Mission: Impossible – The final showdown considered the killing of Ethan Hunt

When the final Mission: Impossible The film was retouched The final reckoningFans started theorize that perhaps Ethan Hunt would die. After all, what better way to close a ten -year franchise than to sacrifice its legendary advantage? It turns out that it was actually a lot on the table.

In a new interview with Empire, writer-journalist Christopher Mcquarrie He revealed that he seriously considered the end of Ethan’s journey forever. He said:

“Everything is on the table. There was a moment in the editing of the final sequence of the film in which Ethan goes to play in that bank of clouds in which I thought:” If I cut in his tomb right now, you would feel that the sacrifice was sufficient. Wow, it is very, very effective. “”

So yes, there was almost a version of this film in which Ethan Hunt did not come out alive. But in the end Mcquarrie retired from that ledge. He explained that the end of Ethan’s story with death was not exactly the point.

“The idea of ​​a conclusion of a story is the death of that character … they are not the same thing. When I completely bind history, the story stops being. And it is not life. The stories continue, regardless of whether the films do it or not.”

Ethan Hunt’s entire mission has always concerned survival against impossible probability. Killing him may seem like a closure, but Mcquarrie clearly saw him as a disservice for the undergoing momentum.

And just like Ethan, the main bad guy of the film, the entity, a rogue, survives. Not even this was not accidental. While the Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro Apparently he launched the idea that the entity should scream while it was destroyed, Mcquarrie opted for something more disturbing: let me live.

“You cannot put the genius back in the bottle. Really expert experts in this field, which have been with it since his childhood, were telling me the only way you will never be able to fight the IA is with the IA. He will never go away.”

Therefore instead of a large and explosive ending, The final reckoning ends with the simply contained entity. He is still out there, unbeaten and without restricted.

“Destroying the entity was actually a kind of empty and empty idea … [Destroying the Entity is] Do not prevent someone else from doing an entity, and therefore the idea that Ethan maintains the entity in the end was fully antithetical to everything we believed – yet there was emotionally in the film, and this is how the ending came. “

Mcquarrie did not want to pretend that the mission was ever over, and while he says he probably finished Mission: ImpossibleHe left quite ambiguity to keep the door broken.

“I think [Mission] Is it in my rear -view mirror? I mean yes. Tom Cruise is a force of nature and very, very complicated. “

My question is: if Ethan Hunt would have died, Tom Cruise would have brought out the last acrobatics and really died!? This could be the real reason why they decided to change it.