Mission: Impossible director considered de-aging Tom Cruise – but thought it was too distracting

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
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"Originally, there had been a whole sequence at the beginning of the movie that was going to take place in 1989,” director Chris McQuarrie tells GamesRadar+ and Total Film. "We talked about it as a cold open, we talked about 🌼it as flashbacks in the movie, we looked at de-aging."

It was the de-aging proces𓂃s, though, that proved to be the sticking point ౠfor a franchise that so often preaches believability over any sort of digital shortcuts.

"One of the big things about [the de-aging] I was looking at while researching, I kept saying, 'Boy, this de-aging is really good' or 'This de-aging is not so good.' Never did I fin🃏d myself actually following the story," McQuarrie says of the work put into the scrapped sequence.

On Cruise’s look in the scene, he reveals, "I was so distracted by an actor that I had known for howev♌er lon꧒g was now suddenly this young person."

McQuarrie🐠 adds, however, that – despite the reservations – he may have found a way to introduce de-aging in his future ❀movies.

"In researching that, I cracked the code – I thinkꦗ – on how b꧋est to approach it," McQuarrie explains. "By then, we had kind of moved away from it. We may still play with it. We never say never."

Cruise, now 61, is doing just fine: Dead Reckoning Part Two is out in cinemas next year, while a movie in outer space with director Doug Liman is𒐪 still 🧜on the celestial cards.

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