Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for Mission Impossible - Death Wages Part One
We almost saw the 1989 vintage. Tom Cruise V Mission Impossible - Paying for Death, Part One. Luckily, we’ve been spared this for now. It’s a cool technological gimmick, but it’s hard to argue that the youth trend is taking us down a dangerous path in Hollywood. Instead of creating new stars, let’s just make our old ones young again using the magic of computers. Main selling point Indiana Jones and the Dial of Doom had a highly publicized opening sequence that featured a rejuvenated Harrison Ford (who sounded like an old Harrison Ford), but the scene, while amusing in its original novelty, was annoying.
With Cruz, the man still moves like he’s in his 40s. He doesn’t need to be rejuvenated just yet. There is a rejuvenation scene in the movie, but it’s the antagonist. Esai Morales who gave the effect. Luckily, the shot (and scene) is short and doesn’t drag on, avoiding that supernatural effect that your mind can’t completely ignore. Given that the scene is a flashback to the moment when Ethan Hunt was supposed to lose someone close, we can assume that a young Tom Cruise was supposed to appear here as well.
This scene would add an intended greater depth to the motivations behind why Cruz was so fearful and worried about the threat of Morales’ character, Gabriel, who was “handpicked” by a sentient artificial intelligence known as The Entity to do his job. on the ground. How biblical.
Too many distractions
Director Christopher McQuarrie spoke to Total Film about plans they originally had to feature a younger Cruise at the start of the film, but he ultimately decided against it - and the big factor behind it was simple: McQuarrie couldn’t get over the younger version someone he knew so well on screen, believing it looked too artificial.
“Originally, at the beginning of the film, there was a whole sequence that was supposed to happen in 1989. We talked about it like a cold opening, we talked about it like a movie flashback, we looked at rejuvenation. One of the big things about [the de-aging] I watched during the study, I kept saying, “Man, this rejuvenation is really good” or “This rejuvenation is not that good.” I never found myself really following history. I was so distracted by the actor that I had known for a long time suddenly became this young man.”
This does not mean that McQuarrie has ruled out the practice entirely. The director believes he’s found a way to make it work, but it’s not yet the time or place for it, as he explained: “While researching this, I’ve cracked the code - I’m thinking - about how best to approach this.” McQuarrie said, “By that time, we were sort of moving away from that. We can still play with him. We never say never.”
Mission Impossible - Death Wages Part One currently playing in theaters. Check out our interview with the real 61 year old Tom Cruise below.
Source: Collider
My name is Wendy Thorne and I was born on October 1st, 1990. I grew up in Los Angeles, CA and currently reside in Brooklyn, NY. I work as a staff writer for a news website and have been authoring articles for Daily News Hack since 2020. The topics I mostly cover are entertainment news and celebrity gossip.
