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 o...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special
2025
as Self
10 News First takes you behind the scenes on the making of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Angela Bishop chats with Tom Cruise for all the ...

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
as Passer-by (uncredited)
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe —...

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
Producer, Writer, Director
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe —...

Tom Cruise: The Last Movie Star
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Tom Cruise - actor, producer, daredevil. The face of Hollywood in the 1980s, after a mid-career meltdown, his future looked in doubt. But through a si...

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
as Passenger on train (uncredited)
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it...

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
Writer, Producer, Director
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it...

Top Gun: Maverick
2022
Screenplay, Producer
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” ...

Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018
as Mission Brief (Voice) (Uncredited)
When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the C...

Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018
Writer, Director, Producer
When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the C...

The Mummy
2017
Screenplay
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our c...

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016
Producer
Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when...

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2015
Director, Story, Screenplay
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed...

Edge of Tomorrow
2014
Screenplay
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within min...

Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
as Self
Cast and crew speak on adapting One Shot as the first Jack Reacher film, casting Tom Cruise, earning Lee Child's blessing, additional character qualit...

Jack the Giant Slayer
2013
Screenplay
The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unlea...

Jack Reacher
2012
Director, Screenplay
One morning in an ordinary town, five people are shot dead in a seemingly random attack. All evidence points to a single suspect: an ex-military snipe...

The Tourist
2010
Screenplay
American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

North by Northwest: One for the Ages
2009
as Self
A discussion of "North by Northwest" and its influence.

Valkyrie
2008
Screenplay, Producer
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to cre...

The Valkyrie Legacy
2008
as Self
Created as a companion documentary to the film "Valkyrie," this documentary details the true story behind the plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler.

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006
as Self
An appreciation and the story of the making of the 1941 film "The Maltese Falcon."

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
2006
as Self
Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing i...

Paradise Now
2005
Thanks
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
2002
as Self
Documentary that includes interviews with Singer as well as the rest of the cast - mainly Spacey. There is no "plot" or "promotional" elements to this...

The Way of the Gun
2000
Director, Screenplay
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and...

The Usual Suspects
1995
as Interrogation Cop (uncredited)
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also res...

The Usual Suspects
1995
Writer
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also res...

Public Access
1993
as Cop #1 / Our Town Caller
Brewster seems to be an almost too perfect example of idyllic small-town America, with everyone living in peace and harmony. So when newcomer Whiley P...

Public Access
1993
Writer
Brewster seems to be an almost too perfect example of idyllic small-town America, with everyone living in peace and harmony. So when newcomer Whiley P...

Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'
N/A
as Self
Documentary about the origins and making of the 1995 Oscar-winning suspense thriller. Includes rare unseen footage and revisits many of the film's ic...
Iron Curtain
N/A
Producer, Writer
Broadsword
N/A
Producer, Writer, Director
A Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) mission in World War II goes badly and leaves a Royal Marine Captain stranded in France as the sole survivor. ...

Deeper
N/A
Screenplay
A deep-sea dive turns into an unexpected psychological exploration for a former astronaut who signed up for the mission.