Tom Cruise attempts cinema’s biggest stunt in Mission: Impossible 7 featurette - Digital Trends

Tom Cruise thanked fans yesterday for their enactment of Top Gun: Maverick after jumping retired of a level and completing a solo freefall dive. Yet, that wasn’t the craziest happening captured connected camera arsenic Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (also known as Mission: Impossible 7 or M:I 7) released a behind-the-scenes look astatine the “biggest stunt successful cinema history.”

The 9-minute video brings the assemblage backmost to the archetypal time of shooting M:I 7 in September 2020 erstwhile Cruise prepared to leap a motorcycle disconnected a cliff, implicit a basal jump, and parachute to safety. While the stunt seems retired of this world, Cruise calmly says that he’s wanted to bash this since helium was a “little kid.”

For a stunt that took seconds to complete, it took good implicit a twelvemonth of mentation and training. Cruise had to cleanable basal jumping, skydiving, canopy control, and motocross earlier helium could adjacent signifier the jump. Cruise completed implicit 500 skydives and 13,000 motocross jumps successful mentation for the stunt. Countless hours of signifier connected a exemplary ramp were needed to cipher the velocity and angles of Cruise’s leap truthful writer/director Christopher McQuarrie knew wherever to enactment each camera. When it came clip to implicit the stunt successful Norway, successful existent Tom Cruise fashion, helium did it not once, but six times.

Dead Reckoning Part One volition beryllium the seventh installment successful the Mission: Impossible film franchise. Alongside Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, and Henry Czerny volition reprise their roles from the erstwhile M:I films.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One hits theaters connected July 14, 2023. 

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