Christopher Mcquarrie Planning R Rated Movie With Tom Cruise Playing A Character You Wouldn T Expect

Christopher McQuarrie Planning R-Rated Movie With Tom Cruise Playing A Character You Wouldn’t Expect

By Ethan Anderton/July 5, 2020 11:00 am EST

Christopher McQuarrie recently revealed that he’s developing some kind of R-rated movie that would have Tom Cruise playing a character that you wouldn’t expect the global superstar to tackle. Find out more below.

Speaking with Empire, McQuarrie vaguely teased their hopes to continue Jack Reacher by veering into darker territory, inspired by the recent wave of success of big R-rated movies. The filmmaker said:

Frankly, I’m not sure why McQuarrie is referencing Deadpool and Joker as the movies that made them feel like they could take Jack Reacher in a more hardcore direction and still find box office success. Sure, Jack Reacher is an established intellectual property with plenty of books featuring the character, but Deadpool and Joker have even bigger fanbases. Plus, I would think John Wick would be more representative of what you’d want from a Jack Reacher movie, albeit with less sleek style, but maybe that’s just me.

“Tom and I were talking about, had the series continued, to take [‘Jack Reacher’] to a place where, in the post-‘Deadpool’, post-‘Joker’ world, it could have been an R-rated movie and an R-rated franchise and really fed into the brutality of those books.”

We’re not sure if that means there are two projects that McQuarrie hopes to have Cruise in, or if he’s referring to Jack Reacher as a character that is “very un-Tom” and this new project veers even further away from what you’d expect. Clearly this is something very early in development, and since Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8 won’t arrive in theaters until November 19, 2021 and November 4, 2022 respectively, we’ll be waiting awhile before they’re really able to dig into this project. But for now, color me intrigued.

“It’s a very un-Tom character. And we have plans for an even more un-Tom character that we’ve been talking about, which I’m hopeful about in the future. The franchise has moved on, and we haven’t. So we’ve now got stuff in the hopper. The [Jack Reacher] stuff we’re talking about now is tinker toys [compared to it], I’m actually very, very excited.”