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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) and Pixar's Newt (abandoned)

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) and Pixar's Newt (abandoned)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

May 19, 202557m 17s

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Show Notes

The future of the Mission: Impossible movies was up in the air after the third film, with Paramount Pictures and Tom Cruise parting ways. It took some bridge building to get a fourth movie going, and even then, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol would bring with it changes. Plus, a contingency plan to replace Tom Cruise as the figurehead of the franchise going forward...

Pixar meanwhile, around the same time, was working on an animated movie called Newt, that to this day remains the only time it announced a film, and then abandoned it.

Both stories are told in this episode...

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