The Final Reckoning is seemingly the end of Ethan Hunt’s story in the Mission: Impossible franchise, but it doesn’t have to close the whole series.

The filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie discusses major character deaths, the end (or is it?) of an action-movie franchise and what comes next.

Before and after Ethan Hunt arrives on the USS Ohio, the vessel is engaged in a hunt for a rather infamous submarine that’s part of a larger maneuver. As the world is manipulated by The Entity, the lines between peace and war were already blurred enough, and then Ethan Hunt went to supposedly “poke the bear.”