The Mission: Impossible franchise might not be entirely over; it’s virtually a guarantee we’ll see another movie at some point, but the one thing we know with some certainty is that any future movies will not include Tom Cruise. That means no other great collaborations with great directors from Briand DePalma to John Woo to Christopher McQuarrie.
It also means that new collaborations between Cruise and other great directors will never happen, which, as it turns out, is the real travesty, because apparently, Cruise’s Magnolia director, Paul Thomas Anderson, would have loved to direct Cruise in a Mission: Impossible film. He tells Le Figaro (translated from French via The Playlist)...
