What is the common point between Mission Impossible and Star Wars?

Would Ethan Hunt have been seen in another galaxy? In 1996, Tom Cruise slipped into the shoes of the famous Agent Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible. Breathtaking waterfalls, dangerous missions, the saga inspired by the television series Mission impossible Created by Bruce Geller and broadcast in the years 1960-1970 made the actor a global star ever associated with this impressive series of action films which has seven flying, with an eighth and last which will be revealed in 2025 in dark rooms. And against all odds, it turns out that it has one point in common with another famous saga, but of a slightly different kind: Star Wars.

Indeed, the science fiction saga imagined by George Lucas has a common point with the mission films impossible. And it is JJ Abrams, who notably achieved Mission impossible 3which is broadcast this Tuesday, May 6 on 6ter Tuesday. Before tackling the third trilogy of Star Warswith the wake up of the Force, the last Jedi and the ascent of Skywalker, he got down to that of the third part of Mission impossible. In this one, Ethan Hunt no longer works on the ground and forms the new agents of the impossible mission. But while he only aspires to live a normal life with Julia, he was sent on a rescue mission when his first recruit is captured during a mission in Germany by the arms trafficker Owen Davian.

Tom Cruise suggested the name of an actor for Star Wars

If it is the only mission aspect that he has achieved, JJ Abrams has however kept an eye on the saga being credited as the producer of Ghost protocol, Rogue Nation et Fallout. In addition, he was able to count on the precious advice of his friend Tom Cruise to recruit one of the flagship actors of the third trilogy of Star Wars : John Boyega. “I am grateful to Tom Cruise, who loved Attack the Block”had thus entrusted the British actor who was revealed in this film by Joe Cornish, during the Comic Con of Emerald City. He had explained that it was when he was “Going up Mission Impossible At the time, with JJ Abrams [que] Tom said to JJ: ‘you should see this kid in Attack the Block’”. “JJ watched it and one thing led another, and four or five years later, I was in the film”he had concluded.