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Network/TNS 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 12, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Making it possible ‘I had a very strong idea of what the beginning of this movie would be and I had a very strong idea of what the end of this movie would be, then a global pandemic came and that has changed the way we make movies,’ writer-director Christopher McQuarrie tells Josh Rottenberg on the verge of completing the seventh instalment of Mission: Impossible HIGHEST GROSSER: The highest-grossing film in the Mission series — and, for that matter, of Cruise’s entire career — Fallout earned $791 million worldwide.