Regisseur J.J. Abrams meldt dat zowel Scarlett Johansson als Carrie-Anne Moss niet meer te zien zullen zijn in de derde Mission: Impossible film. Reden voor het vertrek is dat het hele script voor de film wordt herschreven.

[eng]“The script was rewritten. I'm a huge fan of each actor that they cast originally, but to have kept the actors when we are reinventing the story would have been an odd process, to say, ‘Write a script with these people in mind for characters that haven’t been written.’ It just felt like we had to start over with a clean slate.”[/eng]