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Appelbaum and Nemec utilize the franchise’s signature trope (rubber masks) not as a gimmick, but as a plot engine. The script establishes the mask in the first scene, pays it off in the Kremlin heist, and then subverts it when the villain, Hendricks, uses the same technology to frame the IMF.

: Mid-shoot, Christopher McQuarrie was brought in to simplify a "very complicated" mystery. His contribution focused on clarity and character motivation, famously adding the "blue is glue, red is dead" line to quickly explain the Burj Khalifa climbing gadgetry. mission impossible ghost protocol script

Christopher McQuarrie buries Brad Bird's career on Ghost Protocol famously adding the "blue is glue

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