Ethan Hunt has been through a lot over the course of the last six Mission: Impossible movies, both physically and emotionally. We mostly remember the physical trials like hanging from buildings and HALO jumping out of airplanes, but we should not forget the, perhaps equally, perilous love life of Ethan Hunt. But if fans are hoping for any sort of happily ever after, writer/director Christopher McQuarrie is indicating that’s just not where things can go for Tom Cruise’s character.
Ethan Hunt has had romantic entanglements throughout his on-screen life and he’s even been married, but at the current place in the story, the romantic tension is between him and Ilsa Faust, played by Rebecca Ferguson. The trailer for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning: Part One, hints that the pair may be getting closer in the new film, but director Christopher McQuarrie told Empire that he has little interest in this being a conventional love story, and things are far more complicated. He explained…
