Overview

• ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ premiered at Cannes on May 14 and opened in theaters on May 21 as Cruise’s likely final turn as Ethan Hunt.
• Director Christopher McQuarrie says the third ‘Top Gun’ sequel is farther along than expected, with Cruise actively shaping the script.
• Cruise and McQuarrie have two more projects in preproduction—a remake of ‘The Gauntlet’ and the World War II drama ‘Broadsword’.
• Cruise and Doug Liman are developing both the ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ sequel ‘Live Die Repeat and Repeat’ and plans for the first Hollywood film to be shot in space.
• Simon Pegg praised the movie’s AI-focused storyline as prescient and warned that artificial intelligence should assist rather than replace human creativity in filmmaking.