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Sit down and enjoy a pint. Your mission. Should you choose to accept it? Is to listen to the mission impossible episode of the Pubcast.
This time Eric and Allison joined me to break down this 1996 spy thriller starring Tom Cruise. This was obviously the beginning of the mission possible franchise and Tom Cruise saw the big picture of this concept way back in the mid 1990s. As this was the first film he ever produced. He smartly took no salary for this movie opting for a percentage of the gross which worked out quite nicely for him in a number of ways.
Anyway this movie has all the hallmarks of both a classic spy movie and a heist movie which is it. You'll have to listen to this episode to find out as we break down mission impossible. Saying Mr. Phelps.
This is your mission should you choose to accept it. Should you or any member of your IM4 speak caught or killed the secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions. Ethan Hunt will be your point man as usual. Good luck Jim.
Super game. Is he serious? Always. It's much worse music.
For being ambushed. The war that's an order. They knew. They knew we were coming.
Don't care how he did it. I don't know why he did it. You were enough me. I knew you survived.
I'm sure we can find something I have that do you need. No, sonny. These guys are trained to be ghosts. That's not waste time chasing after him.
Someone can come to us to find something that's personally important to him and you squeeze. And you're very upset. You've never seen me very upset. Let's take a stop to start in five seconds.
All right. Mission impossible. 1996. So not the.
Not the original. Not the sixties series. No nonsense plot. An American agent under false suspicion of disloyalty must discover and expose the real spy without help of his organization.
Great. Okay. Perfect. No.
I don't remember when I saw this one, but I definitely saw it in the theater. It was 96. I'm sure we saw it together. I'm sure we saw it together.
I have a lot of confidence. Yeah. That's the case. Yeah.
It would have been summer after you graduated. Summer after I graduated even. It was one of those movies that at the time felt big. Promotion was everywhere.
Tom Cruise's big deal. It was his first time as producer of a movie. Oh. And he actually did one of those deals where he didn't take any money up front.
He just took a percentage of the gross on the back. Oh, I think I saw that. And his what did they offer him? It was like a ginormous salary like it was a percentage of the gross profits, but it was no before.
What did he turn down? I think I wanted to ask you because the number I saw is so ludicrous that he turned down. Well, he ended up making 70 million on the movie. Okay.
The number he turned down was 20 million salary. Yeah. Which is an insane salary. Well, as it turned down, even now that's a big number at the time guys like him and Jim Carrey and whoever Tom Haines or whoever was the other Harrison Ford, couple of big guys there were making that was the going rate for the top stars.
I know, but the idea of turning down that flat lead salary. He did the math. Sure. It's making an assumption that it's not like water world, you know, like where it's just a pile of garbage.
Yeah. Yeah. It was it was pretty insane. I can look it up.
The director was Brian DiPoma. Okay. What's the interesting choice for him? Yeah.
I saw somewhere who I see like what is he directed? Like Scarface the Intouchables. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. He's from that group of like Spielberg, Scorsese, DiPoma, all those guys like knew each other. Godfather. I would say that in general, like I can identify like actors that have been in like of scare actors that have been in certain movies.
I am that good at directors. I'm not either necessarily. Sometimes I can figure it out just by seeing it because of the style. Sure.
I don't mean the obvious obvious Spielberg, but you'll catch one like, oh, that's definitely a Victorian film or whatever, you know, I don't even know who that is. But okay. I mean, the director of Dihard. Really?
Yeah. Dihard, Predator, Humph for Red October? Humph for Red October. Dihard, Red October.
If you see him back to back, you can get a feel for that style. Anyway. Okay. I mean, I mean, I mean, that's better than me.
Like I am a fincher. Fincher I can guess. I can guess Guy Ritchie, usually. I can guess Wes Anderson.
Yeah. It's a few. And that's about it. Like even like Eric's probably better than I am.
