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‘Mission: Impossible 8’ Director Says Someone ‘Almost Had a Heart Attack’ Watching Action Sequence at Early Screening: ‘I Guess We Did Something Right’


Director Christopher McQuarrie says someone at an early screening for Tom Cruise's 'The Final Reckoning' almost had a heart attack watching a sequence

In “Dead Reckoning,” the first of “Mission Impossible’s” two-part finale, Cruise’s Ethan Hunt finds himself up against a dangerous AI program called The Entity that seems to predict his every move and could cause disaster if it falls into the wrong hands. Morales returns for “The Final Reckoning,” in addition to Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Henry Czerny, Greg Tarzan Davis, Mariela Garriga and Indira Varma. Newcomers to the franchise include Hannah Waddingham, Janet McTeer, Holt McCallany, Katy O’Brian, Nick Offerman and Tramell Tillman, while the trailer revealed that Angela Bassett is back as CIA Director Erika Sloane after she first appeared in “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.”

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