Refresh for more…This afternoon at Cannes, Tom Cruise made a surprise appearance at a masterclass event celebrating his longtime collaborator, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie.
Why does it click well with Tom Cruise. “A love of cinema,” said McQuarrie about their shorthand.
“When I met him, I was going to quit the business,” said the Mission: Impossible filmmaker.
“What I know about working with him for so long, Tom is always a student. He’s eager to learn from the people around him,” he added. The other plus is that Cruise likes to empower the visions of those around him.
In what was a very wise and pragmatic sitdown, McQuarrie said that he sees the film industry, particuarly when it’s at a crossroads with streaming as one of “deposits and withdrawals.” Read, Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick brings people into cinemas, so smaller auteur movies like Anora will find a following.
“I worry for the fate and survival of cinema,” said the scribe turned filmmaker.
MrQuarrie is a five-time director of five films in the Mission: Impossible franchise, which stars Cruise as undercover agent Ethan Hunt, and he directed Cruise-starrer Jack Reacher. The frequent collaborators also know each other from McQuarrie’s writing career on projects such as Edge of Tomorrow.
McQuarrie said that the impact of streaming on the industry. “Streaming is in danger of driving the industry into extinction,” he said. “The advantage to a filmmaker ebtering that world is he filmmaker doenst’ have the same pressure. ..
young filmmkaers reach a place where they have total creative freedom… I’lk show you a filmmkaer who’s making a film fo a veyr limited group of people very often one.
He also recalled The Usual Suspects, when asked how he feels about its status as a classic movie.
