How Tom Cruise Fixed M:I Rogue Nation’s Ending With One Decision
Tom Cruise played an important role in how audiences saw the ending of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. The Mission: Impossible series has become Cruise's most bankable franchise after four decades of being a box-office superstar. Though the original Mission: Impossible film, based on the popular 1960s TV series, was a major release in 1996, the M:I franchise struggled to establish consistency through sequels directed by different filmmakers such as John Woo and J.J. Abrams. Once Christopher McQuarrie took the helm with 2015's Rogue Nation, the series rose both in quality and in success, with Rogue Nation grossing $683 million worldwide.
Even after the release of 2018's Mission Impossible: Fallout, many fans continue to argue that Rogue Nation is the strongest of the series. With its breathtaking locations, intense fight scenes, spectacular stunts, and the introduction of Sean Harris as intimidating villain Solomon Lane, the film has given fans of the Mission: Impossible series everything they could want in a spy flick. Pulling the film over the edge, though, is the memorably tense climax, involving a standoff with Lane as Simon Pegg's Benji Dunn has a bomb strapped to his chest. It's a satisfyingly thrilling end to a film - but it could have gone much differently.
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In an interview with the MLI-centric podcast LightTheFuse, McQuarrie speaks about the climax of Rogue Nation, and tells the hosts that Cruise himself dictated the execution of the final product. McQuarrie, while on a call with the podcast hosts, Cruise, andeditor Eddie Hamilton, recalls how the ending sequence was failing with test audiences until Cruise made a suggestion to
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