Tom Cruise regrets killing Emilio Estevez in Mission: Unattainable

Emilio Estevez says that Tom Cruise regrets killing off his character within the first Mission: Unattainable film.

The very first Mission: Unattainable film opened with Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the IMF workforce on a mission to stop the theft of the CIA NOC listing. The mission fails when the members of Hunt’s workforce are killed one after the other, which was a shocking twist when the film was launched almost thirty years in the past. One member of the ill-fated Mission: Unattainable workforce was performed by Emilio Estevez, and the actor informed Uproxx that Tom Cruise expressed remorse at killing off his character so quickly.

“The way in which Tom had defined it, he mentioned, ‘Look, I’d love so that you can come and be a part of the solid. The entire opening quantity the place all people will get worn out, it’s going to be loads of well-known folks and all of them are going to go uncredited and it’s actually going to arrange the extent of peril for Ethan,’” Emilio Estevez defined. “And I mentioned, ‘I’m in. You don’t need to ask me twice, I’m in.’ After which afterwards, clearly, the film’s a large hit.” He added that he was doing a run with Tom Cruise a yr after, who mentioned, “Man, we made such a mistake killing you off.“

Emilio Estevez additionally revealed that Tom Cruise and John Woo did take into account bringing him again for Mission: Unattainable 2. “He and John Woo have been attempting to determine a approach to carry me again for half two, but it surely simply didn’t make sense,” Estevez mentioned. “I assumed you can have as a result of with all of the masks, proper?” Killing off all the workforce did assist set the stakes for Ethan Hunt, however subsequent installments of the Mission: Unattainable franchise actually performed up the workforce dynamic to nice impact. The characters performed by Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner, and extra have appeared in a number of sequels, and naturally, Ving Rhames has performed Luther Stickell in each film. It’s not laborious to think about a world wherein Emilio Estevez continued to play a task within the franchise.

Mission: Unattainable – Lifeless Reckoning Half One will hit theaters on July twelfth, adopted by Mission: Unattainable – Lifeless Reckoning Half Two on June 28, 2024.