How Ethan Hunt, Korben Dallas and Poncefort Pike became the oddly-named saviours of film
Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible 3 Credit: Film Stills/Stephen Vaughan “Be honest,” the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Josh Olson asked on Twitter yesterday. “Without looking it up, can you remember the name of Tom Cruise’s character in the Mission: Impossible movies?” The answer, obviously, is Ethan Hunt – aka “the living manifestation of destiny,” as Alec Baldwin snarled in the series’s fifth instalment. Olson’s underlying point, I think, is that Ethan Hunt isn’t a distinctive name for a man whose athleticism and daring makes him one in seven billion ...
Source: telegraph.co.uk
