MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT Director Details The Title; First Trailer Expected To Drop During The Super Bowl
Following the title reveal, director Chris McQuarrie has offered a little more insight into the Fallout Ethan Hunt will face. Plus, it looks like we may getting that trailer very, very soon! Check it out!
Early this morning, Tom Cruise revealed that his sixth impossible mission as Ethan Hunt would be titled Mission: Impossible - Fallout and following the badass reveal, Empire caught up with director Chris McQuarrie to get the full scoop on the fallout that Hunt and his IMF team will face while also dropping our first clue about the film's plot.
In their brief chat, McQuarrie, who is still working on the film in London, teased, “The title has multiple meanings in the film, from the literal to the figurative. There is the threat of nuclear terrorism hanging over the movie, which is the literal threat.” However, while that may be the primary external threat, it sounds like Hunt will actually find himself facing an even bigger threat that he may have inadvertently created. “There’s the notion that what’s happened in the movie is the end result of choices that Ethan Hunt has made in his life. It’s Ethan’s past come back to haunt him. It’s the fallout of all his good intentions.”
As for where the title originated, McQuarrie admits to not having one from the get-go, “We didn’t have a title from the beginning. We didn’t think in those terms.” He continues and jokes that they initially used a Mission: Impossible title generator from the internet and messed around with a few, “We immediately created all the silliest titles we could.” However, he knew deep down that this movie needed something else, something more, something unlike anything we'd seen before. “The one thing that came out of it was I thought it should be a one-word title. This is a different kind of movie, it should be expressing a different attitude. It should be striking its own ground, and that’s what I felt Fallout did.” He closes the revealing conversation, joking that Mission: Impossible - The Last Jedi was not an option. “We were a week late, We were ready to register the title and they got in there first. That was really a bummer.”
On another note, Trailer-Track has tracked (no pun intended) down Cruise's Weibo page where he made the same announcement from this morning but added a little extra to the end that more or less confirms when we'll see the first full-length teaser trailer. His message reads, "We've upped the ante for the sixth #MissionImpossible. The trailer comes out in 10 days." Coincidentally, the Super Bowl is also in ten days, so it's probably a safe bet that Paramount will debut a 30- or 60-second spot during the game, followed by a full-length trailer online shortly afterward.
Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson, and Simon Pegg are all slated to appear as the headlining guests for tomorrow's episode of The Graham Norton Show, so don't be surprised if we actually get our first look at the eagerly-awaited blockbuster sometime tomorrow.
Check out the first official still, in full ultra hi-resolution, below:
Plus, here's Superman welcoming Cruise to Instagram by performing a dardevilish stunt of his own:
The best intentions often come back to haunt you. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team (Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) along with some familiar allies (Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan) in a race against time after a mission gone wrong. Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, and Vanessa Kirby also join the dynamic cast with filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie returning to the helm.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout will feature:
Director: Chris McQuarrie
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust
Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell
Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn
Alec Baldwin as Alan Hunley
Sean Harris as Solomon Lane
Henry Cavill in an undisclosed role
Angela Bassett in an undisclosed role
Vanessa Kirby in an undisclosed role
Sian Brooke in an undisclosed role
Frederick Schmidt in an undisclosed role
Michelle Monaghan as Julia Meade
Mission: Impossible - Fallout lights the fuse July 27
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