![]() ![]() When I finished shooting Rogue Nation, I turned to Robert Elswit, the cinematographer, and I said, “I really feel sorry for the next son of a bitch who directs one of these movies cause I don’t know what’s left.” Then of course the joke was on me, because I was the next son of a bitch. About ten minutes later he came back in and said, “You’re directing Mission Impossible.” So, I never formally accepted the job. He picked up the phone, walked out of the room and called Brad Grey of Paramount Pictures. We were working on Edge of Tomorrow, and in the midst of a script session he said, “You know you should direct the next Mission Impossible!” A chill went down my spine. So, when Tom Cruise asked me to do Rogue Nation, I was very reluctant to do it. I saw Brad Bird going through what could only be described as a meat grinder. I came in midway through and was working on that movie. Why?Ĭhristopher McQuarrie: I had worked on Ghost Protocol. I hear you were kind of hesitant about that. It’s not your first time directing a Mission: Impossible film, and you’re the first director to come back. The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of Mission: Impossible – Fallout. ![]()
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