Age: 57
male
Christopher McQuarrie (born October 25, 1968) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. He received the BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the neo-noir mystery film The Usual Suspects (1995). He made his directorial debut with the crime thriller film The Way of the Gun (2000). McQuarrie is a frequent collaborator with Tom Cruise, having written and directed the action films Jack Reacher (2012), as well as four instalments of the Mission: Impossible film series: Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), Dead Reckoning (2023), and The Final Reckoning (2025). He was also a part of the 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Christopher McQuarrie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
After the destruction of his home planet Kal El is sent to Earth as a baby where he is raised by an Earth couple named Martha and Johnathan Kent. After years of not knowing who he truly is Kal now named Clark is given the pod that brought him to Earth by Martha after the death of Johnathan. With the pod he manages to find a fortress of solitude left to him by his birth parents. Meanwhile another Kryptonian by the name of Zod who survived the destruction of his and Clark's planet Krypton plans to terraform Earth and create a new Krypton. Throughout the movie Clark gets a job at the Daily Planet a local news station in the city of Metropolis, falls in love with his coworker Lois Lane, and tries to convince the world that he isn't a threat. The movie ends with a huge fight between Clark and Zod which ends in Clark snapping Zod's neck.
