Mission: Film a major action movie amid COVID 19. For Christopher McQuarrie, it's not impossible
by Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times
Aug 10, 2020
4 minutes
In each successive outing of the long-running "Mission: Impossible" franchise, star Tom Cruise and the rest of the creative team have looked for ever more daring ways to live up to the title, whether having Cruise's superspy Ethan Hunt scale the world's tallest building, Dubai's Burj Khalifa, in 2011's "Ghost Protocol" or staging a death-defying helicopter chase in 2018's "Fallout."
But of all the challenges the series has taken on, nothing quite tops a pandemic.
In an interview Thursday from London, where he is in pre-production on the as-yet-untitled seventh installment, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie said the film had been two days
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