Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One | Featurette: Taking On AI - Tom Cruise - video Dailymotion

The seventh instalment of the "Mission: Impossible" franchise, which sees Tom Cruise reprising his starring role as Ethan Hunt.

Transcript

00:00 The stakes of this mission are higher than ever.

00:02 An enemy that is everywhere and nowhere.

00:05 Tell me the beginning.

00:08 The idea of information technology being a threat goes back to my earliest days of working on Mission Impossible.

00:14 Active learning AI.

00:15 It is access to our satellite telecommunications.

00:18 And the world's intelligence networks.

00:20 The very truth as we know it.

00:23 We're powerless to stop it.

00:25 Around 2019 as we were beginning work on Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning,

00:30 I felt like we were ready to introduce it as the villain of our film.

00:33 A self-learning, truth-eating digital parasite.

00:38 The Entity.

00:40 It knows your every secret.

00:42 Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later.

00:46 When we were in post-production, we started to recognize that what the Entity had turned into...

00:51 Reggie, where is she? Down the narrow eye and turn left.

00:53 Copy that!

00:54 ...was now starting to resemble a reality that was developing around us.

00:58 Ethan, you're talking to the Entity!

00:59 Turn left! Turn right!

01:00 Ethan, that is not me! Do you copy?

01:02 I know what matters most to you, Ethan.

01:05 This is a bed sheet.

01:07 (dramatic music)

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