Across the first seven Mission: Impossible movies, the cast has remained shockingly fluid.
While other blockbuster franchises bend over backward to incorporate every character in every installment no matter what, the Mission: Impossible features have often been content to only bring back series mainstay Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) for multiple outings.
While the fourth entry, Ghost Protocol, saw characters like Simon Pegg’s Benji emerging as recurring fixtures of this series, other individuals seemingly critical to these later movies like Jeremy Renner’s William Brandt have abruptly dropped off the radar without any explanation.
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