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Henry Czerny returning as Kittridge in Mission: Impossible 7 and 8

February 2nd, 2020 by Marc Comments

With the last Mission: Impossible movie bringing in the amazing Vanessa Kirby as the White Widow, the daughter of Max, Vanessa Redgrave’s character from the first Mission: Impossible movie, it looks like there’s another deep connection to the franchise’s beginnings.

The new movies, currently called simply Mission: Impossible 7 and 8, will, according to director Christopher McQuarrie, bring back M:I agency director Eugene Kittridge played by Henry Czerny. He’s the one who Cruise’s Ethan Hunt told “You’ve never seen me upset”.

The trailer for the first movie – almost 25 years old now – is well worth a watch to remind just how damned good it is in case you’ve forgotten.

Anyway, McQuarrie tweeted (below) and image of Czerny with the message: There is no escaping the past…#MI7MI8

To my knowledge it was never revealed what became of Kittridge after the first movie, so I guess we’ll find out soon enough.

I love that McQuarrie is bringing the whole series together in his movies and I hope it can be as good as the most recent outings because this is one series that does get better and better.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’s Pom Klementieff and Captain America’s Hayley Atwell have also joined the cast with Shea Whigham and Nicholas Hoult joining returning cast members Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson and Simon Pegg. Ving Rhames is also expected to return.

But at this stage, we’d not rule out anyone returning.

Mission: Impossible 7 is set for release on July 23rd, 2021 on the franchise’s 25th anniversary on the big screen and Mission: Impossible 8 will arrive on August 5th, 2022.

Any fans in the house? I want to hear your thoughts…

Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….