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According to McQuarrie, the two films were made of 20-minute segments and after removing two of them, he cracked the idea for the seventh film. And every scene in it was necessary," he added. "We realised we had a movie that was two hours, 40 minutes long. I just want the movie to have more feeling across the board," McQuarrie said. I want everyone to have an emotional arc. Going into this, I said, 'I want to take what we learned from Fallout and apply it to every character in the movie. "When we went into making Fallout, I said to Tom, 'I really want to make this more of an emotional journey for Hunt,'. The filmmaker, who previously helmed 2015's Rogue Nation and Fallout (2018), also explained the rationale behind making two consecutive films in the franchise. I don't know where that is, because we had talked days before (the shutdown) and it was an incredibly exciting casting coup," McQuarrie said. "There is someone we were talking to before the world blew up. He also teased that the cast will be joined by a new member, whose identity he chose not to reveal. During his virtual appearance with Pegg and new cast member Hayley Atwell on podcast "Light the Fuse", the director made it official that Ferguson, Rhames and Kirby will reprise their characters of Ilsa Faust, Luther Stickell and Alanna Mitsopolis aka the White Widow, respectively.Īlso read: Tom Cruise to star in first narrative film to be shot in space, in collaboration with NASA, Elon Musk’s Space X: report Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt for the seventh and eighth instalments of the long-running franchise that are being helmed by McQuarrie. Filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie has confirmed the return of Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby and Simon Pegg for his two back-to-back Mission: Impossible films, whilst teasing also about an "exciting casting coup".