Maybe Nicholas Hoult will be the one to finally kill Tom Cruise in the next Mission: Impossible?
A lot of very competent bad guys have tried and failed to kill Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt over the course of the Mission: Impossible series, most recently Sean Harris’ Solomon Lane, Henry Cavill’s evil mustache, and that ledge that destroyed Cruise’s ankle, but maybe Nicholas Hoult will be able to succeed where those bad guys failed? According to Variety, he’ll be playing the villain in director Christopher McQuarrie’s next Mission: Impossible movie, with McQuarrie announcing the news on Instagram. Nobody explicitly said he’s going to be the villain, but the Instagram post involved McQuarrie asking Hoult if he wanted to “raise a little hell” with Hoult responding “Love to, though why stop at a little?” which either means they’re about to have a truly epic Boys Night or Hoult is playing a M:I bad guy. Or maybe both?