Episode 160: Mission: Impossible
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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The BTS team discusses the film that launched a multi-billion dollar movie franchise—Brian De Palma's stylish direction, the paranoia and distrust at the heart of the plot, and why the vault mission may be the greatest heist sequence of all time.
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| 0:58.5 | Hi, I'm Michael, and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. |
| 1:03.3 | The podcast for each episode, we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film. |
| 1:07.2 | Welcome to Week 2 of our Summer Impossible season. |
| 1:11.8 | In this episode, we are beginning our exploration of the Mission Impossible franchise with Mission Impossible, the 1996 film written by David Kep and Robert Town, directed by |
| 1:18.1 | Brian De Palma based on the TV show of the same name, created by Bruce Geller. I'm joined |
| 1:23.5 | by the Beyond Screenplay team, Trisha Arand. Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner. |
| 1:28.8 | Hello, hello, hello, hello. |
| 1:32.3 | And Alex Cayeros. |
| 1:34.3 | Hi. |
| 1:35.3 | Okay, so like I said, week two of our summer impossible season. |
| 1:39.5 | Last week, we did Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse, and now we are diving into a Mission Impossible |
| 1:45.5 | franchise, which I'm very, very excited about. I looked it up because I was like, this has been a |
| 1:51.6 | successful franchise, right? And it's been $3.5 billion successful. Yeah. It's done pretty well. |
| 1:59.6 | And one of the things I'm excited to dive into as we go across this whole franchise leading up to Dead Reckoning is kind of tracking the evolution of this IP because it's changed a lot in a really interesting way, I think, where we're starting off in this movie where it's very |
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