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The Not Old - Better Show

#241 McQ - Chris McQuarrie, Director Mission Impossible

The Not Old - Better Show

Paul Vogelzang

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7106 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Who is McQ? - Chris McQuarrie, Director Mission Impossible

The Not Old Better Show, Movies for Adults Interview Series

Let me start with the most important thing first: Mission: Impossible – Fallout is a monster home-run of a movie. Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie (the first director to return to the Mission franchise) and Tom Cruise have crafted an action extravaganza that's loaded with tons of "I can't believe they just did that!" moments. And, as we learned from Tom Cruise in our most recent interview,  Cruise is famous for doing his own stunts, and what he does in Fallout will leave your jaw on the ground. Trust me, if you like action movies, thrillers, or just awesome movies, you want to see Mission: Impossible – Fallout on the biggest screen you can when it opens in theaters July 27th. 

And today, we're going to be speaking with Christopher McQuarrie.  McQuarrie broke out in Hollywood by winning the Oscar for writing "The Usual Suspects," but in recent years he's become known as Tom Cruise's go-to director. After working with Cruise on "Jack Reacher," McQuarrie delivered one of the best "Mission: Impossible" movies with 2015's "Rogue Nation." Now the director is back in the director's chair for this month's "Mission: Impossible – Fallout." Ahead of the film's release, Chris McQuarrie, who Cruise refers to as "McQ" joins us to talk about stunts, directing the film, and well, Tom Cruise.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Not Old Better Show. I'm host Paul Vogel-Zang and this is episode number

0:06.5

241. Let me start with the most important thing first. Mission Impossible

0:14.9

Fallout is a monster home run of a movie.

0:18.7

Writer director Christopher Macquarie, the first director to return to the Mission Impossible franchise,

0:26.5

and Tom Cruz have crafted an action extravaganza that's loaded with tons of, I can't believe they just did that moments.

0:36.5

And as we learned from Tom Cruz in our most recent interview, Cruz is famous for doing his own

0:42.4

stunts and what he does in fallout will leave your jaw on the ground.

0:48.0

Trust me if you like action movies, thrillers, or just awesome movies, you are going to want to see Mission Impossible

0:55.0

fallout on the on the very biggest screen you can when it opens in

1:00.0

theaters this Friday July July 27th.

1:03.2

And today we're going to be speaking with Christopher McCorry. McCorry broke out in Hollywood

1:09.7

by winning the Oscar for writing the usual suspects but in recent years he's become known as

1:16.3

Tom Cruz's go-to director. After working with Cruz on Jack Reacher, McCorry delivered one of the best Mission Impossible movies

1:25.5

with 2015's Rogue Nation. Now the director is back in the director's chair for

1:31.9

this month's Mission Impossible fallout.

1:35.0

Ahead of the film's release, Chris McCorry, director and writer, who Cruz refers to as McHugh, joins us to talk about stunts, directing the film, and well,

1:47.0

Tom Cruz.

1:50.4

Chris McCory, thanks so much for joining us today. This is a busy week and I want to thank you for taking some time and talking with us.

1:58.5

I also want to ask you right up front to tell us about the title of the film,

2:04.0

Fallout, tell us a little bit about that,

2:05.8

and what that means to character Ethan Hunt.

2:08.8

Ethan Hunt's journey in this film is different

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