Christopher McQuarrie opens up about shocking death in 'MI8'

Director Christopher McQuarrie has finally broken his silence on the shocking death in Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

For the unversed in Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning, many people were excited to see what the film would unfold for Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt but one thing they did not expect was the death of Luther Stickell, played by Ving Rhames.

Some people may have cried seeing him leave but McQuarrie said it was a choice Rhames agreed with and it helped raise the stakes for the ending.

While giving an interview to Empire, the 56-year-old American filmmaker said, "The story was about sacrifice. The sacrifice in the movie had no teeth without it, without some loss.”

He added, "It was a sacrifice Ving leaned fully into. It was one he wanted to do, and one he was most moved by."

The creator of Top Gun 2 explained, "Ving is such a phenomenal actor, such a giving actor, and the franchise wasn't giving him those opportunities. I said, ‘We’ve got to get him out of the van and give him the more emotional stuff to play’. And he leaned into it. This was already forming in Fallout.”

It is pertinent to mention that McQuarrie first joined the Mission Impossible franchise to do rewrites for the 2011 movie Ghost Protocol and later he became the director of Rogue Nation, which came out in 2015.