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DESCRIPTION: This episode we are joined by David Vickery, the visual effects supervisor for “Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.” This week we talk about DNEG's (formerly called Double Negative) contribution to the project, Tom Cruise’s commitment to hold his breath underwater, and how they captured the shot of him jumping into the Torus (and how long they worked on that sequence). Also: some good-natured Robert Elswit antagonism! Get ready! Released May 13th, 2022. Released May 13th, 2022.

SHOW NOTES: As promised, here is a screen grab from our Zoom chat with David so you can see his Henry Cavill-like mustache...

As discussed in the interview, here is the video essay about “The Spielberg Oner”...

In the interview David also talks about the various elements needed to create Ethan’s jump into the Torus...

And here’s the shot of Baldwin, Renner, and Cruise that we talk about. They couldn't get everyone back at the same time to do the reshoot so Baldwin was filmed separately and they stitched it together in the edit...