Mission: Impossible 8 might not be Tom Cruise's final outing as Ethan Hunt, after all. At least according to the film's director Christopher McQuarrie.
While appearing on the Light the Fuse podcast, the director was asked whether this would be the last we see of Ethan Hunt. And while he didn't confirm or deny anything, his answer seemed optimistic.
"Let me tell you, I've been working with Tom Cruise for 15 years and I cannot tell you the number of times I've been standing next to the man, witnessed an event and then read about it in the trades the next day and none of what they describe is actually true," he said.
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"We were in Birmingham shooting a scene between Tom and Haley [Atwell]. The next day I read an article in the paper that said Tom and four other guests went out to dinner at an Indian restaurant," he said, launching into an example.
"I read that Tom insisted on sitting at a table not in a private room but in the main restaurant with the other diners and that Tom ordered three orders of chicken masala because he liked it so much.
"I called Tom the next day and said, 'There's something weird about this article. It’s 100% factually correct!' That's the first time I've read an article in which everything happened exactly as written," he added.
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McQuarrie then cautioned fans to not believe everything they read.
"I read that Mission [Impossible] was going to be shot concurrently and then we decided not to do that," he said.
"When you read articles in the trades, just put the imaginary word in front of the headline: 'The Agenda Is…' When you read 'anonymous sources' or 'sources close to the production say,' that's somebody putting it out there for a specific reason.
"That's someone wanting others to think that for a specific reason, and you can never know for sure what those reasons are. You learn to ignore it and laugh at it. In today's world, you wait 17 minutes and another news cycle will sweep it away," he added.
Mission: Impossible 7 currently has a scheduled release date of July 14, 2023.
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