Director Discusses Rumours Of Tom Cruise Leaving ‘Mission: Impossible’ Franchise
etcanada.com“Mission: Impossible” director Christopher McQuarrie is urging fans not to believe everything you read about Tom Cruise. McQuarrie, who has directed the franchise films since 2015’s “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation”, would neither confirm nor deny the rumours of Cruise bowing out of the movies after the upcoming “Dead Reckoning – Part 1” and “Dead Reckoning – Part 2”.
Sources previously told Variety that the flicks, expected to be released in 2023 and 2024, will act as “a sendoff for Cruise’s Ethan Hunt character.” During an interview on the “Light the Fuse” podcast, McQuarrie insisted, “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,” Variety reported.
McQuarrie gave the following example: “We were in Birmingham shooting 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.” READ MORE: Tom Cruise Puts His Action Star Skills On Display While Paragliding “I called Tom the next day and said, ‘There’s something weird about this article.
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