20 Things You Didn't Know About Mission Impossible 2

14. Westworld Prequel

Mission Impossible 2 Tom Cruise
HBO

Some of you may have worked this out by now but MI2 somewhat serves as a Westworld prequel/reunion as it stars two of its biggest actors, Thandie Newton and Anthony Hopkins.

Interestingly Hopkins is uncredited for the film and the characters the two play don't actually meet. That being said if you want to make a tenuous connection between MI2 and the HBO series, you could say that in both stories Hopkins is playing the head of an organisation secretly and rather creepily manipulating Newton through other people.

What goes around comes around I guess?

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