<Tr> <Td>--Brad Bird describing the advantages of filming in the IMAX format . </Td> </Tr> <P> Principal photography took place from October 2010 to March 2011 . Filming took place in Mumbai, Prague, Moscow, Vancouver, Bangalore, and Dubai . Tom Cruise performed a sequence where Ethan Hunt scales the outside of the Burj Khalifa tower, which is the world's tallest building, without the use of a stunt double . Although Cruise appears to be free solo climbing in the film with the help of special gloves, in reality, he was securely attached to the Burj Khalifa at all times by multiple cables . Industrial Light & Magic digitally erased the cables in post-production . Following Cruise's example, Patton and Seydoux also chose to forgo the use of stunt doubles for their fight scene at the Burj Khalifa where Carter exacts her revenge upon Moreau for Hanaway's death . </P> <P> Many of the film's interior scenes were shot at Vancouver's Canadian Motion Picture Park, including a key transition scene in a specially equipped IMF train car and the fight between Hunt and Hendricks in a Mumbai automated multi-level parking garage (which was constructed over a six - month period just for the film). The film's climax scene was shot with Indian film actor Anil Kapoor in the Sun Network office in Bangalore . Also, the film's opening Moscow prison escape scenes were shot on location in a real former prison near Prague . </P> <P> Bird, having directed several Disney and Pixar films and short films, incorporated the trademark "A113" into the film on two separate occasions . The first is the design print on Hanaway's ring during the flashback sequence, and the second being when Hunt calls in for support and uses the drop callsign, Alpha 1 - 1 - 3 . </P>

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