Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is a 2015 American action movie co-written and directed by Christopher Mc’Quarrie. This is fifth movie of Mission Impossible film series. The film stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, and Alec Baldwin with Cruise, Renner, Pegg, and Rhames reprising their roles from previous films. Rogue Nation is produced by Cruise, J. J. Abrams, and David Ellison of Skydance Productions. In the film, IMF agent Ethan Hunt(Cruise) is on the run from the CIA, following the IMF’s disbandment as he tries to prove the existence of the Syndicate, an international mysterious terrorist consortium.
Plot
After intercepting nerve gas being sold to terrorists, Impossible Missions Force(IMF) agent Ethan Hunt is convinced he can prove the existence of the Syndicate, an international criminal consortium that the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) does not believe exists. Hunt is captured by the Syndicate, but escapes a torture chamber led by Syndicate member Janik "Bone Doctor" Vinter with the help of disavowed MI6 agent and Syndicate operative Ilsa Faust.
CIA Director Alan Hunley and IMF Field Operations Director William Brandt testify before a Senate committee. The IMF, currently without a secretary in charge, is controversial because of its destructive methods and various misconducts. Hunley succeeds in having the IMF disbanded and absorbed into the CIA. Brandt, knowing that Hunley will try to capture Hunt, warns him to stay undercover. Cut off from the IMF, Hunt follows his only lead: a blond man in glasses, later identified as former MI6 agent Solomon Lane.
Six months later, Hunt remains a fugitive. He enlists former colleague Benji Dunn to attend the opera Turandot in Vienna. He predicts that an attempt will be made on the Austrian Chancellor at the concert, and believes that Lane will also be there. He successfully stops three snipers including Faust, but the Chancellor is killed by a car bomb, and Lane is still not found. Faust drops hints of Lane’s plan to Ethan before leaving. Benji decides to stay with Ethan instead of reporting back to the CIA, despite knowing his action amounts to treason.
Ethan, blamed for the Chancellor’s death, is to be hunted down and killed by CIA’s Special Activities Division. Learning of this, Brandt contacts Luther Stickell to find Hunt before the CIA does. Stickell tracks Hunt, Dunn, and Faust to Morocco. Here, the group plans to acquire a list of Syndicate agents, contained in a secure building. After they successfully retrieve the data, Faust flees with it, evading both Hunt and Syndicate members. Hunt kills the pursuing Syndicate members, but lets Faust go. Dunn revealed that he copied the data to a second USB drive.
Faust returns to London and attempts to use the file to end her mission to infiltrate the Syndicate, but her MI6 handler, Attlee, compels her to continue. She and Lane learn that Attlee wiped the drive. Meanwhile, Ethan learns that the data is actually an encrypted British-government red box that requires the Prime Minister’s biometrics to unlock it. Lane’s men abduct Dunn, and use Dunn and Faust to force Ethan to decrypt the data and deliver it to them. Hunt agrees to the ultimatum, despite protests from Brandt.
As part of Hunt’s plan, Brandt reveals their location to Hunley. At a London charity auction, Hunley, Brandt, and Attlee take the Prime Minister to a secure room to protect him from Hunt. Attlee reveals himself as a disguised Hunt and has the Prime Minister confirm the existence of the Syndicate, a proposed project to perform missions without oversight, making the Prime Minister an executioner with zero accountability. When the real Attlee arrives, Hunt forces him to admit that he began the Syndicate without permission. Attlee admits he has been covering up its existence after Lane hijacked the project and went rogue, turning the Syndicate against him and MI6.
With the Prime Minister’s biometrics, Stickell decrypts the data and discovers the file actually contains access to 2.4 billion British pounds in various bank accounts. Hunt promptly destroys the data. At the meeting, he tells Lane he memorized the data, and offers himself in exchange for Dunn and Faust. Dunn escapes, while Ethan and Faust are chased through the streets of London. Faust kills Vinter in a knife fight, while Ethan lures Lane into a bulletproof cell where he is gassed and taken into custody.
Hunley and Brandt return to the committee meeting and convince them to restore the IMF. After the meeting, Brandt congratulates Hunley, who is now the new IMF Secretary.
Production
Paramount Pictures announced in August 2013 that Christopher McQuarrie would direct the fifth Mission: Impossible film, from a script by Drew Pearce, with Tom Cruise reprising his role as Ethan Hunt. Tom Cruise Productions and Bad Robot would produce, and Skydance Productions, who served as co-financers and executive producers of the latest installment, will work closely with the team in the development and production process." On November 14, 2013, Paramount announced a release date of December 25, 2015.
The same month, Simon Pegg confirmed he would reprise his role as Benji.
In May 2014, Will Staples replaced Pearce as screenwriter.
Also that month, Jeremy Renner confirmed he was returning in the role of William Brandt,
and Cruise said the film would shoot in London, with a later report saying it would first shoot in Vienna in August. At some point, McQuarrie replaced Staples as screenwriter; the final credits list McQuarrie as screenwriter, with story by Pearce.
In July 2014, Rebecca Ferguson was cast and Alec Baldwin was in talks for the film. Baldwin was confirmed to have joined the cast in August 2014, and Ving Rhames was confirmed to be reprising his role of Luther Stickell. On September 5, it was announced that Sean Harris was in negotiations for the villain role. On October 2, Simon McBurney joined the cast of the film. On October 6, Chinese actress Zhang Jingchu joined the film’s cast17. On March 22, 2015, Paramount revealed the film’s official title, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, along with a teaser poster and trailer.
Release
Paramount had originally scheduled the film for a December 25, 2015 release. On January 26, 2015, Paramount advanced the release date to July 31, 2015. The main reason cited by The Hollywood Reporter was to avoid competition with Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the James Bond film Spectre. In the United States and Canada, it was released in the Dolby Vision format in Dolby Cinema, the first ever time for Paramount. On February 13, 2015, Paramount and IMAX Corporation announced that they would digitally remaster the film into the IMAX format and release it in IMAX theaters worldwide on the scheduled date. The film was completed at 2:00AM on July 18, 2015, less than two weeks before its release date. The film was officially released in North America on July 31, 2015. Lotte released the film in South Korea on July 30, 2015. The film was released in China on September 8, 2015.
In August 2015, Fox Networks acquired the US cable broadcast rights, for broadcast after its theatrical release. The film will be available for FX Networks and its suite of networks: FX, FXX, FXM and the video-on-demand platform FXNow.