Following the success of Mission: Impossible - Fallout, there was little surprise when it was confirmed that more movies were on the way. What was perhaps a little surprising was that two Mission: Impossible movies were confirmed at the same time, and that they would be two halves of a single story. While splitting a story across more than one film is certainly not entirely unheard of, it’s a rare decision for a number of reasons, and it sounds like Tom Cruise wasn’t always a fan.
Speaking on the official Mission: Impossible podcast Light the Fuse, Tom Cruise explained that the idea of splitting Dead Reckoning in half, which was done in order to literally allow each movie to have less plot so that the visual storytelling could be a greater focus, was the right thing to do. However, writer/director Christopher McQuarrie took issue with Cruise’s positive comments, saying that during filming, the actor wasn’t always quite so positive. McQuarrie said…
