“MI6” begins production

“Light the fuse,” tweeted “Mission: Impossible 6” director Christopher McQuarrie, announcing the start of production for the Tom Cruise-starring action flick. The tweet was accompanied with an image of a clapboard from set.

Paramount's “Mission: Impossible 6” is the follow-up to 2015's “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” and sees the return of Cruise as Ethan Hunt. Plot details have been kept under wraps, but the film co-stars Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust, Henry Cavill, Vanessa Kirky and Alec Baldwin.

McQuarrie has written and directed two other Cruise features — “Rogue Nation” and “Jack Reacher”, and also wrote “Edge Of Tomorrow” and “Valkyrie”.

The filmmaker, who also wrote the script, is the first repeat director in the film series' two-decade history. He'll be producing alongside Cruise, Don Granger, JJ Abrams and Skydance Production's David Ellison and Dana Goldberg.

“Mission: Impossible 6” is scheduled for release July 27, 2018.