The collaboration between Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise is not ready to stop! After “Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning” the two men have other joint and sometimes very surprising projects …
While Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the last part of the saga started in 1996, has just released in theaters, Tom Cruise and the director Christopher Mcquarrie is already working on several joint projects.
The filmmaker, already at the Jack Reacher controllers and the last four films of the Mission franchise: impossible, is also the screenwriter of Top Gun: Maverick. He is currently working on the story of Top Gun 3, that Joseph Kosinski, director of the second opus, should again stage.
During a long interview with Josh Horowitz in the show HAPPY SAD ConfusedChristopher McQuarrie spoke of his future projects with Tom Cruise – and some are surprising to say the least.
A film without dialogue
Among them, an almost silent film, initially imagined before the mission saga: impossible, to which Tom Cruise is now attached.
The filmmaker explains: “In the whole film, Tom would embody a rather stoic character, he pronounces less than 500 words. Everything goes through action, behavior, non-verbal. And the character with whom he forms a duo speaks even less than him.
It is very difficult to do, but also exciting. The public does not like free exhibition – and he is right. There is a real art to pass the information without explanatory dialogues. “
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A film on … the Grossman of Tonnerre in the Tropics!
Another amazing project: a film centered on the Grossman, the cult character embodied by Tom Cruise in Tonnerre under the tropics.
In 2008, Ben Stiller brought together Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, Matthew McConaughey, Steve Coogan, Nick Nolte and Tom Cruise for a completely crazy action comedy. Tom Cruise appeared there less than 5 minutes in a memorable role. He embodied the Grossman, the producer of the film. Grimed, the actor appeared with the bald skull with an overweight. A striking role that remains one of the funniest of the career of the Action Star.
Christopher McQuarrie “explain : The conversations that we had around the Grossman are to die of laughter. It's serious. We really talk about it. We discuss the best way to do it, and where, and how. “
We really talk about it.
But would an entire film around the character be viable? The director and his favorite actor actively think about it.
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“Tom would be the first to say that playing a main role implies different responsibilities. In Magnoliahe plays a secondary character. It can afford the things that a protagonist could not. Ethan Hunt, for example, is so framed. He has very little room for maneuver: he must remain in the rails of the classic hero. As soon as we try to get out of it, mission: impossible stops being mission: impossible. »»
McQuarrie continues: “You have to understand the difference between a first role and a supporting role, between a “Character actor” and a traditional cinema hero. We think about what Grossman would be in the face of a specific situation, how he would react, what he would do. But we do not yet think of the structure. We have fun with scenes, we improvise, we play.
Sits with Tom at the breakfast table, not to talk about the film you shoot but just relax and make impros with the Grossman … It was one of the real pleasures of this production. We imagined the future while struggling with the present. “
It remains to be seen if all these projects will see the light of day. On the other hand, they testify to one thing: the collaboration between Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie is not ready to stop.
