Tom Cruise refused to let ‘MI7’ end on a cliffhanger. As reported by Variety, in an interview with Total Film, talking about the film’s train sequence, the director said: “Where we ended the movie was always where we were going to end it.”
“How we ended the movie was a big, big mystery for us. It kept Tom awake at night throughout production. He would come in all the time and say, ‘This can’t be a cliffhanger, it’s got to be satisfying’. The audience has to feel a sense of completion.”
McQuarrie continued, “Tom kept looking at that scene, and he had all this anxiety about whether or not it would be a satisfying conclusion or whether it would feel open-ended. We constantly revisited it, constantly refined it.”
Tom Cruise refused to let ‘MI7’ end on a cliffhanger. “If you leave it with a cliffhanger, it feels a little bit like we’re expecting you to come back,” McQuarrie told Total Film.
“We didn’t want that feeling. The feeling we were reaching for – and we hope you feel – is we dare you not to come back. We want to leave you thinking, ‘Oh, I can’t wait to see what happens next’,” he added.
Unlike other recent Hollywood blockbusters, such as ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ which left audiences on a massive cliffhanger which many found unsatisfying, ‘Dead Reckoning Part One’ aimed to offer a more definitive conclusion and sought to tie up any loose ends in ‘Dead Reckoning Part Two’.
–IANS
