Apparently the show started out with them selecting different people for the missions, hence them going through files at the beginning to select agents. Eventually it just became the same team.
But as for the movies, yeah Cruise does all the fancy heroic crazy stuff in the field, but it still leans pretty heavily on Pegg and Rhames to get him to that point and providing Intel/gear… sometimes a long side him.
If I remember correctly, they thought they would rotate the cast a bit more, but in the end they ended up with a regular cast. Ironically, it was the leader who got switched out after the first season!
Apparently the show started out with them selecting different people for the missions, hence them going through files at the beginning to select agents. Eventually it just became the same team.
But as for the movies, yeah Cruise does all the fancy heroic crazy stuff in the field, but it still leans pretty heavily on Pegg and Rhames to get him to that point and providing Intel/gear… sometimes a long side him.
If I remember correctly, they thought they would rotate the cast a bit more, but in the end they ended up with a regular cast. Ironically, it was the leader who got switched out after the first season!
I’m way too young to have watched it but I did read the IMDb trivia!
Which apparently the first movie apparently pissed off fans of the show when it made Phelps the traitor