The Big Picture Tom Cruise might be known as Mr. Action these days, the most daring man in all of Hollywood, but it's easy to forget that he is also an outstanding actor. Appearing in films like Born on the Fourth of July, The Color of Money, A Few Good Men and Jerry Maguire, the fella is a terrific talent.
McQuarrie had previously told Empire back in 2020, when reflecting on the release of Jack Reacher — which the director admitted could, and possibly should have been an R-rated franchise that leaned more into the grit and violence of those novels — that he and Cruise had been discussing plans for a movie built around a "very un-Tom character" that would be a hard-edged movie.