Mission: Impossible 6 begins filming, includes a sequence it took Cruise a year to train for

Light the fuse...

That is how writer/director Christopher McQuarrie took to Twitter to officially announce that the sixth movie in the Mission: Impossible franchise had just begun filming.

Light the fuse... (photo @rdhardy) pic.twitter.com/kidurRcjpi

— ChristopherMcQuarrie (@chrismcquarrie) April 8, 2017

The globe-trotting franchise has kicked off in Paris this time around, with McQuarrie returning to the director's chair after the success of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. McQuarrie is the first director to return for a second movie in the series, with the first four directed by Brian DePalma, John Woo, J.J. Abrams and Brad Bird, respectively. Also returning from Rogue Nation are love interest/antagonist agent Rebecca Ferguson and the new head of the IMF Alec Baldwin, while newbies to the cast include Vanessa Kirby (she played Princess Margaret in Netflix's The Crown) and Superman himself, Henry Cavill. On top of all of that, Collider spoke to one of the movie's producers David Ellison, who could barely contain himself when talking about a particular scene planned out for the new movie: “We’re thrilled. Chris is back, obviously, writing and directing after Rogue Nation. We could not be more excited about the character Henry Cavill’s going to play. And I will say after the Burj [Khalifa] we thought it was going to be impossible to top that stunt, and then Tom did the A400M for the plane. What Tom is doing in this movie I believe will top anything that’s come before. It is absolutely unbelievable—he’s been training for a year. It is going to be, I believe, the most impressive and unbelievable thing that Tom Cruise has done in a movie, and he has been working on it since right after Rogue Nation came out. It’s gonna be mind-blowing.” Hanging outside of the world's tallest building, hanging off the outside of a plane, hanging from the ceiling from a rope without touching the ground... Cruise has been through the gauntlet for the M:I movies so far, and it sounds like he's pushed it to the limits this time. We can't wait, but unfortunately we'll have to, at least until 27 July 2018.