“He said, ‘I want to drive a motorcycle off of a cliff.
What do you want to do?’
And I said, ‘I want to wreck a train.’
Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson in ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’.Christian Black/Paramount Pictures and Skydance
I thought, I’ve earned that, I want to wreck one too.”
“A70-tontrain, yes,” McQuarrie, who produced the film with Cruise, tells EW.
Ethan is involved in something that he himself does not fully understand."
Tom Cruise and Vanessa Kirby in ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’.
“He’s something of an enigma.
You discover more about him over the course of the two movies.
“The less I tell you about Hayley Atwell, the better,” says McQuarrie.
Esai Morales in ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’.
From that point on, the shoot would be repeatedly delayed for pandemic-related reasons.
In December 2020,The Sunnewspaper releasedaudio of Cruise purportedly scolding crew members for breaking COVID protocols.
“That all took place during a very complicated and a very uncertain time,” says McQuarrie today.
Hayley Atwell and Tom Cruise in ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’.
“Obviously, we’re grateful that people took it the way that it was intended.
We’re still there doing that.
I’m just glad people understood the intention behind it.”
Which begs the question if McQuarrie and Cruise have a ninth movie in them.
“I am all set with trains until the end of time,” he says.
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part Oneopens July 12.
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