Christopher McQuarrie
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Christopher McQuarrie is an American filmmaker. He received the BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the neo-noir mystery film The Usual Suspects.
McQuarrie in 2025
McQuarrie at premiere of Jack Reacher in 2012
McQuarrie, Kenneth R. Whitesell, Tom Cruise, Joseph Kosinski, and Jerry Bruckheimer at the premiere of Top Gun: Maverick at Naval Air Station North Island
McQuarrie and Tom Cruise at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
Top Gun: Maverick
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Top Gun: Maverick is a 2022 American action drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski and written by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie, from a story by Peter Craig and Justin Ma
Christopher McQuarrie
…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. McQuarrie was born in Princeton, New Jersey…
Theatrical release poster
Joseph Kosinski was attached as director in 2017.
Filming took place on the USS Abraham Lincoln.