Christopher McQuarrie Isn't Ready To Direct Mission: Impossible 7

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

foreign mission : Impossible - Falloutdirector Christopher McQuarrie is n’t quick to commit to helmingMission : Impossible 7just yet . A 7th installment in the ' 60s TV show twist Tom Cruise smash hit franchise is expect to be officially unripe - lit in the near future .

McQuarrie is in a unique location when it come to this particular big sieve property . Not only is he the first director to helm more than a singleMission : Impossiblemovie ( having now called the shot on bothFalloutand 2015’sRogue Nation ) , he ’s also the first to really serialize the dealership , after previous filmmakers took a more occasional attack with their entries ( certain recur characters aside).Rogue NationandFalloutform an overarching story between them that appears to fix the stage for the final showdown between Cruise ’s Ethan Hunt , his IMF squad , and the villain Solomon Lane ( Sean Harris ) inMission : Impossible 7 . Turns out , this is something McQuarrie ’s collaborator have already fetch to his attention .

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During his interview withEmpire Magazinefor their Film Podcast , McQuarrie revealed that even his own editor program suggested thatMission : Impossible 7should be the conclusion to his " trilogy " , back during post - production onFallout . However , the filmmaker wants to take a break before he agrees to making anotherMission : Impossiblefilm , specially now thatFallouthas been all - but universallydeclared the skilful action movie of 2018 by criticsand worldwide moviegoers alike :

" [ Fallout editor in chief ] Eddie Hamilton , every day in the editing elbow room was like , ' Come on , man , it ’s obviously a trilogy you ’re coming back , you have to complete it , you did n’t kill Lane , ' and I was like , ' It ’s somebody else ’s job . ' Tom [ Cruise ] has asked , the studio has asked , and I was like , ' You cognize maybe I ’ve got an thought for … ' and then the reviews come out and I was like , ' Get outta here . Just stop . ' I mat so bad for the director of [ Mission : Impossible ] 6 and I feel even bad of the director of 7 . I ’d rather have leprosy than be in the position of the person having to confront the pressure of the hyperbole of this motion-picture show on their first day of sprout the cinema . It ’s too much to confront . I ’d need a farsighted nap before I could reflect it . "

At the minute , McQuarrie does n’t have any directorial projects line up to followFallout . It stands to reason thatMission : unsufferable 7won’t reach dramaturgy any sooner than 2021 anyway , seeing asRogue NationandFallouthad the quickest turnaround between films in the serial publication to date ( 3 years ) . That should give the filmmaker metre to reload his batteries and decide if he wants to turn his attention elsewhere or try and outdo his own efforts by tackling a seventh " impossible mission " that could repeat as not only a conclusion to his trilogy , but a finale to the orotund enfranchisement .

Tom Cruise Christopher McQuarrie and Rebecca Ferguson on the Mission Impossible Fallout set

pay the vivid nature ofhis stunts on theMission : Impossiblefilms , it stands to understanding that even the most - invincible Cruise might only have one more " impossible mission " left in him , visualize as he just turn 56 back in July . Therefore , it would be all the more fitting for McQuarrie to be the one who sends Cruise as Ethan Hunt riding off ( okay , hanging onto a spaceship is more likely ) into the sunset , withMission : Impossible 7.Fallout ’s solid political campaign at the box officehas all but guaranteed that a 7th celluloid in the series will happen , so now it ’s on McQuarrie to decide if he want to be in the driver ’s prat on that one or to pass the figural nerve mask on to someone else .