Impossible 8 Gets Release Update Fans Will Hate

Now that another delay could be on the horizon for «Mission: Impossible 8,» fans may begin to question Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise’s decision to split «Dead Reckoning» into two parts. However, the creative duo knew they needed to one-up «Mission: Impossible – Fallout,» which many view as the franchise’s peak, and if they wanted to achieve that, they needed more than two hours.

«‘Fallout’ really grew because of all the character and emotion we were putting into the story, all the things that we had discovered in ‘Rogue Nation’ that was so unexpected,» McQuarrie told Collider at the premiere of «Dead Reckoning – Part One.» «I knew I wanted to expand the cast, and I knew I wanted to give each one of those characters more to do, so I knew the movie was going to be bigger and longer than ‘Fallout.’ And at which point I said, ‘Why are we fighting this? Why are we going to try to jam this into two hours? Let’s just break it in half and make two movies.’ That really was the rationale behind it being a two-part movie.»

Whenever it eventually releases, McQuarrie and Cruise are billing «Mission: Impossible 8» as a send-off for Ethan Hunt, ending Cruise’s nearly 30-year stint with the franchise. If that’s the case, the character deserves a proper conclusion, which they, understandably, couldn’t accomplish in a two-hour runtime. While more delays could be in store for «Dead Reckoning – Part Two,» fans won’t be too mad as long as it does Hunt and «Mission: Impossible» justice.