Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One director Christopher McQuarrie says the original opening to the latest film in the Mission: Impossible franchise brought back Alec Baldwin’s character.
Speaking with the Empire Spoiler Specials podcast, per ComicBook, McQuarrie detailed how the original opening of Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One would’ve seen Alan Hunley, played by Baldwin, return in a flashback sequence.
“Berlin had been calling our name,” McQuarrie said. “There was originally an opening of this movie that began with Tom [Cruise] and Alec Baldwin walking along the Berlin Wall. They’re walking along the wall and you slowly realize it’s the Berlin Wall. And it’s Alec Baldwin talking to Ethan about his life as a spy, how he became a spy. And you realize it’s him counseling Ethan. You’re seeing a glimpse into the friendship of these two characters that existed prior to Fallout. And you cut and Tom is standing at his grave, having heard the words of wisdom from Alec, and he’s just looking at a gravestone that says ‘Hunley.’ And that notion of Alec Baldwin being a spirit guide to Ethan in his memory was a very, very early idea to the story, something I was keenly interested in.”
What is Mission: Impossible 7 about?
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One debuted in United States theaters in July 2023. Featuring a screenplay co-written by McQuarrie and Erik Jendresen, the film grossed approximately $563.7 million at the worldwide box office with a budget of $291 million.
“In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands,” the official synopsis of the film reads. “With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.”
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.
