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If there’s one thing that Paramount Skydance

CEO David Ellison knows well, it’s an impossible mission.

Ellison, producer of five of the “Mission: Impossible” films, has been trying to buy Warner Bros. Discovery

for nearly six months. In September, he sent an initial, unsolicited offer to WBD, prompting the rival media company to explore a sale process that resulted in an agreement with Netflix