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Summer 2021 and Summer 2022 pic.twitter.com/V6SNvZx2La — Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) January 15, 2019

In an interview with the Sun last summer, McQuarrie hinted that Cruise, 56, already had ideas for future instalments.

“No sooner was this movie in the can and out the door that Tom turned to me and said, ‘Here’s what I want to do next,'” McQuarrie said. “In fact, at the premiere in Paris that was the first time Tom and I sat down to watch the film together. The response from the audience was amazing and as the credits rolled and the audience was cheering, Tom turned to me and said, ‘Yeah, we can do better.'”

Marked by a series of death-defying stunts, Fallout featured Cruise performing a HALO (high altitude, low opening) jump, piloting a helicopter, dangling off the side of Norway’s Pulpit Rock, jumping off a building (he broke his ankle on that one) and riding a motorbike in an intricate chase through the streets of Paris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BnOebsDtAQ&t=5s

“The HALO jump was not something we set out to do,” McQuarrie said. “It came up because in the Grand Palais sequence we were trying to figure out how Tom was going to get in. One of the things about Mission is, you don’t go through the front door or out the back door — anyone can do that. You come up with ways to make those two things complicated.”

McQuarrie also revealed he is eyeing a sequel to Edge of Tomorrow – which he wrote – also with Cruise.

“There is such a great core concept that I’m excited to explore, we just all need to find the time,” McQuarrie said.

In a separate interview with the Sun, Cruise’s Mission co-star Simon Pegg said that he hopes future movies won’t shy away from the fact that the characters are getting older.