Several characters who have teamed up with Ethan Hunt in the past do not appear in the recently released Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.

I needn't have worried: Ethan Hunt lives to fight another day in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. He defeats Gabriel in a mid-air dogfight, and puts the poison pill in the Entity's podkova, allowing it to be trapped in Luther's ingenious 5D data drive.

Christopher McQuarrie has revealed the extent to which the eighth (and possibly final) Mission: Impossible film changed during the editing process — namely a lot.