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Bradley Russell

Mission: Impossible director considered de-aging Tom Cruise – but thought it was too distracting

Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was almost joined by Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning in de-aging its lead for its opening set-piece.

"Originally, there had been a whole sequence at the beginning of the movie that was going to take place in 1989,” director Chris McQuarrie tells GamesRadar+ and Total Film. "We talked about it as a cold open, we talked about it as flashbacks in the movie, we looked at de-aging."

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