Currently busy putting Tom Cruise through his paces again for the latest Mission: Impossible (or more likely trying not to sweat too much as Cruise pulls off crazy stunts), Christopher McQuarrie is also lining up a potential future movie. He's aiming to direct The Chameleon.
Sopranos and Wolf Of Wall Street veteran Terence Winter is working with co-writer Carl Capotorto to adapt David Grann's eponymous 2008 New Yorker feature. It tells the true story of Frédéric Bourdin, a French con man who became a serial impersonator of missing teenagers. One of his more successful cons was living with a Texas family for a while in the 1990s, posing as their missing brother.
It could be a fascinating story and would allow McQuarrie to work on something that doesn't require huge insurance backing. And both the director and main writer are keeping it in the family, since McQuarrie's producer wife Heather and Winter's own Oscar-nominated wife/producer Rachel are on board to produce the movie.
Mission: Impossible 6, meanwhile, arrives on 27 July next year.