Tom Cruises karakter, Ethan Hunt, er selve hjertet af Mission Impossible-filmserien, og de plejer som regel at høste flotte anmeldelser, og tjene masser af penge rundt omkring i verden. Men efter de to næste film, Mission Impossible 7 og 8, der har et sammenhængende plot, så vil Cruise eftersigende takke af som Hunt.
En insider har fortalt Variety, at de næste to film i serien skal fungere som et "sendoff" for Ethan Hunt, som har været seriens ansigt siden 1996.
"The plan is for the seventh and eighth films to serve as a sendoff for Cruise's Ethan Hunt character — a "culmination" of the entire series, as one insider described it — which has also upped the pressure on the star and McQuarrie to deliver a slam-bang farewell to the super spy. The two films were originally scheduled to shoot concurrently, but that plan was abandoned. The eighth film is about to go into production in South Africa."
Præcis hvordan serien skal fortsætte efter Cruise, hvis overhovedet, er endnu ukendt.
