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Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible 7 To Feature An AI Villain; Director Christopher McQuarrie Explains Why
Mission Impossible 7: Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise's popular franchise Mission Impossible has been one of the most celebrated movies of all time. Over the years, Cruise and the film makers have treated fans to several astonishing action sequences, making us want for more.
As the entire world eagerly awaits to watch some more daredevil stunts from Cruise, the next installment of Mission: Impossible 7 is reported to release next month. After multiple delays, fans will again see Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, agent of the Impossible Missions Force, in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1.
But this time, the makers have set the bar a lot higher by using AI (Artificial Intelligence) as the main villain in the newest installment. Along with some really crazy and best action scenes, the film's team has turned to new age technology that would be the first ever to be seen in a movie.
Mission Impossible 7 to feature AI as a villain
MI 7 will feature an AI as a villain, something ahead of its time. The report has already got everyone excited, but what was the vision behind the idea? This is explained by the film's director, Christopher McQuarrie. Recently speaking to an English media outlet, Collider, McQuarrie said the previous franchises have seen all sorts of threats, including chemical threats, biological threats, Rabbit's foot, and others.
Trying to bring something fresh to the screen, the filmmaker said that for MI 7, they have used one of the latest threats to mankind, information technology, and AI in the movie as the villain, which Tom Cruise and his team will face.
He added that AI is now increasingly present in people's lives, which fits best within the Mission: Impossible franchise now.
Further, while the AI revolution is underway, everyone is becoming aware of the fears it could bring to people's lives. McQuarrie expanded on his decision to take AI as the bad guy in Dead Reckoning Part One.
Comparing it to the Cold War, he stated, "When I was growing up, the Cold War was very real, it was a very present thing. We were under the threat, we believed, of nuclear annihilation; at any point, there could be a war between two or three nuclear superpowers."
He then added, "So when you went to see a Cold War movie, you didn't need somebody to set up the threat of the Cold War, you just felt it. It was something you brought to the movie."
In MI 7, Tom Cruise's character Ethan Hunt will be seen fighting the new AI weapon that threatens humanity as a whole. While details about the film's plot have been kept under wraps, the film's trailer already showed us that something huge is coming.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One also stars Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Rebecca Ferguson, and Henry Czerny, amongst others. It is slated to release in theatres on July 14. Whereas the second part is expected to release on June 28, 2024.
