LA Times · Jul 16, 2015
Director Christopher McQuarrie's unlikely path to 'Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation'
Director Chris McQuarrie at Sager + Wilde in Hackney, London. (Matthew Lloyd)Near a leafy square in this bustling capital, filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie sat in a screening room, tilting his head at scenes from the new movie "Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation."
In one scene, Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt slid a BMW, Formula One style, through narrow streets in Morocco and, in another, dangled shirtless while wryly absorbing a brutal beating. McQuarrie made mental notes as he contemplated his biggest movie yet and one of the splashiest of the summer when it opens July 31.