PEOPLE Mission Impossible
Mission: Impossible
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning Opener • LIGHT THE FUSE! THE IMPOSSIBLE MISSION FORCE HAS REASSEMBLED FOR M:I—THE FINAL RECKONING. IN ALL NEW INTERVIEWS, TOM CRUISE AND THE OTHER CAST AND CREATORS TAKE PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES
On Top of the World • EXCLUSIVE! FROM THE ARCTIC CIRCLE TO THE SKIES OVER SOUTH AFRICA: TOM CRUISE, HAYLEY ATWELL, SIMON PEGG, ANGELA BASSETT AND MORE OF THE MISSION TEAM GET DEBRIEFED ON THEIR LATEST ADVENTURE
Tom Cruise: ‘Making Movies…Is Who I am’ • IN A RARE CONVERSATION, THE MISSION STAR TALKS FILM HEROES, DANCE CLASS, THE STUNT THAT MADE HIM THINK TWICE, AND WHAT TO EAT BEFORE HANGING OFF A BIPLANE
Hayley Atwell as Grace • A VETERAN OF THE LONDON STAGE AND OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE, ATWELL TALKS DRIVING A FIAT IN ROME WITH TOM CRUISE—AND A DOGSLED IN THE ARCTIC WITH A TEAM OF HUSKIES
Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn • HIRED FOR HIS UNERRING FUNNY BONE, THE ACTOR QUICKLY PROVED HE ALSO HAS HEART IN SPADES
Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell • SPARED FROM EARLY DEATH, TECH WHIZ LUTHER BECAME ONE OF THE IMF’S—AND THE FRANCHISE’S—GREATEST ASSETS
Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge • HE’S BACK! THE IMPERIOUS IMF CHIEF FROM THE FIRST FILM RETURNED AFTER 27 YEARS TO HEAD THE CIA IN DEAD RECKONING AND FINAL RECKONING. THE ACTOR’S REACTION? ‘HOLY COW!’
Pom Klementieff as Paris • IN A STUNNING AND NEAR-SILENT DEBUT, SHE LET HER ACTION SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS
Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane • WELCOME BACK, MADAM PRESIDENT! LAST SEEN HEADING THE CIA, BASSETT’S CHARACTER RETURNS WITH AUTHORITY, POWER—AND PEARLS
Blasts From The Past Opener • INSIDE THE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE FILM SERIES’ EPIC STUNTS, CHASES, HEROES, VILLAINS, GADGETS, FACE PEELS, PLOT TWISTS AND MORE. PLUS THE ’60s TV SPY SENSATION THAT INSPIRED THE MOVIES
Inside The First Mission • REBOOTING A COLD WAR-ERA TV SPY SHOW AS A NOT-TO-BE-MISSED ’90s ACTION MOVIE? THERE WAS ONLY ONE MAN TO PULL OFF THAT HIGH-WIRE ACT
Allies & Enemies • THE MISSION CASTS ARE STACKED WITH GREAT PERFORMANCES, WHICH CAN MAKE IT EVEN HARDER TO DETECT DOUBLE AGENTS AMONG THE IMF LOYALISTS AND VILLAINS. CAN YOU SUSS THEM OUT? (ANSWERS ON PAGE 95)
Mission: Incredible • THE GIDDY THRILL OF EACH NEW FILM IS SEEING THE JAW-DROPPING HEIGHTS TOM CRUISE WILL RISE TO NEXT. STUNT COORDINATOR WADE EASTWOOD SHARES THE VIEW FROM THE TOP
Tools of the Spy Trade • EAT YOUR HEART OUT, MR. BOND! THE MISSION FILMS MAY NOT HAVE Q, BUT THEY DO USE AN ARSENAL OF GEE-WHIZ GIZMOS, GUISES AND DEADLY WEAPONS
Should You Choose To Accept It…’ • THE 1966 TV SERIES ESTABLISHED THE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE FRANCHISE’S SIGNATURE TROPES AND FOR SEVEN SEASONS DELIVERED THE ELABORATE PLOTS, OFFBEAT EXPERTS AND WILD TWISTS FOUND IN GREAT CAPER FILMS
That Indestructible Theme Music • LALO SCHIFRIN’S TV SCORE HAS INSPIRED SOME OF FILM’S GREAT COMPOSERS. (BUT YOU STILL CAN’T DANCE TO IT)
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Facing Off With…Wolf Blitzer • THE VENERABLE NEWSMAN GIVES THE INSIDE SCOOP ON HIS FALLOUT CAMEO: ‘A ROLE I HAD BEEN PREPARING FOR MY WHOLE LIFE’