‘Mission: Impossible 8’ Director Says Someone ‘Almost Had a Heart Attack’ Watching Action Sequence at Early Screening: ‘I Guess We Did Something Right’
variety.comAlex Ritman Anyone planning to watch “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” may want to have a health checkup beforehand.
According to director Christopher McQuarrie, the final instalment of the Tom Cruise‘s hit spy franchise — films that have become known for upping the crazy with each title when it comes to stunts — has a sequence that gave at least one early audience member more than just a shock. “We had a small screening, and someone said, ‘I was suffocating throughout the entire sequence.
I almost had a heart attack,'” he told Empire magazine in an interview, according GamesRadar. “And I thought, ‘I guess we did something right.” While the sequence in question wasn’t revealed, the trailer for the “Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning” sees Cruise scuba dive and explore a wrecked submarine, fly and fall out of a biplane and, naturally, do a lot of running.
In “Dead Reckoning,” the first of “Mission Impossible’s” two-part finale, Cruise’s Ethan Hunt finds himself up against a dangerous AI program called The Entity that seems to predict his every move and could cause disaster if it falls into the wrong hands.
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