History Trivia / MissionImpossible1996

* FakeNationality: Frenchman Creator/JeanReno as the Swiss Franz Krieger.

* DisownedAdaptation: The cast of the [[Series/MissionImpossible original TV series and its revival]] '''strongly''' disliked the film because it made [[spoiler:Jim Phelps]] the villain. Creator/PeterGraves was offered the part of [[spoiler:Phelps in the movie]], but turned it down in disgust (not to mention [[spoiler:how Phelps]] became similar to Graves' past role as Price from ''Film/Stalag17'', who was also TheMole and the BigBad). In addition, Creator/MartinLandau (Rollin Hand) and Greg Morris (Barney Collier) were also quite critical about the villain's identity, with Morris actually storming out of the movie theater in anger before the film actually ended (and died two months later of lung and brain cancer).

* ActorInspiredElement: The scene that takes place in a glass-walled restaurant with a big lobster tank in the middle and three huge fish tanks overhead was Creator/TomCruise's idea. There were 16 tons of water in all of the tanks and there was a concern that when they detonated, a lot of glass would fly around. Creator/BrianDePalma tried the sequence with a stuntman, but it did not look convincing and he asked Cruise to do it, despite the possibility that the actor could have drowned.

* DisownedAdaptation: The cast of the [[Series/MissionImpossible original TV series and its revival]] strongly disliked the film because it made [[spoiler:Jim Phelps]] the villain. Creator/PeterGraves was offered the part of [[spoiler:Phelps in the movie]], but turned it down in disgust (not to mention [[spoiler:how Phelps]] became similar to Graves' past role as Price from ''Film/Stalag17'', who was also TheMole and the BigBad). In addition, Creator/MartinLandau (Rollin Hand) and Greg Morris (Barney Collier) were also quite critical about the villain's identity, with Morris actually storming out of the movie theater in anger before the film actually ended (and died two months later of lung and brain cancer).

* DisownedAdaptation: The cast of the [[Series/MissionImpossible original TV series and its revival]] strongly disliked the film because it made [[spoiler:Jim Phelps]] the villain. Creator/PeterGraves was offered the part of [[spoiler:Phelps in the movie]], but turned it down in disgust (not to mention [[spoiler:how Phelps]] became similar to Graves' past role as Price from ''Film/Stalag17'', who was also TheMole and the BigBad). In addition, Creator/MartinLandau (Rollin Hand) and Greg Morris (Barney Collier) were also quite critical about the villain's identity, with Morris actually storming out of the movie theater in anger before the film actually ended.

* DisownedAdaptation: The cast of the original TV series and its revival strongly disliked the film because it made [[spoiler:Jim Phelps]] the villain. Creator/PeterGraves was offered the part of [[spoiler:Phelps in the movie]], but turned it down in disgust (not to mention [[spoiler:how Phelps]] became similar to Graves' past role as Price from ''Film/Stalag17'', who was also TheMole and the BigBad). In addition, Creator/MartinLandau (Rollin Hand) and Greg Morris (Barney Collier) were also quite critical about the villain's identity, with Morris actually storming out of the movie theater in anger before the film actually ended.

* DisownedAdaptation: Fans of the original TV series strongly disliked the film because it made [[spoiler:Jim Phelps]] the villain. Creator/PeterGraves was offered the part of [[spoiler:Phelps in the movie]], but turned it down in disgust (not to mention [[spoiler:how Phelps]] became similar to Graves' past role as Price from ''Film/Stalag17'', who was also TheMole and the BigBad). In addition, Creator/MartinLandau (Rollin Hand) and Greg Morris (Barney Collier) were also quite critical about the villain's identity, with Morris actually storming out of the movie theater in anger before the film actually ended.

* OrphanedReference: In the third act, Jim Phelps talks to Ethan and makes an accusation of a LoveTriangle regarding Claire. This was a subplot that was removed in the final edit, with the only reference being a fairly chaste moment with Claire shortly after the Langley heist. [[MissingTrailerScene A shot in the trailer did imply that something more had happened]].

* OrphanedReference: In the third act Jim Phelps talks to Ethan and makes an accusation of a LoveTriangle regarding Claire. This was a subplot that was removed in the final edit, with the only reference being a fairly chaste moment with Claire shortly after the Langley heist. [[MissingTrailerScene A shot in the trailer did imply something more did happen]].
* PlayingAgainstType: [[spoiler:Creator/JonVoight was cast as Jim Phelps because the producers thought that nobody would ever suspect him of being the villain]].

* ActorInspiredElement: The scene that takes place in a glass-walled restaurant with a big lobster tank in the middle and three huge fish tanks overhead was Creator/TomCruise's idea. There were 16 tons in all of the tanks and there was a concern that when they detonated, a lot of glass would fly around. Creator/BrianDePalma tried the sequence with a stuntman, but it did not look convincing and he asked Cruise to do it, despite the possibility that the actor could have drowned.

* DisownedAdaptation: Fans of the original TV series strongly disliked the film because it made [[spoiler:Jim Phelps]] the villain. [[spoiler:Creator/PeterGraves was offered the part of Phelps in the movie]], but turned it down in disgust (not to mention how Phelps on screen became similar to Graves' past role as Price from ''Film/Stalag17'', who was also TheMole and the BigBad like Phelps in the movie). In addition, Creator/MartinLandau (Rollin Hand) and Greg Morris (Barney Collier) were also quite critical about the film making Phelps the villain, with Morris actually storming out of the movie theater in anger before the film actually ended.