Christopher McQuarrie

Known for WritingBorn 1968-10-25 (age 57)Princeton Junction, New Jersey, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Christopher McQuarrie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Top Gun: Maverick

Reacher

The Usual Suspects

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

Edge of Tomorrow

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Tom Cruise: The Last Movie Star

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

Valkyrie

NYPD Blue

Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'

Paradise Now

North by Northwest: One for the Ages

Jack Reacher

The Oscars

Persons Unknown

The Way of the Gun

The Tourist

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

The Valkyrie Legacy

Jack the Giant Slayer

Public Access

The Mummy

Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special

Broadsword

Deeper

The Gauntlet

King Conan

Battlefield