. It happens that Paramount Pictures and Manhai Entertainment are in the honeymoon period. The more important reason may be that they don't want to see Tom Cruise's voice in film production continue to increase, and they want to find Roman to help curb it.