McQuarrie teases a return for Cavill’s Mission: Impossible villain

Whether you want to call him Mr Moustache or Mr Magic Pockets, it sounds like Henry Cavill’s Missions: Impossible villain, August Walker, could make a return to the franchise. Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re probably saying, huh? How? Wasn’t he impaled in the face with a blade at the end of the movie? Well, yes, but when has that ever stopped a great character from coming back from the dead?

Mission: Impossible – Fallout director recently spoke with The Hollywood Reporter for an in-depth expose on Cavill’s career thus far, and it was during their talk that he revealed Walker could rise from the ashes for Mission: Impossible 8.

“I’m in the process of rewriting Mission: 8 right now, this afternoon I could turn a page and any actor from the past could come back,” McQuarrie said about the possibility of resurrecting Cavill’s character. “There is no such thing as death in movies, only unavailability.”

To be clear, Walker was killed off in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, a move that fans of the franchise have given McQuarrie endless grief about since the film’s release. I suppose that’s what happens when you introduce a character as formidable as Walker – especially when you film a scene as brutal as the one that involves Cavill, Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt, and stuntman Liang Yang. “It’s a sequence that other actors, when learning the level of commitment required, simply opted out of,” McQuarrie says.

Wow! Did I miss the memo that proclaimed today to be Henry Cavill Day? Cavill has been all over the news today with word of him wanting to play Superman again, and the announcement of a start date for Chad Stahelski’s Highlander reboot. The entertainment arena can’t seem to get enough of this guy, though it’s not difficult to understand why.

What do you think about the possibility of Henry Cavill’s Mission: Impossible villain returning to the franchise? Do you think he’ll wear a mask to cover the scars left by that blade? Let us know in the comments section below.

Mission: Impossible 7 features the return of Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust, Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, Vanessa Kirby as the White Widow, Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge, as well as franchise newcomers Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, and more. Mission: Impossible 7 is currently slated to hit cinemas on September 30, 2022.