birdseyecircus Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 A bit of income for the railway. https://www.thescarboroughnews.co.uk/news/people/video-tom-cruise-films-at-levisham-on-the-north-york-moors-for-his-latest-movie-mission-impossible-7-3207564 Paul 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdseyecircus Posted April 22, 2021 Author Share Posted April 22, 2021 More views https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9496231/amp/Tom-Cruise-58-clings-train-filming-stunt-scene.html One of two class 66s that was sent up to nymr on a low loader pushing a modified steamer. Paul 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MrTea Posted April 23, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 23, 2021 Based on this clip I’d say this is a strong contender for inclusion in the Hornby 2022 range! 2x Railroad 66s - check! Container flats - got some ancient Triang mouldings knocking around somewhere! Wagon Lits coaches that were on the cover of the 2018 catalogue - ooh maybe, just maybe! Recycled tender drive Britannia rebranded for the Steampunk range - obviously! They could probably even get away with a 1:87 scale Tom Cruise I just hope Rapido haven’t already secured the rights... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Tom Cruise is getting a bit old for this kind of thing! Brian. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MrTea Posted April 24, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 24, 2021 8 hours ago, brianusa said: Tom Cruise is getting a bit old for this kind of thing! Brian. True. I hope I look as good as he does when I hit 58! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9503839/Tom-Cruise-offers-wave-joins-girlfriend-Hayley-Atwell-star-Pom-Klementief.html 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 10 hours ago, MrTea said: Based on this clip Arrghh! Shooting video in portrait format is bad enough, but when the subject is a train...words fail me. 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted April 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 24, 2021 Why do they need the 66s ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddy water Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 (edited) To drive the train. It is a stage prop. If they are filming in the cab of the steam engine there will be no room for the real crew. Also at a different location it will be pushed off a bridge...! Edited April 24, 2021 by muddy water 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted April 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 24, 2021 1 minute ago, muddy water said: To drive the train. If they are filming in the cab of the steam engine there will be no room for the real crew. Also at a different location it will be pushed off a bridge...! No sorry I meant why 66s and not something the railway has? Shame the 66s aren't being pushed off a bridge! 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TravisM Posted April 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 24, 2021 Wasn't the "Brit" built in Sweden? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted April 24, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 24, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, muddy water said: To drive the train. It is a stage prop. If they are filming in the cab of the steam engine there will be no room for the real crew. Also at a different location it will be pushed off a bridge...! Darlton Quarry in Derbyshire. Edited April 24, 2021 by newbryford 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdseyecircus Posted April 24, 2021 Author Share Posted April 24, 2021 It's a bit surprising that they are going to the expense of doing the train crash stunt for real instead of CGI. Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 55 minutes ago, birdseyecircus said: It's a bit surprising that they are going to the expense of doing the train crash stunt for real instead of CGI. Paul Possibly cost and almost certainly so they don't have people like me in twenty years time pointing out how old fashioned the CGI looks. CGI dates very quickly, realistically filmed sequences don't. Watch the first of the Star Wars prequels to see what I mean. Looked fantastic when it first came out and was even Oscar nominated, but parts of it looks like a poor quality computer game now. By it's nature these films need big box office takings, but need to still be relevant in forty years time so they still make money by being shown on SKY, Netflix, etc. A lot of those movies that are CGI heavy are going to need costly revamps at one point. Just to make them more palatable for modern audiences. Jason 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 On 24/04/2021 at 17:10, birdseyecircus said: It's a bit surprising that they are going to the expense of doing the train crash stunt for real instead of CGI. Paul I think it's because Cruise prefers practical effects on his films, that's why he's often doing the mad stunts for real. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Boar Fell Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 1 hour ago, montyburns56 said: I think it's because Cruise prefers practical effects on his films, that's why he's often doing the mad stunts for real. Supposedly he's also going to do some filming on the International Space Station, although not for a future Mission Impossible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 5944 Posted April 26, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26, 2021 On 24/04/2021 at 11:12, russ p said: No sorry I meant why 66s and not something the railway has? Shame the 66s aren't being pushed off a bridge! Not enough locos (37 is undergoing repairs), plus the line is currently blocked between Grosmont and Goathland due to a landslip. Plus it's probably easier to have a couple of dedicated locos and GBRf crews at the film company's beck and call. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TravisM Posted April 26, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26, 2021 (edited) I think Tom Cruise has considerable influence regarding the MI franchise, both financially and during production. It kind of reminds of the film “Airplane” and the clip of the poster “Rocky++++++” with a withered old man wearing a pair of boxing gloves. Are we going to see something similar with Tom Cruise in MI 61 in a Zimmer frame Edited April 27, 2021 by jools1959 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Simon Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 On 24/04/2021 at 11:12, russ p said: No sorry I meant why 66s and not something the railway has? Probably the insurers for the film don't want to insure a historic / vintage loco for the duration of it's use. Simon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted April 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2021 3 hours ago, St. Simon said: Probably the insurers for the film don't want to insure a historic / vintage loco for the duration of it's use. Simon They are using historic infrastructure to run it on Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 On 25/04/2021 at 20:39, Wild Boar Fell said: Supposedly he's also going to do some filming on the International Space Station, although not for a future Mission Impossible. with the 66s ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike Bellamy Posted April 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2021 The train is going to end up at the bottom of a quarry in Derbyshire. Click Here for link to local news report Click Here for a number of photos of work in the quarry . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted April 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2021 4 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said: with the 66s ? Let's hope so! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MrTea Posted April 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2021 Footage of the ‘Euro Britannia’ film prop loco making its way through the streets of Pickering earlier: Amazing what you can knock up in a shed within a lathe and enough balsa wood! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium t-b-g Posted April 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2021 I passed the loco and tender on a pair of low loaders on the motorway probably about 6 months ago and although I was within a few feet of it, I couldn't tell if it was a "dressed up" Britannia or a total fake. It was very convincing. Are the whereabouts of both "real" Britannias accounted for or might there be a real one dressed up for some shots plus a newly made prop for the film, for destructive purposes? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 A deliberate double of a fake? That sounds plausible, otherwise they would have made it look like a real Continental locomotive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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