I hesitate to say “no chance without it being cheap” these days with CERTAIN filmmakers
James Gunn continues to surprise me by making seemingly unworkable concepts into satisfying entertainment (“a talking raccoon and his buddy, the tree? Gimme a BREAK!” - and a few years later I’m literally shedding tears for the raccoon and tree)
McQ & Cruise, as a team, often do the same. They clearly care a great deal about delivering the best story possible.
This video discusses the possibility, though honestly some of the video’s comments are more thought-provoking:
https://youtu.be/7RbsEwDnDBE
Bottom line, though, the “Mission: Impossible” filmmakers are a team that values its members, especially its actors. Ferguson’ s obviously been admitted into that inner circle, as is obvious from their press interviews.
Of course, that in no way guarantees Ilsa’s survival — Cavill was also welcomed wholeheartedly into the team. But I can’t believe they’d have such a brief death scene and so little mourning for such a major character and real-life team-member.
Like the video blogger above, I’d expect something more along the lines of Julia’s phony death in “M:I 3.”
Ironic side-note: the teamwork thing worked AGAINST Sean Harris. He only agreed to “Rogue Nation” on the condition that Lane die, leaving no room for Paramount to “own” Harris contractually. But Cruise, McQ and the team liked working with him so much that they arranged for Lane to live.
McQ tells the story in a podcast about visiting Harris in his trailer. His expression alone told Harris what was up, and Harris’s first words were, “You fakkahs!”
That’s why I love the scene where they gas Lane, who glares and rages at Hunt. I like to imagine that we’re actually seeing Harris raging at Cruise, his executive producer, for trapping him in Paramount’s clutches.
Oh and I agree that the IMDB cast for “part two” means nothing. Ferguson could be there as a smokescreen, or because IMDB doesn’t know any better, or because of SAG/AFTRA rules (adopted after Lester screwed the cast over by breaking “The Three Musketeers” into two movies)
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