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, DiPoma, I don't know that I have a feel for his work, but I know a lot of stuff he doesn't like. But so anyway, what I wanted to get into in this early part of the podcast, I had a question that came up, I wrote it down during the movie last night.
I never thought I'd ask this. No, it's not that crazy. But it's mission impossible. The team is called the IMF, the Impossible Mission Force, right?
It's all about spies. Is this a spy movie or is this a heist movie? Because it's got all the harm hallmarks of a heist movie. Only at the very end is it really a spy movie, I guess, on the train.
But short of even that, that's just a weird action movie. Well, I think it's a heist wrapped in a spy movie. Like it's, it's like a Tootsie Roll Pop. Like there's a heist is kind of in the middle of it, but everything around it is by me.
Yeah, I would agree with that. Yeah, a lot of times spy movies are it's the spy trying to stop a heist or the equivalent of heist. This is the spy and his team being the heist team. But if you, yeah, right.
But everything before and after the, I mean, I'm like, yeah, starting to get into like things I want to talk about with the movie. But the whole, and you pick it up more the second time you watch it, right? Because it's it's all of the giveaways are told kind of at the end. Let me walk you around the room, you know, and then you kind of look and you're like, Oh, there's that person's looking that person's looking like you don't notice it the first time you're watching it.
But then you see there's this whole secondary story that's happening or secondary to set characters. Transpose that with Ocean's 13 when they're they do that. You got the clearly team, then you have to tour the French guy. Yeah, and they're both doing separate heist, but then one team is observing the other one.
It's reminding me, I thought of that when I was watching last night, you have a spy team, I'm a team and you have a second I'm a team watching the first one. It was very heist adjacent to what I was thinking. Yeah. Yep.
Previously, I thought, Oh, it's obviously a spy movie, of course. It's kind of, yeah, it's a it's a heist movie wearing spy movie clothes. The posting that she can book clothing. Eric, what do you think other than just cosplaying with 1000?
Yeah, to be honest, I never even thought of it that way. But yeah, it's I would I would still call it a spy movie. Yeah. I think first I would too.
Yeah. That interesting question. I know it was interesting intriguing. And then one of the things that stood out while watching it and I couldn't help mention it over watching it was because of the time of the movie 1996, yes, and some of the things they were trying to pull off with technology.
Seeing what they came up with and made up other assets, even at the time, I remember I was talking about like, that's not how the internet works. Like that's not I don't know what that was or he's using or what what that search engine is. But he searched he searched, Joe, but JOB and got no results. Right.
Right. Yeah, I think I said the same thing. I'm like, when was the last time you saw any Google search and got zero results? I was making notes of that.
I was making specific notes about that. I was watching a key search Bible and got there in 26 results. Right. Bible, JOB, a.k.a.
job. I know. Zero results. To connect to the internet, he actually types internet access.
He types it out. He's got a 96. That was ludicrous. Right.
I mean, I'm trying to think so when they actually filmed it before like doing whatever post production, it was in 94, 95, maybe this came out in 96. I mean, I'd have to go back and look and see when the various browsers and search engines were started. But stuff was out there. I mean, there was.
Yeah, Windows was a thing. So, in a better explorer theory, what about a thing? AOL, Excite. I don't think there's other stupid search engines.
Yahoo. I don't know what exactly it's crazy. It's fine. It worked out great.
You overlooked it. But even in the moment, you're like, hmm, that's fantasy. It's a fantasy world. Yeah.
The whole how the mail goes out. The little graphic. Graphic mail. Well, I mean, everybody's talking about he types out his message in English and then sends out, I don't know, 10, 12, 40 different other versions of that and he types it in different languages because he knows languages, I guess, opposed to copying and pasting and then having the translate translate it.
Maybe that was a function of 96, but I don't know, it was very dated, that part of it. I mean, forget about the cell phones or what? Yeah. We have the other one that I wrote down that ridiculous use of the internet.
