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I don’t have the event in the movie that makes me want Ethan to kill him. "So Tom and I were really struggling with this idea and I came to him one night, very late at night and said, ‘I think the reason why we can’t resolve this movie is because I don’t feel the need to kill Lane. Here's how they finally settled on what to do with Lane: If the audience likes you, you’ve got a twin brother you don’t know about, or a clone or a prequel, you’re coming back, whether you like it or not. With the stroke of a pen, you’re a dead man. I could kill you right now.’ On the last night of the shoot, he was like, ‘Is there any way you can kill me?’ I said, ‘Yes, I’ll kill you right now. It’s not really up to you, and it isn’t up to me, and if the audience likes you … I’ll kill you. So just don’t bring me back because I don’t want to be in five of these movies.’ And I said to Sean, ‘Sean, I’ve got bad news for you. And when I finally convinced him to be in it, the first thing he said to me was, ‘Promise me you’ll kill me. He didn’t want to be in a franchise movie. "The funny thing was that Sean Harris did not wanna be in this movie. "One of the reasons why the ending was so hard is we kept writing endings in which Ethan killed Lane, and a version where Ilsa killed Lane and Ethan killed Vinter (Jens Hultén), and I was writing numerous endings and Tom and I were just inherently dissatisfied."įrom there McQuarrie touched on Harris' apprehension about joining the project and why he insisted that Lane die by the end of the film: I was part of a roundtable interview in New York City last week during which McQuarrie discussed the challenge of coming up with the right ending, especially in terms of Lane's fate: Rather than wrapping up the movie with an action-packed finale that topped the plane bit, the opera house scene and the underwater/car/motorcycle sequence, McQuarrie went with something much more dialogue-driven, a sit-down conversation that leads to Ethan ( Tom Cruise) capturing Lane ( Sean Harris) rather than fighting and killing him.

If you're still reading this article you know that Rogue Nation had an unexpected ending. Alec Baldwin and Rebecca Ferguson join veterans Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, and-because it's been far too long-Ving Rhames in the movie, which is set to launch on July 31, 2015.Now that Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nationopened strong taking $56 million domestically and $121 million worldwide, let's talk about that ending. In the new film, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) faces off against an "anti-IMF," which sounds a little like James Bond's Spectre problem. The trailer is gnarly, high-speed, and exuding a certain machismo that previous entries lacked. Judging from this first look at Rogue Nation, Reacher is a point of reference. McQuarrie wrote Valkyrie for the star and teamed up with him on 2013's Jack Reacher. Tom Cruise is the action connoisseur who hand picks his directors and he's clocked time with the Usual Suspects screenwriter. Brad Bird transitioned from Pixar animation to 2011's Ghost Protocol without losing any of his imagination.Īnd now we have the fifth installment, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, from writer-director Christopher McQuarrie.

Abrams' Mission: Impossible III felt like one of his television shows, sharp-witted and ensemble-driven. John Woo's sequel brought Asian shoot-em-up flair (complete with slow-motion pigeons!) to the series. Director Brian de Palma's 1996 original nods to paranoia thrillers of the 1970s. Each Mission: Impossible movie has an entirely different vibe.
