Interview:
Mark Lambert Bristol,
storyboard artist,
"Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One'
![]() Raised in Austin, Mark Lambert Bristol is a sought-after storyboard artist who has worked on such locally and Texas shot films and TV series as Dazed & Confused, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, Secondhand Lions, How to Eat Fried Worms, Stop-Loss, Bandslam, My All-American, RWBY, The Leftovers, and Fear the Walking Dead as well as Memento, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 2017’s The Mummy, and Lucy in the Sky. He has served as a storyboard artist for writer/director Christopher McQuarrie’s The Way of the Gun, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, which is now in theaters. He also storyboarded The Thin Red Line and Tree of Life for Austin-based director Terrence Malick; The Alamo, Saving Mr. Banks, The Founder, The Highwaymen, and Mr. Harrigan’s Phone for Texas native John Lee Hancock; and The Good Old Boys, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and The Homesman for actor/director Tommy Lee Jones. Upcoming projects include Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 2, Tron: Ares, and director Terrence Malick’s The Way of the Wind as well as an episode of the upcoming fifth season of Fargo. Mark Lambert Bristol also directed the upcoming Texas oil industry dramedy Chocolate Lizards, the 1999 David Carradine thriller Natural Selection, and an episode of the Rooster Teeth live-action series Day One. A selection of Mark Lambert Bristol's concept art and storyboards for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is now available to view at his website. Selection of Bristol's work for Dazed & Confused and The Thin Red Line can be seen as part of The Harry Ransom Center’s “Drawing the Motion Picture: Production Art and Storyboards,” which closes July 16.
Aired: July 12, 2023. Web sites: http://markbristol.squarespace.com/concept-and-storyboard-art/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-1/ https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2023/drawing-the-motion-picture/ https://www.missionimpossible.com/ https://www.facebook.com/MissionImpossible |
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