Christopher McQuarrie has revealed the extent to which the eighth (and possibly final) Mission: Impossible film changed during the editing process — namely a lot.

In the new installment of Tom Cruise’s action film series, “ Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning ,” a godlike AI called the Entity has the world on the brink of a nuclear apocalypse, and a doomsday cult is rooting for the AI. (Spoiler alert: Cruise saves everyone.)

Creating Tom Cruise’s pivotal scene for “The Final Reckoning,” required months of grit, G-force training and a little hypothermia.

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From Mission: Impossible to The Matrix, has the back-to-back filming technique ever really worked as well as it should have?

Being a spy is like watching paint dry. And they don’t have to be in the best shape. The tooth capsule thing? Real. A former spy tells us what Tom Cruise gets right and wrong in the franchise.

The overall framework of the Rabbit’s Foot and its history would have been a super easy way to confirm Ethan Hunt’s fight against The Syndicate as a career-long chess game. What’s more, that suggested plotline would have strengthened another legacy character’s return into something much more powerful.