He tries max.com and that does not exist. Mission Impossible was the third highest grossing movie of that year. The top 10 included Independence Day, 306 million. Twister, 241 million.
Mission Impossible, well Independence Day and Twister, Bill pasting and Bill. Oh, yeah. They're fighting for the lead in that year. Yeah.
Well, I'll take Bill Pullman any day. Okay. Mission Impossible, third of 180 million. And then we go to the rock, the money professor.
That's the one with. Any Murphy? Yeah. Ransom, the bird cage, the time to kill 101 downmations and the first wives club.
Yeah. Oh, that was a big Matthew McConaughey's. Yeah. Time to kill.
That was his big breakthrough. Yeah. Of those 10, I'll take, I'll take Mission Impossible and I'll take the bird cage, but I could pretty much leave the rest. Yeah.
Yeah. The rest of them are not great movies. I mean, the time to kill is good. It's just not a movie I would choose to rewatch.
No. When we do the best movie here thing, I don't think 96 is going to make it. 96 is. So, Mission Impossible, it made 180.
It only cost 80 million to make. I say only because that's without a fee for Tom Cruise. Right. Throw him in there and it's over 100.
Right. So, it's still a good return. It's a good return. I only doubled its money.
I mean, that doesn't include marketing and stuff. So, who knows? It actually actually profit. Is that, is that worldwide or is that domestic?
Right. This is domestic. This is all domestic growth. So, well, why do I do?
I'm not sure, but probably double it, right? Right. Close to it. Run to make a score.
You want the audience first or the critics first? Audience. What do you think the audience gave the first Mission Impossible? Third highest grossing.
I'm going to say 85. Eric. I'm going to say 75. Audience gave it a lukewarm 71.
Really? No. I'm surprised that well. It had to be an 80.
Okay. And now the critics. Oh, no. They like it.
I will say 65. Let me say 70. Almost got it. The critics gave it a 66.
Wow. So, 66% of the critics might get it. It's actually two thirds. Yeah.
That would figure. The audience. I'm surprised that's not the 80s. It's a perfect summer popcorn, blockbuster, tonkers.
Fun. Right. What was the one I was wanting from that? It's better than like twister.
It's kind of a bit of action scene at the end. It's got a little bit of spice stuff, a little bit of high stuff. It's Tom Cruise. It's from what I was reading about the movie last night.
I feel like there was a bit of a little bit of backlash against it because of it wasn't loyal to the source material. Oh, really? Yeah. Because like the John Voigt character is Peter Graves from the TV show.
And the way that he sort of became the villain and sort of it turned off a lot of the diehard bands of the TV show. Yeah. People were wanting it to be more like the show and not in its own movie. Yeah.
I mean, all right. I don't know how many like quote unquote main characters were in the original series. What would say it was four or five? I got to get a course three years four or five.
Only one was in this movie. Jim Phelps. And he was not that big of a character in this movie. He was important, but he didn't have as much screen time as I know.
I have to say, I don't know that I ever watched the show. Like I saw the episode of it. Like even like on reruns or you know, then like replaying it on a Sunday afternoon or anything. I'm trying to think about the time and it was people will say they liked it.
I've never seen anyone say, oh, I have the DVD set or Oh, I've been watching Netflix. Yeah. Whatever. No, people do that with Star Trek or whatever 60s show, but not I don't hear.
I have a friend, even I recently like a couple of months ago, we're having a conversation about Mission Impossible and he actually he had because he'd been spending a lot of evenings watching the old episodes and talking about how much you really like them. Wow. Because it wasn't about it was it was the movies have actually obviously become all about, you know, big action and stunts and things like that. But the TV show was very it was about outsmarting the other people.
And it was the way that they sort of unveiled the plot. It was a very it was a much more there was more tension there. Well, that keep shooting on my point, Eric. That's what I say.
No one's ever said that to me or anybody. Yeah. I'm kidding. Yeah.
