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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, featuring Tom Cruise, continues its successful run at the box office. The film has already grossed over $63 million worldwide, with a remarkable India nett of Rs 30.58 crore making it the highest-grossing opening film in the Mission: Impossible franchise in India.
After legendary director Brian De Palma created the first Mission: Impossible movie, backed by Cruise himself, the actor went on to produce three more MI movies with different directors: John Woo, J.J. Abrams, and Brad Bird respectively. Eventually, Christopher McQuarrie joined the franchise, and the partnership between Cruise and McQuarrie has been highly acclaimed and cherished as one of the most successful collaborations in Hollywood since then. Actor Simon Pegg, who has portrayed IMF technical field agent Benji Dunn since Mission: Impossible 4, has now spoken about the strong bond between Cruise and McQuarrie.
Likening them to the Beatles vocalists John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Pegg told Variety: “I think in Tom, he (McQ) has just found such a perfect creative partner, someone who can facilitate that way of working, can allow him to practice this extreme method of filmmaking. I remember when we were making Ghost Protocol and the script on that just wasn’t very focused, and Tom brought in McQ, a sort of master plumber to re-wriggle the pipes. And it was on that that their creative romance really took off.”
“They’re both eternal students of film and just methods of filmmaking, methods of storytelling, certain camera rigs. I remember when we shot Rogue Nation, we were still using film. The cameras were quite cumbersome. Now, you can put a camera on a motorbike and just send it off a cliff and go down and pick it out of the undergrowth. And they’re forever absorbing these new methods of telling the story,” he stated and added, “So I just think they found each other — in a way that Lennon and McCartney found each other if I could really hyperbolise.”
Elaborating on what makes McQuarrie’s creativity so special, Pegg said: “McQ allows the locations we go to, the characters, the actors he’s working with to help him tell the story. He’ll let the story be revealed to him by, say, looking at the streets of Rome or the canals of Venice.”
When asked about the progress of Dead Reckoning Part Two, Pegg said: “We’re not shooting in a pandemic, which means it’s not going to take quite as long as the last one did, which is a relief. I can tell you that we’ve already shot stuff which makes part one seem tame. To sit with an audience and watch Part One and know what’s coming, I feel this supreme sense of dramatic irony. It’s going to be extraordinary and surprising and also have the same degree of heart and character and attention to detail that Tom and McQ always bring.”
In her review of the film, The Indian Express’ Shalini Langer wrote: “As if resorting to the irritating and, frankly, greedy trend of splitting a film into two is not enough, as if the interminable length of 164 minutes of this part is not enough, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One fills up the time with endless talk.”
Helmed by Christopher McQuarrie, known for films such as The Way of the Gun (2000) and Jack Reacher (2012) apart from the MI films. Dead Reckoning Part One is the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible film series.
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