An earlier article said his character would be seen in flashbacks as he was supposedly a CIA agent who was killed in an explosion. If they have secured him as a headliner as it sounds, then I would hope they would get their money's worth out of him and not just a Crusoe cruise by sighting now and then. Considering how they don't seem to have any original ideas in Hollyweird anymore, I wouldn't put it past them to make his character a bit Trevelyan-esque and we find out somewhere down the lline that he's actually still alive.