Yeah. It's the one conversation that that's the one time one time I ever had any that conversation with anybody, but I didn't have one. I think my percentage you still win on that because of all the people any of us have talked to you, Eric's got one person. Right.
I think that's definitely valid point. And according to Martin Landau, in an earlier treatment, the original plan was to bring back the entire cast of the television series in the movie in an earlier as an earlier as one of the IMF teams that was doing a thing. No, doing a I almost had a heist to goddamn it. Doing a mission and having them all get killed.
You know, in some, you know, things that they had to pave way then for the new fan service of the old people being there, but they all got killed off because of some double cross or whatever. And here's a new team that you're taking over. I feel like that would make people more upset. I think that's true that they didn't do it.
Yeah. Okay. This is the only film in the franchise where the character Ethan Hunt doesn't fire a gun. And it's the only one not to have shootouts or gunfights.
The body count for this entire movie is just seven people. Yeah. And it's mostly at the beginning, right? Yeah, I think so.
Well, we count the Krieger and Phelps exploding in the helicopter at the end. There's two. There's six bullet. There's six one.
There's three. And then you've got what's his name getting spiked in the elevator? There's four. And then Mio.
That was much more graphic than I remember it being. It's like just on there for a flash, but he gets. I want to let's talk about that. I want to go back and watch it like frame by frame because I don't know what's going on there.
He's still sitting up. I didn't even lay down. Right. I guess it's like then he just gets stabbed a hundred times.
Elevator goes up in those. They're not exactly spikes, but they're some sort of safety or stopping device for the elevator before it hits the ceiling, basically. But also, there's one unusually long and jagged sword-like thing that comes down. And that's what gets him.
That one thing gets him. And he moved to the right eight and a half inches. It would have missed him, and then he would have been fine. I don't know.
It was like how he was looking up watching it happen. It was like an awesome power. Exactly. No.
The steam roller. The steam roller for the Zamboni in Deadpool. Same thing. Yeah.
That's the whole face ridiculous. Immediately, West of As, as Jack in this movie, did the role and is uncredited. He's not in the credits as a character at all. His name doesn't appear anywhere.
Really? What is that? No, fine. I know.
He did it. I forget why or how, but he's uncredited. Wow. Yeah.
And then what's her name? And then the spy. They were killed at the gate. Yeah, right.
Right. Sarah, is it Sarah? Yeah. Chris, it's got Silas.
Sarah and... Dolets. I, one of my theology teachers at Marquette, his last name was Gilletson. Oh my God.
He was a Russian Orthodox Christian. I guess Russian Orthodox Christian. Me and that's Marquette, I assume. And he was about six foot five long, long beards.
He exactly rescued. Six five. Would wear like a like two nicks. No.
Covered shoulder to below his calf. With like a big fur hat. Not in a winter as a fur hat, but like would wear like some sort of a squared off like Muslim type hat. Oh my God.
He was he was a Rasputin. Oh my God. Last name was Gilletson. Wow.
Okay. Mission possible is the last motion picture from a major studio to be released on home or for home video on Betamax. No, I did see that. That's amazing.
I can't believe I had no idea of Betamax that long. I didn't either. That's kind of crazy. This, you can see this in the movie, but or at least part of this in the movie, but just for those that care, the knock list.
Yeah. NOC list then no C agent or non-official cover is a dis is disavowed by his or home. So a not agent is disavowed by his or her own country. Should he be here?
She'd be captured. Which essentially means he or she would be executed as an authorized spy. Hence the not list gets out. All those people would be left to be on their own and be killed.
Right. Yeah. We can't talk about a movie, but it's for clarity. When Cruz is Ethan Hunt looks over the list of aliases and codenames on the not list, one of them is Maverick.
I saw that. That's awesome. You know, Maverick. When Jim Phelps is getting his mission on the airplane, his team is showing one by one with their names and aliases.
