Tom Cruise’s On-The-Fly Rewrite, How One Line Shaped the Mission: Impossible Legacy
During the filming of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Tom Cruise faced one of his most daunting action sequences: the Burj Khalifa climb. With the scene only partially scripted, Cruise called in Christopher McQuarrie—who was not officially attached to the film—to rework the sequence on the spot. McQuarrie famously encapsulated the glove constraint logic as:…