Christopher McQuarrie
Biography
Christopher McQuarrie (born October 25, 1968) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. He received the BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the neo-noir mystery film The Usual Suspects (1995). He made his directorial debut with the crime thriller film The Way of the Gun (2000).
McQuarrie is a frequent collaborator with Tom Cruise, having written and directed the action films Jack Reacher (2012), as well as four instalments of the Mission: Impossible film series: Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), Dead Reckoning (2023), and The Final Reckoning (2025). He was also a part of the writing and/or producing team on the Cruise films Valkyrie (2008), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016), The Mummy (2017), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), the last of which received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.
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Most directed genres
Recurring actors
- Tom Cruise 7
- Simon Pegg 4
- Ving Rhames 4
- Rebecca Ferguson 3
- Esai Morales 2
- Hayley Atwell 2
- Henry Cavill 2
- Henry Czerny 2
The career in numbers
- US$ 1.0 bi Total budget from 6 film(s) with data
- US$ 2.9 bi Total box office from 6 film(s) with data
- US$ 169 mi Average budget from 6 film(s) with data
- US$ 486 mi Average box office from 6 film(s) with data
- 7.1 Average rating from 6 film(s) with data
- 2.9× Return on investment from 6 film(s) with data
Budget and box office do not exist for every film in our records. Averages are computed over the films that carry the figure, and the count beside each one says how many.
Films directed
| Film | Year | Budget | Box office | Rating |
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
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2025 | US$ 400 mi | US$ 599 mi | 7.2 |
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
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2023 | US$ 220 mi | US$ 571 mi | 7.5 |
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
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2018 | US$ 178 mi | US$ 824 mi | 7.5 |
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
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2015 | US$ 150 mi | US$ 683 mi | 7.2 |
Jack Reacher
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2012 | US$ 60 mi | US$ 218 mi | 6.7 |
The Way of the Gun
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2000 | US$ 9 mi | US$ 19 mi | 6.4 |
Broadsword
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The Gauntlet
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King Conan
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