Tom Cruise was considered to be aging in the opening sequence of 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning'
Tom Cruise was considered to be aging in the opening sequence of 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning'
July 13, 2023 8:43 p.m.
Tom Cruise appears ageless in his films. But Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie was set to aging Cruise as a gimmick in the new film's opening sequence.
The process was recently seen in the latest Indiana Jones movie, where 81 Year-old Harrison Ford rolled back the odometer. At 61, Cruise is still immune to that. But the sequence where it would have been used would have taken place more than 30 years ago.
McQuarrie told GamesRadar he decided against it for Mission: Impossible because the process produces inconsistent results. Worse, he was distracted by seeing a younger version of Ethan Hunt's character.
"Originally there was a whole sequence at the beginning of the movie that was going to take place in 1989," McQuarrie said. "We talked about it as a cold open. We talked about it as flashbacks in the movie. We looked at aging.
"One of the great things about [aging] that I was looking at during my research, I kept saying, 'Boy, this de-aging is really good' or 'This de-aging isn't that good.' I never found myself following the story," he said. he declares. "I was so distracted by an actor I had known for so long that he was now suddenly this young."
On this film, the de-aging was not correct. But McQuarrie isn't abandoning him forever. McQuarrie says he's open to revisiting the aging process in the future. "I've cracked the code - I think - on how best to approach it," he said. “By then we had kind of moved away from it. We can still play with it. Never say never."
Tom Cruise appears ageless in his films. But Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie was set to aging Cruise as a gimmick in the new film's opening sequence.
The process was recently seen in the latest Indiana Jones movie, where 81 Year-old Harrison Ford rolled back the odometer. At 61, Cruise is still immune to that. But the sequence where it would have been used would have taken place more than 30 years ago.
McQuarrie told GamesRadar he decided against it for Mission: Impossible because the process produces inconsistent results. Worse, he was distracted by seeing a younger version of Ethan Hunt's character.
"Originally there was a whole sequence at the beginning of the movie that was going to take place in 1989," McQuarrie said. "We talked about it as a cold open. We talked about it as flashbacks in the movie. We looked at aging.
"One of the great things about [aging] that I was looking at during my research, I kept saying, 'Boy, this de-aging is really good' or 'This de-aging isn't that good.' I never found myself following the story," he said. he declares. "I was so distracted by an actor I had known for so long that he was now suddenly this young."
On this film, the de-aging was not correct. But McQuarrie isn't abandoning him forever. McQuarrie says he's open to revisiting the aging process in the future. "I've cracked the code - I think - on how best to approach it," he said. “By then we had kind of moved away from it. We can still play with it. Never say never."
