May 2024

Going Rogue: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

This article was originally published in AC, August 2015 Unit photography by David James, SMPSP; courtesy of Paramount Pictures Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his handpicked team of associates from the Impossible Mission Force must once again face down seemingly insurmountable odds in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Behind the scenes, cinematographer Robert Elswit, ASC was likewise tapped for a return to the field after shooting the previous installment in the long-running franchise, 2011’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote and directed Rogue Nation, had worked on the script for Ghost Protocol, so, as Elswit explains, “we had worked together indirectly on the last movie.” Between McQuarrie and...more