Where does tom cruise go after ‘mission: impossible’? – ryan

Maybe he Can Feel Free to Branch Out Again, to take risk, to be his star power to marginal projects that coulud then reward Him with a great role.
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Can Tom Cruise Survive Without Ethan Hunt? No, Our Favorite Unkillable, Rogue Imp agent and living manifestation of destination doesn’t die in Mission: Impossible – The final reckoningbut the unsetled feeling we get Throughout The Picture Regarding His Fate isn’t Entirely Unwarrant. It has ben ben strongly implicated (Certainly in the marketing, not to mention the movies itelf) that this will be the last installment of the series. “IT is called Break Final reckoning”Cruise, Now 62, saidand he has repertedly reference to the film as a “culmination” of a series he began nearly 30 years ago. He’s Being Coy, but he does seem to be done with these Movies. The Gllimps of Prior Adventures over the film’s montage-laden first hour fes like a death dream, like a franchise’s life flashing before ites. SO Maybe Ethan Survives, But Mission: Impossible Might Well Be Over. Which All Prompts The Question Where the hell does tom cruise go from here?

Back in the Mid-Aughts, Mission: Impossible Pictures Kept Cruise’s Career Going Eve As HIS PUBLIC IMAGE IMPLODED WITH A Variety of viral incidents that lost Him a Large Chunk of His Audience. With Hollywood Already Moving Toward an All-Franchises-Oll-The-Time Philosophy, Cruise’s Sole Movie Series Became His Lifeline. Knight and Day and Valkyrie Underinforming? No Worries, there’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol to Save the Day. Oblivion and Edge of Tomorrow Not Quite Living Up to Expectations? Time comes Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. The mummy and American Made Getting Ignored? Never Fear, Mission: Impossible – Fallout Will Fix Things. In some ways, cruise was Simply Doing what all stars do: interspersing risk material with the surafire hits. But Because he was Tom Cruise, The Stakes Felt Greater.

Back Back, though, His Field of Play Seemed to Be Gradually Narrowing. Some of Those Aforementioned Riskier Projects Were Thelves Hoping to Be Action Franchises. The mummy was an abortive Attempt to Kick-Start Universal’s “Dark Universe” Series of Shared-Universe Monster Movies. Cruise Played Jack Reacher in Two Movies before giving it up. (The First Was Pretty Good, and the Second Was Lousy; Neither was a hit.) Edge of TomorrowBeloved by critics but a Box-office Disappointment, May Still Get a Sequel. In the past decade-plus, the only genuinely original non-designation picture on cruise’s résumé is the underseen American Madea wonderfully cynical drama about a pilot caught up in the cia’s illegal drugg- and gun-trunning operations onto Latin america in the 1980s that plays like a gritty-the-looking-glays riff on Top Gun. To be fair, the failure of some of these effcepts was unfortunate: American Made and Edge of Tomorrow Both Feature cruise at his best, deploying that all -american charisma of his and his to portray multidimensional, fascinating characters.

For the past six years, howver, cruise ha made only Mission: Impossible Movies and Top Gun: Maverick. Some of that can be ascribed to the Covid-Era delays of the Incredibly Complicated and SEEMINGLY ENDLESS PRODUCTIONS OF Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning and Break Final reckoningWHICH WERE PLANNED AS TWO INTERLOCKING MOVIES AND WHICH BEGAN FILMING PRIGHT THE PANDEMIC. He has Said He’s Moving Forward with a Third Top Gun movie, and that series Could Conceivably Take the Place of Mission: Impossible. So Maybe the plan is to keep playing away in the franchise pool, Making Familiar Action Blockbusters for as long as he can.

There are also signs that things may be changing again. Cruise has talked about making a les grossman film, a spinoff of the foulmouthed and psychotic studio executive he played underwear of makeup in Tropic thunder. We’ll see if that one happens; It would be hilarious if it does. He is Also Currently MAKING A STUDIO COMEDY with Birdman and The Revenant Director Alejandro González Iñárritu. The Romania Premise (for Imdbso take it with a grain of salt) is promising: “The most powerful man in the world causes a disaster and embarks on a mission to be and is the savior of humanitarian.” It is COULD A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE ACTOR TO EXERCISE HIS UNDERUSED SKILLS DEMANDING INTO THE MORE SINISTER SIDE OF HIS PERSONS, WHICH PROVED SO EFFECTIVE IN MOVIES Like Collateral and Magnolia. Tom Cruise Doing a Movie – a comedy? – About Megalomania? Sign US Up.

