Director Christopher McQuarrie described their shooting experience as exciting and intense, saying that making a mission impossible is very much like watching a mission impossible.

As the first director to handle two films in the franchise, McQuarrie said in an interview last Wednesday afternoon that he thinks the greatest appeal of the series consists in the characters and stories.

Without the characters, it's all just spectacle, and it is the team and the sense of camaraderie that attract people to keep coming back, he said.

Benji Dunn portrayed by Simon Pegg, once a lab-technician, has become one of Ethan Hunt's trusted allies in the field.

Pegg told China.org.cn that he also learnt some new skills for this sequel, such as acting underwater and driving a speedboat, and he considers those new challenges really fun.

August Walker, an antagonist portrayed by Henry Cavil, has also added a fresh layer of excitement to this action-thriller. As Cavil said, while Hunt does everything with a moral code, Walker always makes sure the mission is completed no matter what the cost is.

In Cavil's eyes, his new role with a brash mustache is very complicated, because although he's definitely the darker part of one side, ultimately he does want the best for mankind.

"It's a lot of fun playing the other side of the coin and even more fun because the character is written so well," said Cavil.

The Paramount Pictures' film, debuted in China last Friday at the tail of China's summer film season, raking in a haul of 528 million yuan (US$77.5 million) during the three-day weekend and received rave reviews. IMAX China also announced it saw the best debut weekend record in August in Chinese market with "Fallout" which made 51 million yuan (US$7.5 million) at over 500 IMAX Chinese theaters.

Box office analysts currently project it will easily cross the 1-billion-yuan (US$147 million) milestone very soon and will be the highest-grossing installment of the franchise in China. The last installment "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" grossed 870 million yuan (US$135 million) in 2015.

Thanks to China's strong performance, "Fallout" has brought in nearly US$443 million internationally and its worldwide tally is reaching US$647 million so far, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com, only US$12 million behind "Rogue Nation" globally, which currently is the highest grossing worldwide release in the franchise.

"Mission: Impossible - Fallout" also marked another success of China's Alibaba Pictures, which collaborated with Paramount and has invested in the franchise again after it tasted success and made 68.7 million yuan (US$10 million) on its 25-million-yuan (US$3.6 million) investment in "Rogue Nation," according to media reports.

As to the possibilities of "Mission: Impossible 7," McQuarrie said he had some ideas, but he would keep them to himself, adding that everything in the film starts with a little idea, then gets bigger, crazier and more out of control.

"We never start with a big idea. We always start with something very small," McQuarrie said.

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