'Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part 1' trivia and fun facts
Bad luck
Filming started in Venice on the same day Northern Italy locked down for COVID-19. Production was hastily moved to Rome, only to be shut down again.
Product placement
As was the case in the previous four installments, BMW once again has extensive product placement of its cars and motorcycles throughout the movie. An extended-length car chase in Rome features Ethan & Grace each driving a 2022 BMW M5 CS, shown at one point with all four doors missing. Ethan also drives a BMW motorcycle off a cliff in one of the series' most elaborate stunts yet.
The longest one
With the runtime of 163 minutes (2hrs 43 minutes) this will be the longest Mission Impossible film to date beating the previous record with Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) with the runtime of 147 minutes (2hrs 27 mins).
Veterans
Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames are the only actors to appear in all seven films in the series. Simon Pegg has been in every film since the third film.
New format
This, along with its sequel Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part Two (2024), will be the first Mission: Impossible movies to shoot entirely in digital, unlike the first six movies which were shot on 35mm film.
Almost three decades
Scheduled to be released 27 years after the original film, Mission: Impossible (1996).
The most expensive
The frequent delays caused by COVID-19 ballooned the budget to $290 million, making it the most expensive Mission: Impossible film, and the most expensive film of Tom Cruise's career.
Precaution
While filming in Italy, twelve people on the set tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, when filming resumed in the UK, Tom Cruise personally paid £500,000 for an old cruise ship for the cast and crew to isolate on.