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“Paramount Pictures owned the rights to the television series, and had tried for years to make a movie version, but had failed to come up with a viable treatment. Tom Cruise had been a fan of the show since he was young and thought that it would be a good idea for a movie. Cruise chose Mission: Impossible to be the first project of his new production company and convinced Paramount Pictures to put up an $80 million budget.” Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible (1996) dir. Brian De Palma Released May 22, 1996