20 Declassified Facts About The Mission: Impossible Series
16. In M:I4, Brad Bird Almost Blows Up Pixar
In the scene where a ballistic missile heads for San Francisco, almost precipitating a nuclear war, we see it heading for the Emeryville area before it's disarmed. Emeryville is a small city on the edge of the San Francisco Bay, population around 11,000, notable above all else as the home of Pixar Animation Studios. Brad Bird, who directed Ghost Protocol, also directed Ratatouille and The Incredibles for Pixar.
Pixar films all include the code "A113" somewhere, a reference to a classroom at the California Institute of the Arts. Ghost Protocol features it on a weaponized "class ring," a license plate and an extraction code. And when Ethan deactivates that missile, it has 1.13 seconds before exploding.