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In the years following, McQuarrie directed The Way of the Gun, starring Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro and James Caan. In 2008, he collaborate with Singer once again to produce and co-write Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise. This film would lead to many more McQuarrie-Cruise collaborations.
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- 'Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One' (2023) But in the end, for as great as Mission: Impossible - Fallout was, Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise outdid themselves again come 2023, with the release of the seventh film in the series, Dead Reckoning Part One.
- 'Mission: Impossible – Fallout' (2018) It's very unlikely that anyone would've come out of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation feeling unsatisfied, but then three years later, the sixth movie – Fallout – made the previous movie feel like a mere warm-up by comparison.
- 'Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation' (2015) Three years after directing Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher, Christopher McQuarrie helmed the fifth movie in the Mission: Impossible series, Rogue Nation.
- 'The Way of the Gun' (2000) The Way of the Gun is certainly an interesting directorial debut for Christopher McQuarrie. Despite being the movie of his with the lowest budget of them all, it has a good deal more to offer than Jack Reacher, being an uncompromising, violent, and sometimes mean-spirited modern Western/neo-noir/action movie.
9 titles. 1. Top Gun: Maverick (2022) PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Drama. 8.3. Rate. 78 Metascore. After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it.
He is a frequent collaborator with Tom Cruise, having written and directed the action films Jack Reacher (2012), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), and an untitled eighth Mission: Impossible film (2025).
- Jack Reacher
- The Way of The Gun
- Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
- Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Christopher McQuarrie's first time directing Tom Cruise came in Jack Reacher. Cruise stars as the titular Jack Reacher, a former military police investigator who is tasked with uncovering the person who framed former USA army sniper James Barr for shooting five innocent people. Jack Reacher is held together by the performance of the ever-reliable T...
Christopher McQuarrie made his directorial debut in 2000 with the crime thriller The Way Of The Gun. Starring Ryan Phillippe and Benicio del Toro, The Way Of The Gun follows two small-time criminals, Park and Longbaugh, who hope to make a big score by holding hostage a surrogate mother who is bearing the child of a wealthy businessman. The crime mo...
Rogue Nation is the fifth installment of the Mission: Impossible series, but the first time that Christopher McQuarrie had directed the franchise. Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt comes up against the Syndicate, a terrorist organization made up of former government agents. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nationimmediately jumps into the action, as Tom Cruise pu...
Rogue Nation’s sequel, Mission: Impossible - Falloutis the best movie directed by McQuarrie. Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt returns again and this time attempts to take down the Apostles, a team made up of the remnants of the Syndicate who have access to nuclear weapons. Henry Cavill's arms-dealing villain, August Walker, is at the center of Fallout's bri...
He is a frequent collaborator with Tom Cruise, having written and directed the action films Jack Reacher (2012), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023), and an untitled eighth Mission: Impossible film (2025).
Highest Rated: 97% Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) Lowest Rated: 15% The Mummy (2017) Birthday: Jun 12, 1968. Birthplace: Princeton Junction, New Jersey, USA.