Tom Cruise Planning Musical With Mission: Impossible 7 Director Christopher McQuarrie

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Tom Cruise is a powerhouse actor known across the world as the go-to action star of his generation having taken on the role of Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible franchise which will be eight times by the time the two-part finale is released as well as shot his recent sequel to Top Gun, Maverick, to over a billion and counting at the global box office.

But what comes next for such a star—as he enters his 60s, Cruise is looking for projects that maybe strain his knees a little less and test his acting chops a little more, and he’s doing it with writer/director of the last four Mission: Impossible entries, Christopher McQuarrie by his side. Deadline is reporting that together they’ve got quite the line-up planned not least of which is the pair of them eyeing a musical, and possibly bringing back Cruise’s Tropic Thunder bullying studio exec, Les Grossman.

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Cruise and McQuarrie have been looking to their post Mission: Impossible future together, having already gotten underway on part 8 per recent photos. It’s life after spying that’s got their interest and there are three projects they keep talking about. The first is Cruise’s literally-set-in-space sci-fi actioner McQuarrie is producing and will be using Elon Musk’s Space X technology to pull off. The next is the musical that cruise wants to do, craving another go at the genre after his less-than-stellar Rock of Ages debut. The last would be something involving Cruise’s monstrous producer from Tropic Thunder, Les Grossman.

Tom Cruise has shown he's got all the right moves for a musical, whether it's his sock slide in Risky Business or his dance over the end credits ofTropic Thunder. There Cruise, as Les