Att det sker "reshoots" och att filmteam backar bandet och gör om saker efter att första klippningen testats mot fokusgrupper och testpublik är inget knepigt, det sker inom alla storfilmsproduktioner - hela tiden. Att man står haltande utan fungerande nyckelscen och tvingas filma om rubbet i huvudrollsinnehavarens garage, är dock klart mindre vanligt. Men så gick det till när regissören Christopher McQuarrie sydde ihop de sista och viktigaste delarna av bioaktuella actiondräparen Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, vilket han pratat med filmtidningen Empire om.
Christopher McQuarrie:
"The focus groups and the test screenings were just not getting the Marie story. And I realized we were just being too clever by half, we're just not laying it out... That entire Mission briefing scene came together in the course of a week and was shot in a day. Except for the inserts, which we shot in Tom's garage in Florida because there was a missing element. First, we raced to shoot the inserts and anything you race to shoot just looks like sh-t. It was the longest day on the movie, it was the last day on the movie. I realized when putting the scene together that I had the key, I had Isla, I had the bounty hunters, and we had been struggling with what those flashbacks to Marie meant...
I was in the editing room. I cut in the Marie footage and went, '30 years ago you were given a choice.' I just laid it out. Stop trying to ask the audience to figure it out and just effing tell them, they want to know. I called Tom and I just went, 'We f--ked up. There's one very important photo that's missing.' I said, 'We need a mugshot.' It's not enough to say it in the abstract. We need this picture. That triggered - once I was shooting one photograph, well, might as well reshoot them all. So we brought a desk and some flooring and that bag and some photos and a gun, all the basic props, and went to Tom's garage in Florida. We had a splinter crew go and reshot everything"