Tom Cruise admired the Bubeneč sewage treatment plant

Prague - Hollywood actor Tom Cruise was filming on Sunday at the Ekotechnický Museum - the former wastewater treatment plant in Bubenč - for the movie Mission Impossible IV., which he is also producing.
    The director of the Ekotechnical Museum, Tomáš Věžník, told ČTK today that footage for the final moments of the action film was being shot in the underground area, which is a unique example of the history of technology and architecture from the early twentieth century. Cruise filmed the whole Sunday afternoon for about six hours with his 150-member crew.
    "For how short a shot it will be at the end of the film, it was very long," Věžník believes, adding that the Hollywood star was charmed by the Bubenč complex.
    Cruise first thoroughly inspected the former treatment plant last week. After filming, he took a moment to say goodbye to the museum staff. After a shower, he came to shake hands with the employees and thank them for their cooperation; he also signed the guestbook on the page with a glued joint photograph from the location scout. "It was clear that he was glad to be able to film in a building with such amazing architecture," Věžník stated.
    The museum had been preparing for the shoot all week since Cruise's visit; however, it was closed for filming preparations only on Friday and Saturday. Special sets were created at the back entrance of the building, and catering was provided for one and a half hundred people. The footage for the film's finale will be completed and edited in the Barrandov studios.
    In cooperation with local and famous foreign filmmakers, the employees of the Ekotechnical Museum are not newcomers. "More than 170 feature films and series have already been shot here," the director boasted.
    For example, Cruise's fellow countryman Wesley Snipes shot his vampire horror Blade here. The building's basement retained the staircase down which the hero Jean Valjean, played by Gérard Depardieu, fled during the filming of Les Misérables.
    "From Czech productions, it was Šakalí léta or Záhada hlavolamu," Věžník reminded. For an entire month, the museum was used for the yet-to-be-aired fantasy series of Czech Television Špačkovi v síti času.
    In recent days, Cruise has filmed, for example, in the Vyšehrad casemates or at Prague Castle. In the film directed by Brad Bird, Mission: Impossible IV., alongside Cruise, who plays the secret agent Ethan Hunt, who, according to some sources, is supposed to die in this story, will star Jeremy Renner, Michael Nyqvist, cult series Lost hero Josh Holloway, and Russian actor Vladimir Maškov.
    The film will primarily be shot in Dubai and also in Vancouver. The premiere is scheduled for mid-December next year.