Tom Cruise Announces Sixth ‘Mission: Impossible’

Tom Cruise will continue to accept the “Mission”!

The actor announced plans for a sixth installment in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise.

“We’re starting to work on it now. We’ll probably start shooting it next summer,” the actor told Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.”

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Tom latest, “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,” opens this week. The franchise debuted in 1996 and sequels followed in 2000, 2006 and 2011.

Access recently spoke with Tom about working on “Rogue Nation,” which our Scott “Movie” Mantz calls “the best ‘Mission’ yet.”

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Tom opened up about shooting the movie’s intense action sequences including a pivotal scene in which spy Ethan Hunt is left clinging to the side of an airplane as it takes off.

“It was intense,” the star said, assuring that all the proper safety precautions were in place.

“I wore a vest and had one wire that kept me to the side of the plane so I wouldn’t fly off as we were going down the runway,” he explained. “We did it eight times… we wanted to get it right.”

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Adding, “The first time we were going down the runway … I told the crew, I said, ‘Look. If I look terrified, don’t stop. Don’t stop for anything.’ We’re gonna keep going, because I’m acting. No matter what you see me do.’ We had certain hand signals I could give if I was really in trouble.”

Tom admitted that hanging from a jumbo jet mid-air is every bit as harrowing as it looks.

“When we hit it I was like, ‘Holy s**t!” Tom laughed. “Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea.”

“Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” lands in theaters nationwide on July 31.

— Jesse Spero

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