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With all the big movies hitting this year, some may have forgot we’ve got a new MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE film coming out this summer. Thankfully a new “teaser” for the first trailer has hit today, and unlike most of these teasers for a full trailer, this one actually has a lot of meat to it. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION explores the idea of a team assigned to take out the good guys, a sort of anti-hero team. Tom Cruise is back, as is Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames and Jeremy Renner, joined by Alec Baldwin, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Simon McBurney and Jingchu Zhang. Christopher McQuarrie (JACK REACHER) takes the director chair, J.J. Abrams is producing with a screenplay by Drew Pearce (IRON MAN 3). You know what I love about this trailer? The lack of obvious CGI. Instead we get a lot of real (and likely very dangerous) stunts… yes, that really is Tom Cruise hanging on a plane. The full trailer is coming tomorrow, but for now get a solid taste of what we’re in for this summer. Looks like exciting stuff!
The new flick finds Hunt’s highly effective but destructive Impossible Mission Force (IMF) disbanded by vengeful Washington bureaucrats such as the CIA chief (played by Alec Baldwin). But Hunt pulls his team together (Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames and newcomer Rebecca Ferguson) to battle the shadowy force known as “The Syndicate” and its elusive leader (Sean Harris).
Born and raised in Dallas, Mark has been a movie critic since 1994, with reviews featured in print, radio and National TV. In 2001 he started the Entertainment section of the Herorealm website, where he contributed film reviews and celebrity interviews until 2004. After three years of service there, he started Bigfanboy.com, which has become one of the Dallas film community's leading information websites. Bigfanboy hosts several movie screenings in the Texas area, and works closely with film and TV studios and promotional partners to host exciting events and contests. The site also features a variety of rare celebrity and filmmaker interviews, and Bigfanboy.com regularly covers the film festival circuit as well. In addition to Hollywood reporting, Mark has worked for many years as an advertising and sci-fi/comic book artist. Clients have included Lucasfilm Ltd., Topps Trading Cards, The Dallas Mavericks and The Dallas Stars. From 2002 until 2015 he managed the Dallas Comic Con, Sci-Fi Expo and Fan Days events in the DFW area. He currently catalogs rare comic books and movie memorabilia for Heritage Auctions, and runs the Dallas Comic Show conventions, but remains an avid moviegoer and cinema buff. 
