Christopher McQuarrie Net Worth

Christopher McQuarrie's Quotes

• Action to me is something very fun to shoot.
• Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.
• I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.
• While I was a voracious moviegoer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
• A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

Interesting Facts about Christopher McQuarrie

1. Attended and graduated from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School in Central New Jersey (along with Bryan Singer).
2. Voted onto Premiere magazine's "25 Future Powers Under 35" list (2002) (age 33).
3. Won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay in The Usual Suspects (1995).
4. Had written considerable amount of dialog for the character Harold Longbaugh in the cult action film The Way of the Gun (2000). However, Benicio Del Toro suggested the "less is more" approach and had him cut down his lines.
5. According to the DVD commentary for the cult action film The Way of the Gun (2000), he hired Kristin Lehman for the role of Francesca Chidduck based on her performance in the romantic comedy Dog Park (1998).
6. Had done an uncredited rewrite of the screenplay for the sci-fi action film X-Men (2000). He chose not to have his name on the credits as he felt that the screenplay was mostly the vision of David Hayter.
7. Wrote a screenplay for The Wolverine (2013) which Darren Aronofsky was set to direct. After Aronofsky's departure from the film, McQuarrie's screenplay was heavily rewritten and his name was removed from the credits.
8. He was hired by frequent collaborator Tom Cruise to do revisions to the screenplay for Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011). McQuarrie's work was originally given a shared 'written by' credit. This was evident in the first trailer for the film. However, the Writer's Guild of America removed McQuarrie's name from any writing credit by the time the movie was released on December 16, 2011.
9. Christopher and his wife Heather McQuarrie are partners in the Invisible Ink production company.
10. In several interviews, McQuarrie has listed "The Big County" as one of his favourite movies. This movie was playing in the background of a scene in the movie Jack Reacher, which he wrote and directed.