Both writer/director Christopher McQuarrie and actor/producer Tom Cruise are hard at work filming “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two” right now. That hasn’t stopped them from making future plans though.
Speaking on the newest episode of the Light the Fuse podcast (via The Wrap), McQuarrie confirmed he is far from done working with Cruise with the pair already planning a post-‘Mission’ film together:
“It’s kind of under wraps. It has neither a fuse nor a fuselage. Oh that’s not true. It does have some fuselages. It’s something we’ve talked about for a really long time.
It’s way outside of what you’re used to seeing Tom do. It’s the kind of stuff I really love. It’s a little bit more in my wheelhouse. And yet it takes everything we’ve learned on this journey, which is making movies more and more about emotion and real emotional experiences.
That’s what you’re feeling when you’re watching ‘Top Gun’ – it’s me and Tom squeezing your adrenals for every emotion. Now we’re applying that to something that is gnarlier.”
McQuarrie and Cruise have been working colleagues for years now, the pair working in some capacity together on four “Mission Impossible” films, “Jack Reacher,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “The Mummy,” “Edge of Tomorrow,” and “Valkyrie”.
The pair will be seen again on screens in 2023 and 2024 with the release of the two “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning” films.