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Oct 2023
42m 51s

Going Deep on "Dead Reckoning" with Simo...

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Simon Pegg (Benji) returns to the show, this time to go deep on all things “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.” We talk about the airplane sequence (which he equated to “Toy Story 2”), why Steven Spielberg would make a good fit for the franchise (plus how Spielberg hired him for another movie based on “Rogue Nation”) and the Ilsa/Benji relationsh ... Show More
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