The Meaning Behind Mission: Impossible

So then, after the title not quite clicking with the first half of nonstop action headed our way, Christopher McQuarrie accepted that sticking that label on it would mean fiddling with plans for the film. "'Dead Reckoning' didn't really apply as well to 'Part One' as well as it did to 'Part Two' until we started to play with the beginning of the movie, and kind of recognize that 'Dead Reckoning,' while it sounded cool, what did it really have to do with the movie?" The answer, it seemed, was blowing in the wind that Ethan Hunt was driving, jumping, or running by at ridiculously high speeds.

Here began, as McQuarrie puts it, "really starting to dig down into the arc of the character journey for Ethan, it took on deeper and deeper meanings as we went." Naturally, though, by helming a film about a top-secret spy squad, he was still keeping quiet about anything else. "You'll see just how thematic and how it represents. How it's conceptually represented in every character's journey in this film, we're in." You can choose to accept if the latest subheading is worthy of the mission when "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One" hits theatres on July 12.