I knew there was a television show, but hadn’t watched it. Its surprising that it was a continuation of the series.
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coffinwood@feddit.de 10 months agoI never forgave them making Jim Phelps a bad guy. Worst entry in the series for me, but I really wanted to like it. Sounds petty, I know. It just dishonoured the original series.
TheShadowKnows@lemmy.world 10 months ago
athos77@kbin.social 10 months ago
There was a book or something on the making of the TV series, and every year they'd get at least one new writer in who'd be all ooh, I have the best idea for a story, let me tell you about it, and it'd be the same idea: they were misled into the mission. And the show runners had to shut that down every single time. They said that one of the core tenets of the show was that the voice on the tape (the people sending them on missions) had to be absolutely 100% reliable.
I've never forgotten that line from the book. Nor have I ever quite forgiven the movie makers for thinking up the same 'clever' idea everyone else had already had, and so drastically misunderstanding one of the core tenets of the series.