A new project starring Tom Cruise has been teased by Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part 1 director Christopher McQuarrie.Dead Reckoning will be the seventh Mission: Impossible film. Cruise will return yet again as action hero Ethan Hunt, starring alongside Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, Rebecca Ferguson, and Hayley Atwell. The film’s stunts are already promised to be better than ever, with Atwell and other actors detailing their intense Mission: Impossible training processes during the film's production.
McQuarrie and Cruise have been frequent collaborators throughout their careers. Besides directingMission: Impossible 7 and its in-production follow-up Mission: Impossible 8, McQuarrie also worked on the two previous installments, 2015's Rogue Nation and 2018's Fallout. His partnership with Cruise extend beyond the world of Mission: Impossible, too; McQuarrie served as a screenwriter for Edge of Tomorrow,The Mummy, and Top Gun: Maverick, and as a director forJack Reacher.
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It looks like McQuarrie and Cruise will continue their partnership outside of the Mission: Impossible universe. In a recent interview with Light the Fuse podcast (via The Wrap), McQuarrie reveals that he and Cruise are planning to work on a project that the two have “talked about for a really long time.” According to McQuarrie, this film will be a departure from Cruise’s usual work, but a little more inside of McQuarrie’s own “wheelhouse.” Check out the full statement from McQuarrie below:
“It’s kind of under wraps. It has neither a fuse nor a fuselage. Oh that’s not true. It does have some fuselages. It’s something we’ve talked about for a really long time.
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