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For the new Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning movie, Paramount secured access to a real US aircraft carrier for the film’s climactic scenes with support from the Department of
Defense.
Tom Cruise and the cast spent three days aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, a nuclear-powered Nimitz-class carrier, during active training operations in the Adriatic Sea.
Supported by US Navy and Air Force Special Operations, the crew also filmed with tiltrotor CV-22 Ospreys and even a Virginia-class submarine.
While the US government has a history of supporting carefully vetted Hollywood projects, this collaboration granted rare access to advanced military hardware – all under strict operational
readiness.
The eighth Mission Impossible film, possibly the last in the franchise, came with a reported budget of US$400 million (A$600 million), with Paramount benefiting from reduced costs due to the
carrier already being on training operations.
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