Here are the aliases listed. Jack Harmon is in the U.S. about his alias is Tony Beretta, which is the character from the cop show Beretta. Oh, really?
Yeah. Sarah Davies, which is Chris and Scott Thomas. Her alias is Sarah Walker. Hannah Williams alias is Pauline Brady.
And Ethan Hunt's alias is Philippe DuShette. Interesting. All that means nothing. Great.
Another small point I found it fascinating is watching it that they let Jim, he was smoking on an airplane. That's all that we did. Which, yeah, even 96, that was not happening. Yeah.
So I got good for you. I don't know if you saw this, but Claire's character was inspired by the character Vespers Lin from the fun. I saw something like that. Yeah.
Yeah. Like, oh, you kind of look back now at it. It's like, oh, yeah, I can kind of see that connection. There were scenes cut from the script or cut in editing room that more overtly solidified the relationship between Ethan Hunt and Claire.
Yeah. There was something going on there. But it was, it's easy to miss it in the movie. Right.
But the exploding fish tank stunt was reportedly Cruz's idea. Departama tried to shoot it with a stunt double, but the results were unconvincing. So that really is done, Cruz, and he's fleeing from 16 tons of water. So did they do that twice, like, multiple times?
I did read that. Yeah. When it's when it's when it's when it's when it's facing the building and the water's coming towards the camera and it's time for his jumping. That's happening, like, in, like, Pinewood studios.
But then when it's facing the other way and he's running out into the square away from the water, that's like on location and Prague. Right. Right. Okay.
Which we were when we were there, we tried to figure out exactly like where which storefront that point of view was from. We were definitely in that whole town square. We couldn't speak. Obviously that Aquarium, Aquo, whatever it's called, our restaurant is not real, but we couldn't find where it was supposed to be.
Yeah. Exactly. But there were definitely like, we were in in and around a lot of the places where that movie was shot. And definitely, we were talking about this movie as we were there trying to figure out where certain buildings were or which scene was shot where.
Yeah. It's kind of cool because, you know, it doesn't take a lot of effort to go see and realize, oh, this was shot here. This is shot there where he was. We did this.
It's pretty good. Yeah. The six digit code to the vault holding the knock list. 7, 8, 9, 5, 5, 1.
Courtesy of William demo. I don't think it means anything. Oh, I was like waiting for the punchline. Like, what are we doing?
I'm like, is it spelling something? Like, what are we doing? Turn it upside down and it said boobs. I don't know what it is.
I don't have a ton more trivia. I have some casting stuff. I have one thing I want to mention, but it could be after this stuff. So I saw one thing that the white vault was inspired by 2001, a space odyssey to have it be like this ultra modern kind of absence of all human feeling, emotion, warmth, anything like that, which I thought was kind of interesting.
And then the other thing that I've got, I'll let don't let Erick go is the slate of hand tricks that were happening was actually Tom Cruise, that there were no camera tricks. The one he does with the CD out to the side, I have a hard time believing there's no CG involved in that one. After he does it, if you look closely, you can see the desk up his sleeves. You can see the shape of it in his sleeve.
Then I believe it. Because I was thinking he was trying to hide it in his hand or behind his hand. And the width of that CD is just a too big can't fit behind his hand. I need to mention it's not a word in his sleeve.
Makes sense. Not to go back and watch it. But I did definitely appreciate that now, but I do want to know, did he learn that for the movie or is he is he all into close up magic? He is in the close up magic.
It's Tom Cruise, mine for you. He is he is with the judge from my court and they're just doing tricks with each other. Was it Harry Anderson? It's Tom Cruise and David Blaine going, oh my God, you know, to Dallas Cowboys and tricking Deon Sanders with some close up magic.
Yeah. I mean Eric, for you to jump in if you have something, but I did see they are currently in production with Mission Impossible 7 and 8. Oh, God. Yeah.
