Caffeinated Clint
It’s confirmed : Christopher McQuarrie will be back at the helm of the next “Mission : Impossible” installment.
The “Usual Suspects” scribe is the first filmmaker to helm two films in Paramount’s money-spinning movie series.
Each film, beginning with the original Brian De Palma directed 1996 movie, has had a different director – if even to give each instalment fresh eyes and a distinctively separate tone from the one that came before. Tom Cruise’s fondness for McQuarrie – who he worked with on “Edge of Tomorrow” (he wrote it), “Jack Reacher” (he wrote and directed) and the upcoming Top Gun 2 (McQuarrie wrote and is reportedly in the mix to direct the late Tony Scott at the helm) – and the success of his first, “Mission : Impossible – Rogue Nation”, seems to have led to the filmmaker’s return.
McQuarrie himself confirmed his return on Twitter, posting simply “Mission: Accepted #MI6”.
Cruise will return as Ethan Hunt in the sixth instalment, with Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner and Ving Rhames likely back on the IMF books too. Skydance again produce.
Mission: Accepted
#MI6
— ChristopherMcQuarrie (@chrismcquarrie) November 30, 2015
