Hollywood superstarTom Cruiseis not concerned with winning awards or endearing the Academy, withMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Onedirector Christopher McQuarrie detailing the actor’s desire and dedication to making “mass entertainment.” Speaking withThe Times, McQuarrie revealed details of his first meeting with Cruise, who made it clear that he is in the business of making quality movies for everyone.
“I make mass entertainment. There is an outsized importance placed on Oscars…Films that not many people are going to see. A wedge has been driven into the industry. Are you an artist or an entertainer? Tom doesn’t see them as mutually exclusive.”
Cruise’s commitment to the movie business, and particularly getting audiences to see them on the big screen, has becomeeven clearer of latewith the emergence of streaming releases amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The actor, who remains of the biggest names in Hollywood, has fought hard to get people back to the movies, with McQuarrie confirming his love for bringing artistic entertainment to as many people as possible.
This passion was further confirmed by Cruise’sMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Oneco-star Hayley Atwell, who revealed that Cruise had a line in the action sequel changed when he became concerned that audiences might not understand it.
“He doesn’t want to make movies now to punish an audience…He doesn’t want films with the message that if you do not understand this you’re not smart.”
Keeping everyone in mind while making a movie on the scale ofMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Onecan be no easy task, but clearly Tom Cruise strives to bring entertainment excellence to theaters.
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InMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embarkon their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Onepremiered last month, and criticshave heaped praiseon the mass entertainment that the action follow-up delivers.Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Onenow sits at a near-perfect 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics loving the “world-threatening stakes and epic set pieces” whileMovieWeb’s own Julian Romanconcludes that “Tom Cruise is a guaranteed commodity in delivering blockbuster popcorn cinema.”
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen, and starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Esai Morales, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff, and Henry Czerny,Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Oneis scheduled to be released in the United States on June 19, 2025, by Paramount Pictures.
