In Mission: Impossible 7, Tom Cruise Was to be Rejuvenated Like Harrison Ford

The makers of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One considered CGI rejuvenation of Tom Cruise in a flashback sequence. Although the process began, the concept was rejected for some important reason.

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Pamela Jakiel13 July 2023

Source: Mission: Impossible 7, Christopher McQuarrie, Paramount Pictures, 2023.

This summer, the latest installments of famous franchises reign supreme on cinema screens - Indiana Jones and Mission: Impossible. As it turns out, the shows have another common point besides serving viewers with great entertainment and introducing new adventures of favorite characters.

As confessed by Christopher McQuarrie in a recent interview with Total Film, the creators of Dead Reckoning Part One intended to rejuvenate Tom Cruise using CGI for a sequence set in the protagonist's past. They were going to do it in a similar way to Harrison Ford in the opening scenes of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

"Originally, there was a whole sequence at the beginning of the film that took place in 1989. We talked about it as an opening scene, a flashback, and worked on rejuvenation."

So why was this idea abandoned and the process of CGI rejuvenation not successfully completed, as was the case with the famous archaeologist, and instead young Ethan Hunt was played by another actor? Director Christopher McQuarrie had a very good reason for this.

"The most important thing during the research process was that I kept saying: 'This rejuvenation is really good' or 'This rejuvenation is not good.' I stopped focusing on the story at all."

This explanation of the abandonment of CGI rejuvenation plans really makes a lot of sense. Surely the viewers who have already seen the opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. During the scenes with the "young" Ford, attention really went mainly to Indiana's appearance, and the events receded into the background. It is possible that it must take some time for the new technology to become commonplace, and for the characters created in this way to cease to be such a sensation.

More:Tom Cruise Wants to be Like Harrison Ford, at Least in This Respect

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Pamela Jakiel

Finished film studies, graduate of the Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University. Her master's thesis was about new spirituality in contemporary cinema. The editor of the Filmomaniak service since April 2023, supports the lead editor and the boss of all newspeople. She used to write for naEkranie. If she's not watching The Ninth Gate for the hundredth time, then she's reading books by Therese Bohman and Donna Tartt for the first time. She prefers gnosis over dread, dramas over horrors, Jung over Freud. She looks for symbolist paintings in museums. Runs long distances, and does even the longer ones on a gravel. Loves dachshunds.

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