Cruise, McQuarrie Tease Final “Mission Impossible”

This Summer sees “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” hitting cinemas, the eighth film overall and the apparent final one for the franchise. Or is it?

Filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise sat down with Empire for an upcoming issue and discussed the movie at large and more importantly its place in the overall saga.

Though the movie serves as the concluding part of the two-parter that began with “Dead Reckoning,” filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie calls it something bigger:

“It is, I hope, the satisfying conclusion to a 30-year story arc. I’m pretty confident that people are going to feel that the title was appropriate.”

So what exactly will be Ethan Hunt’s final reckoning? Star Tom Cruise says:

“You gotta see the movie… It’s a hard thing for me to discuss at the moment, because it really is something that you have to experience… [it’s] an epic, emotional journey of the entire franchise.”

The stunt sequence in which Cruise clings to the wing of a 1930s biplane was shot in South Africa and things got hairy at times. Cruise says:

“When you stick your face out, going over 120 to 130 miles an hour, you’re not getting oxygen. So I had to train myself how to breathe. There were times I would pass out physically; I was unable to get back into the cockpit.”

McQuarrie also says there’s one stunt that’s bigger than both the biplane sequence and the underwater elements seen in the trailers. Of that stunt, McQuarrie says: “I truly want to puke thinking about the stress. It was intense.” That we’ll have to wait and see.

Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariella Garriega, Holt McCallany, Hannah Waddingham, Nick Offerman, Janet McTeer, Angela Bassett and Shea Whigham also star in the new film which opens in May.

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