MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE Completely Changed After Edgar Wright Offered Feedback
After Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise screened Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One for Edgar Wright, he offered advice after watching it that McQuarrie says completely changed the movie. During an interview with Total Film, the director explained:
"Edgar came to one of the later screenings [of the film], and asked one simple question about a specific sound – kind of an audio cue – and I thought I’d addressed that note. It was so obvious to me. But it wasn’t obvious to Edgar.
"And when I asked the audience, it wasn’t obvious to them either. Nobody thought to bring it up until Edgar did. And that changed the entire movie. It changed the entire movie for the better. You just need honesty and clarity and awareness. No one person, Tom [Cruise] included, can really sit there, and look at the movie 24 hours a day, objectively. Tom and I will just look one another in the eye, and say, 'do we want to change this? Or is this what we prefer?'"
He does offer any specifics on the scene or sound that was addressed, but it must be a huge deal if it completely changed the entire movie! It doesn’t seem like it would be such a big deal, but McQuarrie makes sure to note that it was a huge deal! I wonder if it will be obvious to us when we actually get to see the movie ourselves.
In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, “Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on 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.”
The movie also stars Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, and Henry Czerny along with newcomers Shea Whigham (Joker), Pom Klementieff (Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Avengers: Infinity War) and Esai Morales (La Bamba, Titans), Charles Parnell, Indira Varma (Game of Thrones), Mark Gatiss, and Cary Elwes (Saw). Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation), Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds, Albert Nobbs), Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso), and Holt McCallany (Mindhunter, Nightmare Alley).
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One hits theaters on July 12th and Part Two is currently dated July 28th, 2024.