On Location: The Orient Express Goes Off the Rails in ‘Mission: Impossible 7'

"Then, there’s Doge’s Palace, the Palazzo Ducale, which is an incredibly popular tourist spot. But they do rent it out for private parties at night like you see in the film, and our locations team basically did that so we could throw a party and film it. It was a race against time each evening, because once they shut the doors on the tourists we would have just a couple hours to prep the location. A particular challenge was all the candles that we placed around the perimeter of the building—Venice as a whole is effectively an ancient monument and it’s been built mostly out of wood, and so we weren’t allowed to use double-wick candles as we wanted. Those are LED candles that we could control with a remote."