After a few delays, the next movie in the Mission: Impossible series starts production this spring. Now director Christopher McQuarrie has spoken about Mission: Impossible 6 and how it will differ from its predecessors.In a new interview with Empire, McQuarrie revealed that M:I 6 will break with tradition by not opening with a big action sequence. `It starts in a very unconventional way,` he said. `It does not start with action. That was the hardest pitch of this movie.`McQuarrie went on to explain that the movie will involve an `emotional journey` for Ethan Hunt, played by Tom Cruise. `I`ve seen five of these movies and I don`t know who Ethan Hunt is,` he said. `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.`M:I 6 was due to start filming last year, but a pay dispute between Cruise and the studio led to pre-production being paused while negotiations took place. It now kicks off in April.The last movie in the series, 2015`s Rogue Nation, was also directed by McQuarrie and made $682 million at the worldwide box office. Mission: Impossible 6 arrives in theaters on July 27, 2018.
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