UPDATE - Christopher McQuarrie posted the below tweet, poking fun at The Hollywood Reporter, and refuting their claims. It seems all is righ...
UPDATE - Christopher McQuarrie posted the below tweet, poking fun at The Hollywood Reporter, and refuting their claims. It seems all is right with Mission: Impossible 5, and it's ending, and the movie is on track for it's July 31st release date.
Live, from the set of the #MI5 finale, the "unknown writer" sends his regards to @thr before cashing his paycheck. pic.twitter.com/OEk2pWvT46
— ChristopherMcQuarrie (@chrismcquarrie) February 21, 2015Despite having its original Christmas release date being pushed forward to this Summer, production on Mission: Impossible 5 recently shut down for a week, due to the need of finding a new ending. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the London filming of the sequel was halted so Tom Cruise, director Christopher McQuarrie, and a mystery writer friend, who will go uncredited and unpaid, could conceive a finale to replace the original ending, which was deemed 'unsatisfactory'. It is an unwanted position for Paramount to find themselves in when it comes to a big budget film of Mission: Impossible's calibre, worries about the ending would have existed for a while, and if the studio believed the problems were serious they wouldn't have put the film's release date forward by almost six months. Anyway, McQuarrie, even though he only has The Way of The Gun and Jack Reacher under his belt, is a proven director, and I personally think the project is in good hands.
It isn't Paramount's first very public third act problems, with 2011's World War Z being shut down, and having it's entire final third reconceived, not to mention a release date that was pushed back several times. It was ultimately overcame it's problem, and was a hit on it's release.
