LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie’s latest flick, 'Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One' received a huge box office success. And the director took out some time to talk about the hit movie on Empire magazine's ‘Spoiler Special Film podcast’ recently. He shared that for a flashback scene, he wanted to bring in a leading actress from Hollywood, but then decided otherwise after calculating the cost they have to incur for a short role.
McQuarrie wishes to continue the legacy of the 'Mission Impossible' franchise by adding a few more editions to it. The director had now made the last three flicks in the fans-favorite action series. He gave the example of 'Indiana Jones' and how the lead actor Harrison Ford is still doing it at 80. But McQuarrie is also realistic and admitted that the human body has its own limit and it would be hard to imagine Cruise coming back each time and pulling off those incredible stunts.
Who did 'Mission: Impossible 7' director consider for flashback sequence?
During his podcast appearance, Christopher McQuarrie revealed that he wanted to bring the ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ star into the mix while shooting a flashback scene with Tom Cruise. "I said, 'OK, if I were doing this sequence, it would be Tom in, say, 1989,' " he said referring to the fact that the late Tony Scott would have done a great job directing a late '80s Mission: Impossible film, as per People.
"We looked at Days of Thunder and we looked at the style of it, and we started thinking what would it look like if Tony Scott had shot this, and who would it have been? I looked back at who was the ingenue, who was the breakout star in 1989? And right around then was Mystic Pizza. And I was like, 'Oh my God. Julia Roberts, a then-pre-Pretty Woman Julia Roberts, as this young woman," he added.
'And then I got the bill for de-aging those people'
He then explained why he didn’t go ahead with his idea, "As you're conceptually going through it, you're like, 'Now all anybody's going to be doing is thinking about the de-aging of Julia Roberts, and Esai [Morales], and Tom, and Henry Czerny.' And then I got the bill for de-aging those people before their salaries were even factored into it."
"And if you put two of them in a shot together, or three of them in a shot together, it would have been as expensive as the train by the time we were done," he added.
