Director Brad Bird talks about shooting 25 minutes of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol in IMAX
Brad Bird: I pushed hard in the earliest meetings I had, where Tom Cruise, J.J. Abrams and I went to Paramount to discuss what wanted to do with this movie. And I pitched the idea of shooting several sequences in IMAX. For me the most immersive experience is actually filming in IMAX, because the detail and the clarity is just unparalleled. We have about 25 minutes of the film that is that way. Maybe slightly less than The Dark Knight, which was the last film that really shot extensively in IMAX.
We were just showing people snippets of the film. And people are getting vertigo, because the screens are so big that they actually feel like they're gonna tumble into them.
And that's the kind of stuff you live for as a filmmaker. Because it's an experiential medium. So the more you can make it like a dream and like reality, but a dreamlike version of reality. That's what you're going for. You want to sweep people away and take them somewhere.
I love showmanship. And I wanted all the first people that saw this movie to see it at its best. So we are opening in IMAX on December 16th. Five days before it opens wide. That way all the first people that see this film, will see it at its very best.
So I just wanted to like break out the showmanship, you know what I mean?
