Christopher McQuarrie received the BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the neo-noir mystery film The Usual Suspects.
14 Facts About Christopher McQuarrie
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Christopher McQuarrie made his directorial debut with the crime thriller film The Way of the Gun.
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Christopher McQuarrie wrote The Usual Suspects, for which he received Best Screenplay awards from the British and American Academy Awards, as well as from Premiere Magazine, the Texas Board of Review, and the Chicago Critics, as well as the Edgar Award and Independent Spirit Award.
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In 2000, Christopher McQuarrie made his directorial debut with The Way of the Gun, a modern-day Western for which he wrote the script.
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Eight years later, Christopher McQuarrie co-wrote and co-produced Valkyrie, which opened on December 25,2008, and is based on the real-life July 20,1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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In 2009, Christopher McQuarrie was hired to pen the script for the then-untitled The Wolverine.
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Christopher McQuarrie co-wrote the 2010 film The Tourist with Julian Fellowes, Jeffrey Nachmanoff and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
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Christopher McQuarrie then provided uncredited rewrites on the 2011 action spy film Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol during the film's production.
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In 2011, Christopher McQuarrie directed his second feature, Jack Reacher, an adaptation of One Shot, the ninth in the series of 21 Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child.
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In 2012, Christopher McQuarrie stepped in to rewrite the script for World War Z after Drew Goddard and Damon Lindelof left the film.
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Christopher McQuarrie co-wrote the 2014 science fiction action thriller Edge of Tomorrow with Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, based on the Japanese novel All You Need Is Kill.
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In November 2015, Christopher McQuarrie confirmed he would return to write and direct the sixth Mission: Impossible film, his third directing collaboration with Tom Cruise.
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In February 2011, Christopher McQuarrie was hired by Skydance Media to write and produce a feature film adaptation of the 1970s animated television series Star Blazers.
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Christopher McQuarrie has signed on to direct thrillers Ice Station Zebra, based on the 1963 novel and its 1968 film adaptation, Three to Kill, based on the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, and The Chameleon, based on a New Yorker article by David Grann about Frederic Bourdin.