Warning: This article contains mild spoilers forMission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One.
In the past, Gabriel murdered Ethan’s girlfriend Marie and framed him for her death.
“We started looking at it and saying, ‘Who’s Marie going to be?
Tom Cruise in ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’; Julia Roberts.Paramount Pictures and Skydance; Theo Wargo/Getty Images
Who from that era would Marie have been?
I looked back at who was the ingenue, who was the breakout star in 1989?
And right around then wasMystic Pizza, and I was like, ‘Oh my God.
A then-pre-Pretty WomanJulia Roberts as this young woman.'”
I’m in no way, shape, or form connecting to the story," he said.
There was also a much simpler reason why McQuarrie decided against the idea: It cost too much money.
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part Oneis in theaters now.
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