Jeremy Renner was offered this explosive cameo in Mission Impossible Fallout, turned it down for Avengers

Jeremy Renner fans are having a difficult 2018. Not only was the Oscar nominee missing from Avengers: Infinity War, he was also not a part of Mission: Impossible - Fallout. Director Christopher McQuarrie has now revealed that he had offered Renner a rather stunning cameo, only for Renner to pass.

In an appearance on the Empire podcast, McQuarrie said, “So I said to Renner, ‘Hey listen, I have this idea for an opening sequence where you sacrifice yourself to save the team, and that the mission-gone-wrong not only involves losing the plutonium, but involves the death of a team member.’ And Jeremy was like, ‘Thanks, but no thanks’. He was smart not to take the short paycheck for three days of work and getting blown up.”

McQuarrie said that he had always intented for the film to begin and end with death. In the movie, Luther Stickel is the one who almost dies in the opening scene, but Ethan Hunt and a bullet proof vest come to his rescue.

“I had this whole idea that the movie would start with the death of a team member,” McQuarrie said. “And of course the first team member that’s always the first guy we talk about killing is Luther. Luther died in the first movie, and he quite famously said to Tom Cruise, ‘Hey man, how come the brother’s always gotta die?’ And Tom said, ‘You’re right.’ He was like, ‘Why do I gotta be the bad guy?’ And they made Luther nefarious and then suddenly a good guy, and six movies later it was the smartest question anybody’s ever asked Tom Cruise. So I said to Jeremy, look we can’t kill Ving, it’s never going to work. No matter how many movies into it, it’s always going to be the same thing. You killed the black guy. And we didn’t think the movie could recover if you killed Benji.”

Renner’s unavailability can be blamed on the long production schedule of the third and fourth Avengers movies. Renner’s character, Hawkeye, is expected to make a return in the fourth Avengers movie, due out in May, 2019.

Renner plays Brandt in the Mission: Impossible films, which he has been a part of since the fourth movie, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. The sixth Mission: Impossible film made over ₹50 crore in its opening weekend in India, and has received the best reviews of the series.

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