Denlinger is a supporting antagonist in the 2023 spy action film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh installment of the Mission: Impossible film series.
He is the corrupt US Director of National Intelligence and an apparent ally of former IMF director Eugene Kittridge. Sometime prior to the film's events, however, Denlinger was one of the designers of The Entity, an AI program meant to target Russia before going rogue.