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Yeah just continue with the Syndicate.
That's kinda like The Syndicate though, if the Syndicate had members with personalities (besides the Bone Doctor) and not faceless dudes.
I'd dig the idea that the Syndicate, now that they're revealed, has gone into splinter cells, with one specific team being opposed to Hunt's team. Make them just as colorful but clearly more amoral than Ethan's team, and make it clear they'll do any job to arrange their own security and peace of mind and you might actually have a good villain.
Part of me would want to see Jonathon Rhys Meyers return as the leader of the opposition, in part to give them a fairly sympathetic but clearly charismatic center figure for the opposing team. Give us some villains who have to be just as tenacious and creative as Hunt's had to be to keep up with him.
Meyers has been fighting his inner demons for a while. In fact, it's hard for him to get gigs now; his Dracula role for NBC had a strict guideline for him to follow, seeing him as a liability to the company.
From this past year:
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According to THR, that is indeed the case.

Justin Kroll
‏@krolljvar
Another thing on MTMP on Ferguson returning to MI6, hearing she has left open her schedule for a MISSION shoot next August
https://***********/krolljvar/status/672856091160547328
Yesssssss.
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I would love for Maggie Q or Paula Patton to return as well. Break up the sausage fest.
. You know, for character development
t:.Mission Accomplished: Rebecca Ferguson First Tom Cruise Leading Lady Doing a Second “M:I”
Confirmed: Rebecca Ferguson is about to make movie history. She’s the first actress to return as Tom Cruise’s leading lady in the “Mission Impossible” series. I am told that Ferguson is signed, sealed and delivered for part 6, to be directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who is also returning from part 5, “Rogue Nation.”
The Stockholm born Ferguson made a huge impression as Ilsa in “Rogue Nation,” more than her predecessors like Paula Patton, Thandie Newton, or Michelle Monaghan. None of them made to another installment of the franchise, and their characters were never mentioned again.
But as Ilsa, Ferguson came across as a modern day Lauren Bacall crossed with Ingrid Bergman. When she returns to “MI,” Ferguson will have had a bunch of new releases including the hotly anticipated “Girl on the Train,” as well as “Florence Foster Jenkins” with Meryl Streep, and “The Snowman” with Michael Fassbender.
