Tag: Christopher McQuarrie
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Christopher McQuarrie Explains The “Tough Decision” Of Killing A Key Character in ‘Dead Reckoning’
**Spoilers below for “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part 1.” You’ve been warned…**The threat of death is an underlying aspect of every ‘Mission: Impossible’ film. Honestly, that threat doesn’t just apply to the characters and their gunfights and elaborate car chases. The franchise’s star, Tom Cruise, regularly puts his own real life in danger in…
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Christopher McQuarrie Convinced Studio To Keep Expensive ‘Mission Impossible’ Sub Scene & Then Feared He Had To Cut It
The adage of Hollywood and or pundits who closely follow Hollywood, writers, armchair analysts, etc., is that you should always have a plan and never just “make it up as you go.” Filmmaking is such a massive endeavor and a massively expensive endeavor, a plan to execute all the ambitious things you want to do…
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Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Director on AI, Tom Cruise, and Part 2
Before Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One was released in theaters and IMAX, Collider’s Steve Weintraub conducted an extended interview with co-writer and director Christopher McQuarrie about his epic two-parter. The seventh Mission promises high stakes and even more death-defying stunts with Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt, and McQuarrie discusses why this penultimate operation surpassed…
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‘Mission: Impossible’ Star Simon Pegg Says Tom Cruise and Director Christopher McQuarrie Are Like ‘Lennon and McCartney’
Since “Mission: Impossible III” in 2006, Simon Pegg has been part of the core ensemble of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, playing hacker and sometime field agent Benji Dunn opposite its stalwart star Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. Pegg was never going to be the actor risking life and limb on screen — “it’s Benji’s job…
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Christopher McQuarrie’s First Movie as Director Is Still One of His Best
Long before director and writer Christopher McQuarrie was collaborating with Tom Cruise on Jack Reacher and numerous installments of the Mission: Impossible franchise, including the latest titled Mission: Impossible –Dead Reckoning Part One, he made his directorial debut with the underrated crime drama The Way of the Gun. The Oscar-winning screenwriter’s 2000 film is a…
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Haley Atwell On Making Up Her ‘Mission Impossible’ Character With Tom Cruise & McQ As They Went
Something that’s brought up in a new Happy Sad Confused podcast with “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning—Part One” star Hayley Atwell. The host of the podcast, Josh Horowitz, essentially says ‘Mission Impossible’ movies should not work. Unlike most films with a screenplay and plan, ‘Mission Impossible’ films do have a script, but they are incredibly malleable,…
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‘Mission: Impossible 7’: Shea Whigham & Greg Tarzan Davis on Train Sequence
Joining the Mission: Impossible saga is no joke, a lesson Shea Whigham and Greg Tarzan Davis learned quickly on the set of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. The duo board the franchise with writer-director Christopher McQuarrie and actor-producer Tom Cruise and get a crash course in the kind of “intense, beautiful” spectacle that…
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‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Almost De-Aged Tom Cruise Back to 1989, Director Axed the Idea: He’s ‘Suddenly This Young Person’ and ‘I Was So Distracted’
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” almost pulled an “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” by opening with an extended sequence featuring a de-aged version of its main star. “Dial of Destiny” de-aged Harrison Ford to mixed results for a 25-minute opener. “Dead Reckoning” director Christopher McQuarrie ultimately nixed an idea to de-age…
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‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Earns $16 Million Opening Day Box Office
The opening day box office numbers for the latest installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise are in, and they give a somewhat obscured look at an uncertain opening weekend for the film. According to the Deadline report, the Christopher McQuarrie directed Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One took in $16 million on its opening…
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‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Star Hayley Atwell Talks Hanging Off a Train With Tom Cruise and Female Representation in Action Movies
It’s 10 a.m. in Sydney, where Hayley Atwell is preparing to walk the red carpet as the “Mission: Impossible” crew’s newest member, joining producer and star Tom Cruise and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie’s ensemble of battle-hardened actors.“This is a pure cinematic experience. It’s unadulterated entertainment, and of a huge scale,” Atwell says to Variety about “Mission:…