The director behind Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible movies has reason to believe that audiences will feel the excitement behind what is supposedly the last film in the series.
Director Christopher McQuarrie, who worked with Cruise (62) on the action series dating back to 2015. Outlaw nationtold Empire magazine that he was an audience member at a recent early screening of the film Mission Impossible – The Final Showdown had a big reaction to one particular scene in the film, according to GamesRadar.
“We had a little screening and someone said, ‘I was choking during the whole sequence. I almost had a heart attack,'” said McQuarrie, 56. “And I thought, ‘I guess we did something good.'”
According to the outlet, McQuarrie also said the upcoming film features the “hardest thing” the production and Cruise have ever done in the franchise, though he did not specify if it was the same sequence in which an unnamed audience member “almost had a heart attack” during.
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Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie June 19, 2023
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Cruise can be seen diving underwater and entering a submarine, as well as flying a plane in moments teased during the trailer for the next Mission: Impossible movie, I thought it wasn’t clear if any of these moments were what McQuarrie was referring to when talking to Empire.
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Final reckoning has an impressive cast: Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, Shea Whigham, Pom Klementieff and Henry Czerny reprise their roles from 2023. Death reckoningand Nick Offerman, Bob Odenkirk, Janet McTeer, Hannah Waddingham and Katy O’Brian join the ensemble for Cruise’s final mission as Ethan Hunt.
The upcoming film began filming in Great Britain, Malta, South Africa and Norway in early 2022; production halted in July 2023 due to strikes by Hollywood writers and actors and resumed in March 2024. Final reckoning was originally called Dead Reckoning Part Twobut dropped that subtitle in October 2023.
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Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell and Christopher McQuarrie June 29, 2023
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Mission Impossible – The Final Showdown is in theaters on May 23. Cruise’s other upcoming successful projects include the third Top Gun film, as well as his ongoing project with A birder and Returnee directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Cruise has also planned to make a film in space in recent years; he last shared news about that untitled film at the premiere for Death reckoning in July 2023, when he said he was “working hard on it”.
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