But for Brain De Palma, the answer is clear when it comes to sequels of his 1996 hit Mission: Impossible.
After I made Mission: Impossible, Tom [Cruise] asked me to start working on the next one.
When it comes to the Mission Impossible sequels, it is hard to argue with De Palma’s sentiment that they were made to mint money.
For the longest time, the biggest attraction of a new Mission Impossible movie was in seeing how Cruise and his team would top the stunts of the previous film.