Well, 7 for sure. I think they were supposed to be doing it back to back, but because of COVID, I think they postponed 8. Sure. I was thinking maybe that your combination was going to be the number of Mission Impossibles that they were going to make.
789-551. The interesting thing I saw about Number 7 and 8 is that it looks like Kitch Rich is coming back for both those movies. Oh, really? Yes.
Yes. Same actor. I think this is the same actor. Same actor.
Which, as a side note, we can get there. We get there. But why isn't that actor in everything? He's always he's in like two of my favorite movies and he's really good.
Yeah. As a dick. Yeah. What else is he in?
Uh, Creative President Danger? Oh, yes. He definitely wasn't that. He's got a jail free card.
And if I'm not, I've called him, if I'm not mistaken, isn't Max's bodyguard? Guy who's got the long one here in this one. Isn't he, doesn't he show up again and like goes protocol? Oh, well.
It's just a good singing thing. He's like, turns around and he's there. He's a bodyguard for somebody else. And he just sort of, there's a look of recognition and then they just sort of carry on.
Well, that would be awesome. I want to say that. That's important. I think that's it.
And that's, and why was he not played by, um, is that Alexander Goodnoff from, sorry, everybody? Good. Now you're just, you finally got the right one to go. That guy, that big blonde German henchman, was also one of the German henchmans in Diehard.
Oh, really? He was the guy who was fighting Bruce Willis with the gray track suit on. Yeah. Oh, the brother.
It was his brother. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now would you say that that's absolutely him.
It's totally him. By the way, he had the largest overcoat on that I have ever seen on any human being. Yeah. Like there are like 17 people under there.
He has like 80s level football. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. It was distracting how much was going on there. His name.
All of them have big overcoats on. But that was insane. That whose name is Andre Woznuski. No.
Yes. Which, when I saw him like, oh, he is the guy from. That's amazing. Diehard.
I wouldn't check that. That is. So he has a connection to the blonde hair in Diehard. Yeah.
And he kind of. Don't look. Yeah. He's still identity for Mission Impossible.
And which one did you say that he shows back up in those protocols? I think it's Ghost Protocol. Oh my god. That's amazing.
That's amazing. I've looked that up at some point. OK. Casting.
Yes. I'm going to wait for Ethan to make sure that we can back to the same problem we had with Jim Phelps. People who were considered for the part of Jim Phelps include Al Pacino, Michael Douglas, and Robert Redford. So instead of John Boyd.
There's a name that's not on here that I think A should have been on the list. B, if you put this guy in for John Boyd, I think the movie is better. I think it's a better. Interesting.
That's the first guy. And that is Gene Hackman. I want Gene Hackman as Phelps. I don't want John Boyd to know.
I don't think he's any good. I think he's bad in this movie. I think there's nothing to him. By the way, I have to say watching this movie, John Boyd is way younger in this movie than I thought he was.
Like I was like, I was like, oh my god. She's like young. And it is not as big of a stretch that he's married to Claire. As opposed to when I first watched this movie, I'm like, why in the world is she with a 70 year old man?
Yeah. So in the movie, even the actress, she's like, I don't know, I call it 34, but three, I don't know. And he's like 53, two, I don't know. Yeah.
Yeah, I know that. Yeah, I want Gene Hackman in that role. I don't want John Boyd. It needed a touch more personality, I think, to it.
But yeah. I'm not a big joke. I had mine minded Robert Redford, though. I think that would have been good, too.
Yeah. He sort of plays that character now in like the Avengers. Yeah. Well, Gene Hackman did it in a few different movies, kind of.
So yeah. It would have been, I don't know. It might have been too much like the firm, because it was time for the Gene Hackman, but the first thing that I thought of. Well, then bring in Wilford Brimley.
Let's just do that. Wilford Brimley B. Max. By the way, that was supposed to be, well, maybe you were going to talk about this now.
The Max character was originally supposed to be played by a man. They just didn't change the name. I didn't see that, but totally. Yeah.
