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What is Christopher McQuarrie's Net Worth?
Christopher McQuarrie is a film director, screenwriter, and producer who has a net worth of $40 million. Christopher McQuarrie's credits include "The Usual Suspects," "Jack Reacher," "Edge of Tomorrow," "Top Gun: Maverick," and multiple films in the "Mission: Impossible" franchise, starting with 2015's "Rogue Nation." For "The Usual Suspects," he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Among his other work, McQuarrie created the short-lived mystery drama television series "Persons Unknown."
Early Life and Education
Christopher McQuarrie was born on October 25, 1968 in Princeton, New Jersey. As a teenager, he attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, graduating in 1986. McQuarrie then moved to Australia and became an assistant at Christ Church Grammar School in Perth. He was ultimately fired after nine months. Subsequently, he hitchhiked around Australia for a few months before returning to the United States. McQuarrie then worked for a detective agency for four years.
Film Career
The first feature film McQuarrie worked on was "Public Access," which premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival. He co-wrote the film's screenplay with Michael Feit Dougan andBryan Singer, the latter of whom directed the film. McQuarrie went on to reunite with Singer for the 1995 crime thriller "The Usual Suspects," which McQuarrie wrote and Singer directed. Revolving around the interrogation of an enigmatic conman who survived a massacre, the film was a major critical and commercial success, and earned McQuarrie the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His next film was the 2000 neo-Western heist thriller "The Way of the Gun," which was also his directorial debut. StarringRyan PhillippeandBenicio del Toroas a pair of low-level criminals who kidnap a pregnant woman, the film earned mixed reviews and underwhelmed at the box office. McQuarrie didn't work on another feature film for a while after that.
Reuniting with director Bryan Singer, McQuarrie co-wrote the historical thriller "Valkyrie" with Nathan Alexander. Released in 2008, theTom Cruise-starring film depicts the 1944 plot to assassinateAdolf Hitler. "Valkyrie" was a box-office hit. McQuarrie subsequently co-wrote the 2010 romantic thriller "The Tourist" withJulian Fellowesand director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; starringJohnny DeppandAngelina Jolie, it too was a commercial success. McQuarrie's second feature film as director, the action thriller "Jack Reacher," was released in 2012. An adaptation ofLee Child'snovel "One Shot," the ninth book in the "Jack Reacher" series, the hit film stars Tom Cruise as the titular former US Army MP investigator. Next, McQuarrie co-wrote the 2013 fantasy adventure film "Jack the Giant Slayer" with Darren Lemke and Dan Studney; it was his fourth screenplay to be directed by Bryan Singer.
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