Tom Cruise Was Supposed to Become IMF Secretary at the End of ‘Ghost Protocol’

At long last, someone has finally gone on record about the inside story of how Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol morphed midway through production from a handover movie to a proper Tom Cruise vehicle. When the project was in development, it was rumored that co-star Jeremy Renner was being set up to take over the franchise from Cruise, and that Ghost Protocol would bring Ethan Hunt’s story to some kind of a conclusion. We know that Christopher McQuarrie—who would go on to write and direct Rogue Nation, Fallout—came onboard midway through production and performed rewrites, and we …

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