Title: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Content:  ; Anil Kapoor as Brij Nath, a media tycoon at Mumbai. ; Léa Seydoux as Sabine Moreau, an assassin who worked for Hendricks at Dubai. ; Samuli Edelmann as Marius Wistrom, a Hendrick's handler at Dubai. ; Ivan Shvedoff as Leonid Lisenker, a Hendrick's handler. ; Miraj Grbić as Bogdan, a prisoner in Russian jail at Moscow. ; Ilia Volok as The Fog, an arms dealer and Bogdan's cousin ; Andreas Wisniewski as The Fog's contact ; Tom Wilkinson (uncredited) as IMF Secretary. ; Ving Rhames (uncredited cameo) as Luther Stickell ; Michelle Monaghan (uncredited cameo) as Julia Meade-Hunt, Ethan's wife 
Title: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Content:  working name of Mission: Impossible 4 and code-named "Aries" during early production. By August 2010, title considerations did not include the Mission: Impossible 4 name, and thought was given to omitting the specific term "Mission: Impossible", which Variety compared to Christopher Nolan's Batman sequel film The Dark Knight. In late October 2010, the title was confirmed as Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Christopher McQuarrie (who later directed Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Mission: Impossible – Fallout) did an uncredited rewrite of the screenplay, explaining that: "On Ghost Protocol I came in on the middle of the shoot to do a rewrite of the screenplay, though 
Title: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Content:  Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is a 2011 American action spy film directed by Brad Bird and written by Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec. It is the fourth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series, and also Bird's first live-action film. It stars Tom Cruise, who reprises his role of Impossible Missions Force agent Ethan Hunt, alongside Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Anil Kapoor and Léa Seydoux. In the film, Hunt and his team race against time to find a nuclear extremist codenamed 'Cobalt' who gains access to Russian nuclear launch codes when a mission by Hunt's team goes wrong, resulting in the bombing of 
Title: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Content:  Despite Mission: Impossible III earning less than its predecessors at the box office, its critical reception was much better than its predecessors and Paramount Pictures was keen on developing a fourth in the series. In August 2009, Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec were hired to write the film's screenplay. Because of other commitments, J. J. Abrams said that it was unlikely for him to return as director but made note that he will produce the film alongside Tom Cruise. By March 2010, director Brad Bird was in talks of directing the film with Cruise returning to star as Ethan Hunt. The film was originally announced with 
Title: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Content: Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, an agent of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) and protagonist of the film. ; Jeremy Renner as William Brandt, the IMF Secretary's aide and an intelligence analyst. ; Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, a new IMF field agent and former IMF technician. ; Paula Patton as Jane Carter, an IMF agent and Hanaway's handler who works with Ethan. ; Michael Nyqvist as Kurt Hendricks, a Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist and codenamed 'Cobalt'. ; Vladimir Mashkov as Anatoly Sidorov, a Russian police officer who is after Ethan. ; Josh Holloway as Trevor Hanaway, an IMF agent murdered by 
Title: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Content:  Kremlin. The IMF is implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to enact "Ghost Protocol", disavowing the organization, leaving Hunt and his team without backup. Released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on December 16, 2011, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film in the series, with $694 million, until it was surpassed by Mission: Impossible – Fallout. It is the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2011 as well as the second-highest-grossing film starring Cruise. It was followed by Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, which was released in July 2015. The film received positive reviews on Metacritic, and Rotten Tomatoes calls it "popcorn entertainment that really works".
Title: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Content:  Ghost Protocol grossed $209.4 million in North America and $485.3 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $694.7 million. It is the second-highest-grossing film worldwide in the Mission: Impossible series, and the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2011. It is also the second-highest-grossing film worldwide starring Cruise, surpassing War of the Worlds from the top spot. It was the franchise's highest-grossing film and Cruise's biggest film at the time of release, before being surpassed by Mission: Impossible – Fallout seven years later. In limited release at 425 locations in North America, it earned $12.8 million over its opening weekend. After five days of limited release, it expanded to 3,448 theaters on its sixth day and reached #1 at the box office with $8.92 million. The film reached the top stop at the box office in its second and third weekends with $29.6 million and $29.4 million, respectively. Though 
Title: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Content:  a bomb destroys much of the Kremlin. Carter and Dunn escape, but Hunt is captured by SVR agent Anatoly Sidorov and charged with destroying the Kremlin. Hunt escapes and meets with the IMF Secretary who is in Moscow with his aide and intelligence analyst, William Brandt. The Secretary, who has been severely reprimanded by Russian authorities, tells Hunt that the President had initiated "Ghost Protocol", disavowing IMF, but secretly orders Hunt to continue to pursue Cobalt. Sidorov's forces catch up to Hunt, and the Secretary is killed. Hunt escapes along with Brandt and together they rendezvous with Carter and Dunn in a secret IMF bunker located in one 
Title: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Content:  In December 2011, Pegg suggested that he and Cruise were interested in returning for a fifth Mission: Impossible film. Paramount was also reportedly interested in fast-tracking a fifth film due to the fourth film's success. Bird had stated that he probably would not return to direct a fifth film, but Tom Cruise had been confirmed to return. It was revealed in August 2013 that Christopher McQuarrie would be the director of Mission: Impossible 5. Principal photography began in February 2014 in London. Paramount Pictures released the film on July 31, 2015. The plot centers around Hunt's IMF team in conflict with "the Syndicate", an international criminal organization first mentioned at the end of Ghost Protocol.
Title: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Content:  had already started the movie. I had to communicate with the entire staff to determine what I could and couldn't change, what sets had been built or struck, what scenes I could or couldn't reshoot. I learned so much about production being right there. ... The script had these fantastic sequences in it but there was a mystery in it that was very complicated. What I did was about clarity. The mystery had to be made simpler. It's like reaching into a sock and pulling it inside out. It's still a sock, still all the same pieces, but all put together in a different order."

Question: Who was the screenwriter for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol?
Answer: Josh Appelbaum.