Cruise and Pegg returned from M:I 3 and were joined by newcomers Jeremy Renner and Paula Patton. Box Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) The new cast members added to Dead Reckoning He is inportant, because he helped to convice US president that IMF is important and moreover, he would be a target in Fallout, because he helped to arrest Lane, so there is no sense not having any mention of him. Defiant_Bluebird3302 • 2 yr. ago. Her addition to the cast in Mission: Impossible - Fallout was supposed to carry over to Mission: Impossible 7, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeremy Renner (William Brandt) However, one person who won’t be participating in the sixth cinematic Mission: Impossible outing is Jeremy Renner, who played William Brandt in Ghost Protocol and Rogue Nation Explaining why Renner isn’t appearing in Fallout, director Christopher McQuarrie attributed the actor’s absence to poor timing 6 Solomon Lane. Sean Harris made his debut in Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation as Solomon Lane, one of the most terrifying action movie villains in recent history. Solomon Lane is obsessed with fashioning a new world order by orchestrating terrorist events that are meant to bring about the fall of the world's governments. 1 Ethan Hunt Will Die. The biggest surprise that Dead Reckoning Part Two could give to its audiences would be the death of protagonist Ethan Hunt. It would be an incredibly bold and drastic way to bring this franchise to a close, but it would effectively shut the door on Tom Cruise’s involvement in Mission: Impossible for good and really mark Mission: Impossible - Fallout director Christopher McQuarrie has explained why Jeremy Renner missed out on being in the latest installment of the action franchise. The sixth movie in the venerable series based on the '60s TV show starring Martin Landau, Fallout sees the return of Tom Cruise as death-defying super-spy Ethan Hunt . Jeremy Renner in Mission Impossible. Jeremy Renner has been a staple of the Mission: Impossible film franchise since joining the cast as William Brandt in 2011’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Renner went on to reprise his role as Brandt in 2015’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. JnjlGRP.