Mission: Impossible 8director Christopher McQuarrie has hinted at a possible resurrection forHenry Cavill’sMission: Impossible - Falloutvillain, August Walker AKA John Lark (and his glorious moustache), in the upcoming action movie sequel. Despite Cavill’s burly CIA agent being seemingly very, very dead come the movie’s end, McQuarrie has now stated that there is “no such thing as death” in theMission: Impossiblemovies, leaving the door ajar for Walker to, well, walk back into the franchise.
“I’m in the process of rewriting [Mission: Impossible 8] right now, this afternoon I could turn a page and any actor from the past could come back. There is no such thing as death in movies, only unavailability.”
BeginningMission: Impossible - Falloutas an ally to Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt,Henry Cavill’s Agent Walkeris later revealed to be the extremist known as John Lark, setting the pair on a collision course. During the movie’s heart-racing finale, the two men do battle, which results in half of Cavill’s Hollywood handsome face being disfigured, and ultimately ends with them fighting on a cliff, with Hunt getting the upper hand and killing Walker by pulling the rope of a downed helicopter’s cargo hook, which crashes into Walker’s face (make no mistake, Cavill’s face take a real battering), causing Walker and the helicopter to fall off the cliff and plummet to the ground below.
Cavill does such a good job in the villainous role that fans of theMission: Impossibleseries have been irked ever since that the character was killed off. No doubt many will be excited to hear that there is a possibility of Walker being revived somehow forMission: Impossible 8, but after such a seemingly definitive death, Christopher McQuarrie will have his work cut out getting around the hook-to-the-face fatality. Did the moustache survive such an onslaught? Only time will tell.
Before tacklingMission: Impossible 8however, audiences are still awaiting the arrival ofMission: Impossible 7. While plot details are being kept under wraps, and would no doubt self-destruct should you ever be privy to them, we do know that Christopher McQuarrie will once again write and direct the movie. McQuarrie has previously teased the theme that will run through not just sequel number 7, but the next two installments in the series, revealing that bothMission: Impossible 7andMission: Impossible 8will bring Ethan Hunt’s story to an end, while also teasing that the sequels will take the intrepid secret agentback to the beginning, as well as provide a much more emotional journey for the seemingly indestructible action hero.
The movie will see the return of several familiar faces, including Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, and Vanessa Kirby while introducing plenty of new faces played by Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Esai Morales, Rob Delaney, Charles Parnell, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss, and Cary Elwes.Mission: Impossible 7will also see the return of Henry Czerny, who will reprise the role of Eugene Kittridge, the former director of the IMF last seen in the very firstMission: Impossibleouting.
Mission: Impossible 7is scheduled for release in the United States on July 06, 2025 by Paramount Pictures, followed by a streaming release onParamount+in November 2022.Mission: Impossible 8meanwhile is scheduled for a July 15, 2025 release. This comes to us courtesy ofThe Hollywood Reporter.
