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DESCRIPTION: This week we reach the centerpiece of our ongoing “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” celebration, as we chat with screenwriters and co-producers Josh Applebaum and André Nemec. In this episode we talk about the genesis for the project, discuss how Tom Cruise astutely nixed the Harrison Ford casting, and confirm that the record store opening of “Rogue Nation” was actually conceived for “Ghost Protocol.” And, of course, we get new details about the abandoned snowmobile sequence. Released December 10th, 2021.

SHOW NOTES: As mentioned in the episode, click here if you want to put together a costume like Ethan Hunt’s climbing gear from the Burj sequence in “Ghost Protocol”...

In the interview we discuss a foot chase through a ship graveyard that was in an earlier draft of the script. Here’s an article about the real beach in India.

We also discuss the never filmed snowmobile chase in “Ghost Protocol.” Here’s a costume test for Paula Patton for the sequence. This was shared with us by costume designer Michael Kaplan (episodes 97 and 98)...

And here’s a sampling of some of the storyboards that were created for the snowmobile chase by storyboard artist Dan Sweetman...