MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 6 Will Take Ethan Hunt on an Emotional Journey and Focus on Who He Is
Director Christopher McQuarrie is currently preparing to shoot Mission: Impossible 6 and up until this point, we haven't really known what the story will hold. In an interview with Empire, the director opens up about what he's looking to do with the character this time around, and he plans on taking it in a slightly different direction.
McQuarrie explains that he wants to focus on the character Ethan Hunt and who he is. He tells them, "It’s a very different Ethan Hunt, I can promise you that." He explains:
"I’ve seen five of these movies and I don’t know who Ethan Hunt is. One movie sort of dealt with his personal life; the other movies are about people speculating what’s really going on in Ethan’s head. I want to know who Ethan is in this movie, I want an emotional journey for this character, and Tom really embraced it. I don’t want to string together a bunch of action scenes, I want to actually deal with character. So I put Ethan in a bunch of complicated moral quandaries, and I’m trying to find ways to connect them – and then, ironically, the way to connect them was through giant action scenes."
I like that this next film will actually delve into who this character is and what's really going on inside his head. That should bring a completely fresh vibe to the franchise. As for the action, you can't have a Mission: Impossible movie without it! McQuarrie says he even has one sequence already in mind.
“I may have found something today. I came to Tom with a picture of something and Tom looked at it and said, ‘That’s awesome! I want to fall off of that!’ It’s like, OK, I can see it on a poster, and I can see Tom falling off of it.”
So you can expect Tom Cruise to take an impressive fall off something. McQuarrie then says that one of the other big differences in the film is that it won't start off with a big elaborate action scene:
“It starts in a very unconventional way. It does not start with action. That was the hardest pitch of this movie.”
I'm a big fan of the Mission: Impossible franchise, and I was happy to hear that McQuarrie and Cruise would be teaming up for another Ethan Hunt adventure. I like what his focus will be.
Mission: Impossible 6 starts production in April and will hit theaters on July 27, 2018.