Renner's absence in Mission: Impossible -- Fallout was due to scheduling conflicts with the MCU, not the filmmakers' lack of desire to bring him back. With Tom Cruise potentially exiting the franchise after one more film, Jeremy Renner could be the new lead for future Mission: Impossible movies.
Lest anyone think that Brandt has gone the way of Jane, Zhen Lei (Maggie Q), or Declan Gormley (Johnathan Rhys Meyers), McQuarrie has assured viewers that only scheduling conflicts kept Renner from appearing in the sixth Mission: Impossible movie.
Will Jeremy Renner return in Mission: Impossible 7?
There is seemingly no plan to involve Jeremy Renner going forward, as he is not among the star-studded cast confirmed for Mission: Impossible 7. Brandt's absence from Fallout was noticeable, though, and the mystery of what happened to him will only continue if he's also left out of Mission: Impossible 7 and its sequel.
After his team failed to do this and Julia was allegedly killed, Brandt asked to be removed from field duty, due to not wanting to go through a life-or-death situation again. Brandt then became Chief Analyst to the Secretary of the IMF. He became a field agent again after a new mission with Ethan Hunt and his team.
Jeremy Renner's Mission: Impossible character, Agent William Brandt quickly disappeared after the events of Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation. Renner's absence in Mission: Impossible -- Fallout was due to scheduling conflicts with the MCU, not the filmmakers' lack of desire to bring him back.
The reason for that was practical, in that Renner wasn't available for filming due to commitments to the MCU (ironically, he wasn't actually filming anything for Marvel during the Fallout shoot; it's simply that Marvel essentially put him on call for that entire period).
Despite the fact that the last movie hinted at her return for the follow-up, it turns out she won't be in the sequel. Why? It turns out that scheduling is to blame.
Peter Lupus had been making noise about his salary and his role on the show, so Paramount decided to kill two birds with one stone by gradually phasing out the character of Willy Armitage and bringing in another younger actor, 25-year old Sam Elliott, as Doug Robert to replace him.
Mission Impossible 8 cast: Who's coming back in Mission Impossible 8? Tom Cruise will, of course, be back as Ethan Hunt, but Mission: Impossible 7 wasn't without its casualties.
“I hope to keep making Mission: Impossible films until I'm his age.” Christopher McQuarrie, who directed Dead Reckoning, Rogue Nation and Fallout, and is helming Mission: Impossible 8 as well, has also said that the seventh and eighth films aren't the end of the franchise.
Julia, now safe, is kept a secret by Ethan, who has had to keep his distance from her since. When Ethan and his team visit Seattle after defeating Cobalt, Ethan absolves Brandt of guilt for Julia's death by assuring him that she did not actually get killed in Croatia.
… Nimoy joined the cast of Mission: Impossible for two seasons (1969–71) as Paris, an undercover operative and former magician, and later lent his voice to an animated version of Star Trek (1973–74). In 1978 he was cast in a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
The actor was trying to help his nephew out of the snow near his home in Lake Tahoe when the Sno-Cat crushed him. His injuries included eight ribs broken in 14 places, right knee and ankle broken, left leg tibia broken, left ankle broken, right clavicle broken, right shoulder broken and more.
What happened to Jane Carter in Mission: Impossible?
There are a number of missing Mission: Impossible characters whose whereabouts remain unknown, one of whom is Jane. The IMF agent only appeared in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol but was valuable member of the team who was extra-motivated to capture Kurt Hendricks after the villain killed her partner.
Will Henry Cavill return in Mission: Impossible 8?
It really sounds like Henry Cavill's August Walker is returning in Mission: Impossible 8 now. The Mission: Impossible franchise is barreling towards its potential conclusion, which has meant bringing back several characters from the past. Director Christopher McQuarrie teased that there is another surprise in store.
Hoult revealed he was cast in Mission Impossible 7 after a personal phone call from Cruise. But a scheduling conflict with his series The Great prevented him from taking the role. It was the third high-profile gig he missed out on a row, he told The Guardian in an interview to promote his latest film, Renfield.
Peter Graves never left the Mission: Impossible series. The series just ended. Speaking of the film, Graves refused to join the cast as his iconic role of Jim Phelps was the villain of the film.
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Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said last month that he won't be asking Downey Jr. to return to the MCU as to preserve Tony Stark's emotional ending (“We all worked very hard for many years to get to that, and we would never want to magically undo it in any way,” he said), but that hasn't stopped rumors from ...
Jeremy Renner is continuing on his healing journey. ET's Kevin Frazier spoke to Renner just over a year after his near-fatal snow plow accident, and the 53-year-old actor revealed that he's feeling "strong." "[I'm doing] probably 90 percent of all the things I needed to be doing...
Jeremy Renner made his franchise debut as William Brandt in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, initially as a bit of an antagonist to Hunt. However, he was an IMF agent by the end of that film, and he was fully part of the team in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.
