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The restrained Ethan sees Davian apparently holding Julia at gunpoint the full scene opens the movie. Musgrave arrives and explains that the woman killed by Davian was not Julia, but Davian's head of security Bahar Soomekh in a mask, executed for failing to protect Davian in Vatican City. The Julia-mask was used to force Ethan to confirm the authenticity of the Rabbit's Foot — and the real Julia is alive.

Musgrave reveals himself as the mole, having arranged for Davian to acquire the Rabbit's Foot to sell to a terrorist group so IMF would have reason to launch a pre-emptive strike. To convince Ethan to co-operate, Musgrave dials his phone for Ethan to hear Julia's voice to confirm she is alive.

Ethan bites on Musgrave's hand and knocks him unconscious, freeing himself and using Musgrave's phone with Benji's help to track down the location of Musgrave's last call. Ethan finds Davian and pushes him into the path of a truck, but not before Davian triggers the countdown of the micro-explosive. Freeing Julia, he instructs her to electrocute him, deactivate the explosive, and then revive him. He also instructs her in using a gun for her protection. While reviving Ethan, Julia fatally shoots Musgrave.

Julia successfully revives Ethan, and he explains his true IMF career to her as they leave. Back in the U. Ethan is unsure if he will return to the IMF. Brassel promises that he will tell Ethan what the Rabbit's Foot is if Ethan will promise to return.

Ethan smiles and walks off with Julia. Template:Quote box. In , director David Fincher was slated to direct the next installment of the Mission: Impossible film series for a summer of release date. After a dispute over the film's tone, Carnahan quit in July Abrams , offering the directorial role for the film after having binge-watched the first two seasons of Alias.

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He hired acclaimed director Brian De Palma to adapt the Mission TV series into a compelling feature film, and while that film had its own development issues De Palma and Cruise reportedly butted heads throughout production , it turned out to be a winner.

Cruise subsequently hired John Woo to take the helm of Mission: Impossible II and move the series into a radically different visual space, with Cruise aiming to blow out this franchise into a major blockbuster event.

Paramount Pictures was, understandably, eager to get going on Mission: Impossible 3 sooner rather than later, and while Cruise went and tackled the back-to-back productions of Vanilla Sky and Minority Report , he was also searching for the right filmmaker to steer Mission: Impossible 3. As it turns out, in he and Paramount settled on an exciting albeit surprising choice: David Fincher. The Fight Club filmmaker was just coming off the box office hit Panic Room and Cruise sparked to his strong visual talents as an exciting choice to helm Mission: Impossible 3.

And perhaps even more surprising, Fincher was interested in taking on another franchise film after his disastrous directorial debut experience on Alien 3. At that point, when you own a franchise like that, you want to get rid of any extraneous opinions.