Christopher McQuarrie's original idea for the opening plutonium exchange sequence was to have one of Ethan's team members killed in action. He initially considered Luther but decided against it admitting that it would not work. Benji was also considered but McQuarrie feared the film will not recover well if he is to be killed off. However, when McQuarrie pitched the idea of William Brandt shot to Jeremy Renner, he turned down saying "he didn't want to take a paycheck for three days and getting blown up", thus having Brandt written out of the script. As an in-cheek joke related to this, Luther and Benji both separately said that "they should have been killed" right after the shootout.

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