During a recent interview on an episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie spoke about how they settled on the choice not to have Ilsa appear in the film:"It's the cost versus benefit.

Tying into Benji’s “God/Anti-God” talk from Mission: Impossible III, these two men would have been a more fitting threat than the still mysterious Gabriel (Esai Morales) - a man who’d rather die in a sick mid-air action sequence than give us his backstory.

Tom Cruise has been leading the Impossible Mission Force, but that chapter is coming to a close this week with Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. There may be Mission: Impossible movies in the future,

Exclusive: Hayley Atwell talks what Grace and Mission: Impossible mean to her, and in return what she meant to Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie.