Despite directing two of the three highest-grossing films in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Christopher McQuarrie is still hesitant to predict the success of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. In an interview with GamesRadar+ and Total Film, McQuarrie opened up about how his anxiety does not allow him to dwell on the accomplishments of his previous films. McQuarrie even expressed his fear surrounding the seventh Mission: Impossible film since he does not want to “let the franchise down.”
“I don’t take my position for granted. I don’t take the audience’s participation for granted,” McQuarrie said. “When we were making Top Gun: Maverick, I didn’t take for granted that people loved that movie or that it was a 35-year-old cultural institution. I looked at it with a very suspicious and cynical eye towards Hollywood’s tendency to make it a cash grab.
“So, everything I do is to constantly check myself and remind myself that it does not matter what you did before, this is the one you’re doing now,” McQuarrie continued. “I’m terrified of the result of Dead Reckoning, which lives in the shadow of Fallout, which lives in the shadow of Rogue [Nation], and Ghost [Protocol], and all the other movies that came before it. I don’t want to let the franchise down. I’m more frightened now than I was on my first Mission.”
What to Expect in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One?
Tom Cruise returns for the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise as the renowned IMF agent, Ethan Hunt. Along with his team – Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, and Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust – Ethan must stop a powerful terrorist from gaining access to a world-altering weapon.
“Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: to track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens humanity before it falls into the wrong hands,” the official synopsis reads. “With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.”
New cast members include Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, and Cary Elwes. Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge from the first Mission: Impossible.
Christopher McQuarrie expressed his fear surrounding Mission: Impossible 7 since he does not want to “let the franchise down.”
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is directed by McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. Dead Reckoning Part One opens in theaters on July 12.
