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#13 - Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Faith That the Studio Must Have on That

Tom Cruise is held to the budget very strictly if he's going to try to pull out. The faith that the studio must have on that. Tom Cruise does some hustle. And I've heard both positives and negatives. It's weird because what you're saying, I feel like I heard the same things about the mummy and why that failed. But then on something like this, it seems like it's kind of its strength. How do we have this franchise and how does Tom come in and say, I want to hang off the helicopter? Which doesn't exactly work for a horror movie. That's the problem.

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