'Mission: Impossible 2' Co-Writer Reveals How 'Star Trek' Helped Save the Sequel
Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 2 wouldn’t exist without getting a little help from Captain Picard and the Borg.Twenty years ago, on May 24, 2000, director John Woo’s M:i-2 motorcycle-jousted into theaters as the first sequel in producer-star Cruise’s venerable big-screen franchise based on the classic TV show. Helping bring this extreme guilty pleasure to life, which centers on Imf Agent Ethan Hunt racing against time to stop a deadly virus (in between slow-mo gun fights and flying doves), was another movie based on a TV show: 1996’s Star Trek: First Contact. The second film to feature ... ...