Mission: Film a major action movie amid COVID 19. For Christopher McQuarrie, it`s not impossible
(WorldNews Entertainment)

In each successive outing of the long-running `Mission: Impossible` franchise, star Tom Cruise and the rest of the creative team have looked for ever more daring ways to live up to the title, whether having Cruise`s superspy Ethan Hunt scale the world`s tallest building, Dubai`s Burj Khalifa, in 2011`s `Ghost Protocol` or staging a death-defying helicopter chase in 2018`s `Fallout.` But of all the challenges the series has taken on, nothing quite tops a pandemic. In an interview Thursday from London, where he is in pre-production on the as-yet-untitled seventh installment, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie said the film had been two days away from shooting in Venice, Italy, in March when...