Tom Cruise and his iconic pop culture character, Ethan Hunt, are widely believed to be preparing to say their last goodbye in the last two Mission Impossible films, Dead Reckoning Part 1 and Dead Reckoning Part 2.
The reports emerged that Tom Cruise may be leaving the Mission Impossible franchise forever, which includes filming the last two entries in the long-running, highly successful and critically acclaimed action series. The last two Mission Impossible movies have been divided into two parts – Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 and Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 2. Tom Cruise and his iconic pop culture character, Ethan Hunt, are thought to be saying their final goodbyes in these two Mission Impossible films. Thankfully, Director Christopher McQuarrie has finally commented on the rumors.
Tom Cruise to leave the Mission Impossible franchise?
While on the ‘Light the Fuse’ Hollywood news podcast, Director Christopher McQuarrie said, “Let me tell you, I’ve been working with Tom Cruise for 15 years and I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve been standing next to the man, witnessed an event and then read about it in the trades the next day and none of what they describe is actually true. I called Tom the next day and said, ‘There’s something weird about this article. It’s 100% factually incorrect.’ When you read articles in the trades, just put the imaginary word in front of the headline.”
Filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie cites example to rebut rumours
Christopher McQuarrie explained what he meant, “We were shooting in Birmingham a scene between Tom and Haley [Atwell].” The next day I read an article in the paper that said Tom and four other guests went out to dinner at an Indian restaurant. I read that Tom insisted on sitting at a table not in a private room but in the main restaurant with the other diners and that Tom ordered three orders of chicken masala because he liked it so much.”
And joining Tom Cruise are also actors Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, Shea Whigham, Pom Klementieff, Esai Morales, Henry Czerny, Rob Delaney, Cary Elwes, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss, Charles Parnell, Greg Tarzan Davis and Frederick Schmidt.