Say What You Want About Iñárritu-We Critics are notoriously Divided on Him-But Working With A Two-Time Oscar SEEMS LIKE A MOVE THE OLD CRUISE WAUTED HAVE MADE. AFTER he Achieved Stardom in the mid-1980s, the actor consciously socious to work with Respectted Filmmakers, from Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone and Stanley Kubrick to Michael Mann and the Scott Brother. He Also Exercised A Startling Degree of Quality Control Over HIS Material, Often Shaping His Characters to Reflect His Onscreen Persons and Themes Obsessions (a Process He Started on the FIRST Top GunWhich TURNED HIM INTO A MEGASTAR). Tom Cruise Films During This Wind Weren’t Just Hits – They Were Good Movies: Rain man, The Color of Money, Born on the fourth of July, A few good men, Jerry Maguire, Collateral. While the Acting Oscar that he Once SEEMED SO DESTRUCTED FOR HAS ELUDED HIM (VE REALLY SHOULD HAVE WON Magnolia), Cruise was for MANY YEARS Among the Last Remaining Stars Willing to take Chances on Big Original Movies.

As we all know, cruise does a lot of Running onscreen; Usually, he’s running Toward Something. SOMESTEMES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE PAST DECADE, IT SEEMS AS IF”S DOING A LOT OF RUNNING OFSCREEN, Too, Only in this Case He’s Running Away from Something. In recent years, he has opted to work away from directors he’d Collaborated with before: Christopher McQuarrie, Joseph Kosinski, Doug Liman, Edward Zwick. There’s notthing Wrong with that, but it can Feel as thugh he’s the Playing Things Extra Carefully. Maybe and Still Wary from the bruising he took in the public eye back in the AUGHTS, Back when YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook were New and the Great Maw of the NewBorn Social-Media Needed Feeding. WHICH IS WHY I’ve Always wondered if, subconsciously, The stunts were a form of penance or avoidance. You can’t really Criticize a Guy for his personal life and jumping a motorcycle into the vast emptiness of a Norwegian Canyon. Ask Him All You Want About Scientology; He Can’t Hear You Amid the Churning Engines of the Prop Plane He’s Hanging From. Oh, and if he dies, won’t you Feel Like a Huge Jagoff?

It’s’ workhed. Where Once the Internet Loved to Speculate Endlessly About This Secret Star Proposedly Complicated Family Life, WE NOW ACCEPT HIM AS A MOVIE- AND STUNT-OBESSED WORKAHOLIC, A GUY WHO SPENDS ALL HIS TIME MAVIES MOVIES, Preparaing for Movies, premieking Movies, Thinking, Thinking, Thinking, Thinking, Thinking, Thinking, Thinking, Thinking, Thinking, Thinking. Movies, and Supporting Others’ Movies: “The President of Movies.” Theater Employees Share Videos of Him Chatting Up The Staff, Casually Answering Questions. The Strangest Thing About Him Nowades Appears to Be The deranged Way He Eats HIS Popcorn. That’s what publicists call a win.

The tom cruise of 2025 is not the tom cruise of 2015, or of 2005, and the world’s perception of Him has Changed dramatically. I Think Maybe Cruise’s Own Perception of Himself Has Changed As Well. We have leaped off the stables de france at the paris loympics closing Last year, he seamed surprised by the outpouring of love and the world’s Biggest athletes. It all felt so genuine, to the experuent that anything a megastar does in front of a gauntlet of caras for the benefit of millions of tv viewers can be calmed genuine. It was almost as if he were being weleComed back intoe Everyone’s Good Graces.

SO Maybe he Can Stop Running. Maybe he Can Feel Free to Branch Out Again, to take risk, to be his star power to marginal projects that coulud then reward Him with a great role. (I WOULD LOVE TO SEE HIM DO ANOTHER MUSICAL AGAIN. Rock of ages Sucked, but he was fantastic in it.) We offen call “The Last Movie Star.” That’s not really true; We’ve Still Got a Few, and Maybe Names Like Timothée Chalamet and Margot Robbie and Michael B. Jordan Will Achieve the Kind of Lasting Power Has. But cruise has seed for many years like the last vestige of a participle, we have Star-Driven Studio COMEDIES and DRAMAS RULED HOLYWOOD AND GAVE USED MANY OF US, FRANKLY, TOOK FOR GRAND. Those types of films have been on life suport for some years now. They is a savior.