Ving's near-miss

Ving Rhames’ trusty hacker Luther Stickell has gone on to become a mainstay in the ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise but that wasn’t always going be the case.

In earlier drafts, the character was killed off within the first 15 minutes alongside the rest of Ethan Hunt’s crew.

Ving recalled: "I remember saying to [Brian De Palma], ‘Look, why is it that the [black] man dies 15 pages into the [script]?’ I said that kind of jokingly, but it was the truth in many films."

The filmmaker rewrote the scene and Luther continues to be a presence in the franchise today.