M:I Rogue Nation apparently ends post production

Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation’s teaser poster

Christoper McQuarrie, director of Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, went to Twitter to signal that the post-production of the fifth M:I film has finished post production.

The director gave periodic updates on the production, starring and produced by Tom Cruise, on Twitter. The film originally was scheduled for a Dec. 25 release. But Paramount moved up the movie to July 31.

In early 2013, Cruise had been approached to play Napoleon Solo for a movie version of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Cruise, though, exited that project by May 2013 after Paramount secured his services for the new M:I project. Cruise’s exit paved the way for actor Henry Cavill to play Solo. The U.N.C.L.E movie debuts Aug. 14, two weeks after Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation.

Anyway, take a look for yourself at the director’s tweet. Mission: Impossible is the next major release in 2015’s Year of the Spy:

picture lock #RogueNation

— ChristopherMcQuarrie (@chrismcquarrie) June 20, 2015

FWIW: Daily Mail claims Daniel Craig rewriting SPECTRE

SPECTRE teaser poster

Presented strictly for entertainment value: The U.K. Daily Mail IN A GOSSIP COLUMN BY SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE posted June 19, claims that SPECTRE star Daniel Craig has been doing some personal rewriting of SPECTRE’s script.

Here’s an excerpt:

I hear that the 47-year-old actor has been rewriting the script of 007’s latest outing, Spectre, even though filming has been going on since December.
‘The script is still all over the place, to the extent that Daniel himself has had a bash at rewriting it,’ says my man with the vodka martinis. ‘It’s total creative turmoil.’

To be clear, the Daily Mail has a journalistic reputation that would be tactfully described as uneven. However, the U.K. publication has published a number of 007 scoops proven to be correct. On the other hand, most of those were written by Baz Bamigboye, who has been MIA (as far as 007 stories are concerned) since SPECTRE went into production Dec. 8.

The only reason we mention this is because SPECTRE has had a dicey scripting process. The first writer was John Logan. Because of the Sony hacking, it’s now known Logan’s initial efforts contained some questionable ideas.

Logan was replaced by 007 veterans Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (something that Bamigboye originally reported last year), with some polishes by playwright by Jez Butterworth.

Also, it should be noted that Craig said in 2011 he and director Marc Forster did uncredited rewrites for 2008’s Quantum of Solace.