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Beyond the Screenplay

Episode 161: Mission: Impossible 3 & Ghost Protocol

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7626 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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The BTS team discusses how J.J. Abrams and Brad Bird helped cement the look and feel of the franchise, the differences between the heist and action genres, and the importance of developing emotional character relationships. 🚀 Sign up for MUBI today using https://mubi.com/beyondthescreenplay to get 30 days of great cinema for free. SUMMER: IMPOSSIBLE release schedule: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/posts/summer-release-83919760⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.

0:08.4

The podcast for each episode, we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.

0:14.0

Welcome to week four of our summer impossible season.

0:18.5

We are continuing our deep dive into the entire Mission Impossible franchise by diving

0:23.8

into Mission Impossible 3, written by Alex Kurtzman, Robert Orsie, J.J. Abrams, and directed by

0:31.0

JJ Abrams. And we're also talking about Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, written by Josh

0:37.2

Applebaum and Andre

0:38.5

Nemek, directed by Brad Bird. I'm joined by the Beyond Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.

0:45.2

Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner. Hello, hello. And Alex Cayeros. Hi.

0:51.4

Okay, so we're getting back into some Mission Impossible fun.

0:56.4

Next week and our summer schedule is going to be Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

1:02.0

Very excited to talk about whatever that movie is going to be.

1:06.6

I'm really excited.

1:07.8

It'll be fun.

1:09.1

And for people that want to check out our previous episode

1:12.4

from the last week, it's a patron exclusive episode on Asteroid City. So that is over on the

1:17.5

Beyond Screenplay Patreon, waiting for you guys. And the summer long battle between Barbie and

1:24.8

Oppenheimer reaches on. Currently, Barbie is in the lead. So if you

1:30.7

listener have something to say about that, whether you want Barbie to secure the victory or you

1:36.0

want more atom bombs in your life, head over the Beyond Screamplay Patreon where you can

1:40.7

make your voice heard in the Barbie versus Oppenheimer vote. Okay, so we're moving

1:46.7

forward in the Mission Impossible franchise, skipping over two. We don't need to talk about two.

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