Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoningdirector Christopher McQuarrie shares the intense reaction one viewer had to a Tom Cruise stunt during an early screening for the film. Serving as a sequel to 2023’sDead Reckoning, the upcoming eighth installment in theMission: Impossiblefranchise features Cruise returning as superspy Ethan Hunt to finish his fight against Gabriel (Esai Morales) and The Entity.Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’s trailerhas already teased that the film will feature a handful of thrilling Cruise stunts, including underwater action and an aerial plane sequence.
During a recent interview withEmpire(viaGamesRadar+), McQuarrie reveals that one of Cruise’s stunts prompted an enthusiastic reaction during aMission: Impossible – The Final Reckoningscreening. According to the director,the upcoming movie features “the most difficult thing” they’ve ever donein the franchise, and it had one viewer overwhelmed with some pretty intense feelings while watching it. Check out McQuarrie’s comment below:
“We had a small screening and someone said,‘I was suffocating throughout the entire sequence. I almost had a heart attack.’ And I thought, ‘I guess we did something right.”
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The Final Reckoning’s Stunts Explained
The Final Reckoning’s first trailer has provided a fairly solid idea of what’s to come from the eighth and potentially finalMission: Impossiblemovie.The most notable sequence from the film looks to be an aerial action set piece involving byplanes, which was filmed in South Africa, with Cruise seen hanging onto a plane as it flies upside down. The film is also, however, set to include a notable underwater set piece involving the Sevastopol submarine, which the Entity sinks inDead Reckoning’s opening moments.
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After Hunt and his team learn of the Sevastopol submarine in theMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoningending, they will seemingly set out to find it in order to destroy the Entity. The trailer shows Cruise wearing scuba gear while exploring the wreck, in addition to another shot of him unconscious on the ocean floor. McQuarrie previously toldColliderthathe and Cruise both felt “dissatisfied” with the underwater set pieces inMission: Impossible – Rogue Nation(2015) andEdge of Tomorrow(2014), andThe Final Reckoningrepresents “the application of knowledge from previous sequences.”
McQuarrie served as writer/ director forRogue Nation, andhe wrote the screenplay forEdge of Tomorrow.
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Mission: Impossible 8 Will Deliver
IfThe Final Reckoningis indeed the finalMission: Impossiblemovie, Cruise and McQuarrie will definitely want to go out with a bang. Considering their strong track record thus far, the movie seems sure to succeed on this front. In addition to the major stunt sequences,audiences will also be in for at least one car chase, some fist fights, and a foot chase through London, all of which are sure to also be thrilling.
TheMission: Impossiblefranchise has been one of the most reliably entertaining action blockbuster franchises ever, and Cruise’s passion for entertaining audiences has been a major reason for this. It’s clear that he and McQuarrie will be pulling out all the stops for the next one, andMission: Impossible – The Final Reckoninglooks to be another incredible theatrical experience.
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning follows Ethan Hunt and his team as they pursue a formidable AI called the Entity that has compromised global intelligence networks. With new allies and a haunting figure from Hunt’s past in pursuit, they must act quickly to avert a global catastrophe.
