Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol • The Next Reel

The Next Reel Film Podcast · Jun 15, 2023 · 1h 10m

“You actually said that out loud? ‘Mission accomplished?’”

Ethan Hunt Shifts Gears and Finds His Groove

Brad Bird’s on board the franchise, getting a chance to not only make his first live action film but also to do so in a major franchise with giant set pieces and mega-stars. Perhaps that’s what the franchise needed, after all of Cruise’s antics around the time the third film was released. There was even talk that this film might have been his last as the franchise lead, turning it over to Jeremy Renner from this point forward. But things worked out, perhaps because of Bird’s injection of…