I like the it is played by Wilford. Yeah. I didn't see any who else was considered for that role. We'll see.
Claire, I have two. Director, Brian DePalma, originally offered the role to Juliet Benosch. And it says the role was also originally offered to Genevieve. I'll say it because I don't know French.
Boojold, Boohold, B-U-J-L-D. I don't know who that is, but do we have Benosch? Brian. Benoschae?
Isn't it Benoschae? Is it? Isn't it? I always say Benosch.
I thought it was Benosch. Is it Benosch? I believe so, yeah. Do you think you need more conversion of it?
I don't know how it's deep. Actually pronounced. All right. French is not my strong sweet.
I can't even fake it to get through it. No. What was Robby's? Gene Reno?
Gene Reno was in his movie. Yep. I was waiting for Gene Reno to come up again. Oh, I have much to say about Gene Reno later.
OK, Ethan Hunt. OK. I have a few of these, but I have no faith that all of them are accurate. So let's take it all with a grain of salt.
OK. Potentials for Ethan Hunt include Bruce Willis, John Chivolta, Nicholas Cage, Ralph Fiennes. Oh. Really?
If you're playing an American spy, he has his American accent total. Ann Mel Gibson. And I have George Clooney was offered the part, but he turned it down to work on the movie One Find Day. That's all I got for that.
I don't love any of those, really. It's kind of it. Because I always thought Cruz bought the, like he was the leader of this thing, bought the rights, and he's cast themselves. He was a producer.
At no point was anyone else considered. I can't imagine. That's what I would have expected. Anybody else being considered seems like.
Not positive about that, but that's what I've always thought. You know, he was behind getting this thing made. So I don't know what else is considered. That's all I got other than the awesome Andrei Worsniewski Max's instrument information.
OK. It's time to be cast to be. It's better. Better close the door.
It's time to be cast to be. Now, huh. We've got the Fab Five. We've got Ethan Hunt, Jim Phelps, Claire, Krieger, and Luther.
And we've got two others, Kitrich and Max. And then as a bonus, if we want everybody wants to chime in on, we have the three team members that were killed, Jack, Sarah, and Hannah. OK. Before we get into the nitty gritty of this, I have that.
And back and forth of who does what? I have an alternate universe. Oh my gosh. Eric, he has a whole new paper.
That's exciting. So I was thinking of this. And I was trying to do a, let's swap the cast deal. I was trying to do like a James Bond or a born identity or something where there'd be like four or five people that would work from here over there.
Got it. OK. I found one that pretty much works. Interesting.
OK. Now, I usually get tied up with the agents. Well, these are connected to it. Ages are out the window with all this.
Even my choices for the characters when we get into it, ages and careers, Tom Cruise, age versus John Voy versus Claire. So I did that with the swap out anyway. The swap out that I came up with, I think, really kind of actually works. And it's a current movie or it's a current movie.
OK. So swapping out the one, two, three, four, five, six, all seven, the Fab Five plus the next two, swap all of them out with the cast of the gentlemen. Oh. So Ethan Hunt is Matthew McConaughey.
Right. Luther Charlie Hunt. OK. Krieger Colin Farrell.
OK. Claire Michelle Daugherty. Yeah. Jim Phelps, Hugh Grant.
Yes. Kitrich Eddie Marsan, big Dave, the little guy. Yeah. And then Max, there wasn't a woman character in the gentlemen.
So Max is Jeremy Strong. Oh my god. That's a good. It's pretty good.
Zach has to get it. I think it kind of works. It's a different kind of movie, but I think it kind of works. That's interesting.
So that was my wild card. OK. I don't think it's going to be the next one. Although even in the normal stuff, I have another wild card.
OK. So I'm wondering if I should do my wild card first here, because it might be. So I cast the seven as a group first, specifically because I did a trick, did one trick to them. We don't often do, we've done it before, but not that often.