American Cinematographer - May 2006 - 33

Opposite: While
attempting to
retrieve

a

top-

secret item in

Shanghai, IMF
agent Ethan Hunt
(Tom Cruise)
prepares to leap
off a tall building
in a single
bound. This
page, top: Hunt
himself to

arms

rescue

and

protect another
member of the
IMF team,

Lindsey Ferris
(Keri Russell),
after her
abduction.
Bottom: The
tale's main

villain, Owen
Davian (Philip
Seymour
Hoffman), is an
international

of
dangerous items.
procurer

always

tough proposition,
and with a property such as
Mission: Impossible, which is
typically strong on action and
light on character, the challenge is
particularly daunting. Paramount
Pictures and producers Tom Cruise
and Paula Wagner have partly tack¬
led the problem by hiring directors
who can bring a contemporary spin
to the films' trademark intrigue and
kinetic mojo. For Mission: Impossible
2, it was Hong Kong action auteur

Keeping a film franchise fresh is

bMCP3MPaaiircrocpnotn-humFad0durogeeyifststlenl.l.,y

ocurftesy

Phot s

a

Mindel. "When I did my
I was amazed J.J. was

child and had always

homework,
taking this
project on, and I was surprised Tom
Cruise would hire a TV guy to do it.
I guess you can tell I don't watch a lot

genre, and that he was convinced this
would be the best [installment] ever

of TV!" One show he did know,

made. That

though, was the 1960s-era Mission:
Impossible. "I had watched it as a

me."

and the way
ence.

J.J. told

For

loved the masks
they tricked the audi¬
me

was

it

was

his favorite

good enough for

his part,

Abrams

was

fohn Woo, and for the latest install¬
ment, the director selected to raise
the bar was J.J. Abrams, creator of
television's Alias and Lost. Abrams,
who is

making his feature-directing

debut, clearly has the spy genre down
pat, and he is also no stranger to
international locations, real or simu¬
lated.
With
new

a new

director

comes a

cinematographer. But when
got the call, he had

Dan Mindel
never

heard of Abrams. "When J.J.
to meet with him, I wasn't

asked

me

really

sure

what it all meant,"

says
American

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