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Tom Cruise shared a featurette for his 2023 movie Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One (aka M:I 7), which gave a behind-the-scenes look astatine the 'greatest stunt successful cinema history.'
The stunt was a motorcycle leap disconnected a cliff into a basal jump, which was performed by Cruise alternatively of a stuntman.
The 60-year-old histrion — who conscionable jumped retired of a level to convey fans for the occurrence of his movie Top Gun: Maverick — said astatine the opening of the video: 'I've wanted to bash it since I was a small kid.'
Daredevil: Tom Cruise performed the 'greatest stunt successful cinema history' by driving a motorcycle disconnected a cliff and past basal jumping for his 2023 movie Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One (aka M:I 7)
There helium goes: The enactment prima had connected each achromatic with a battalion connected his backmost arsenic helium went astatine apical speed
They planned to bash the stunt connected a cliff successful Norway and built a elephantine ramp for Cruise to thrust the motorcycle disconnected of.
In the video, Cruise said: 'This is acold and distant the astir unsafe happening we've ever attempted.'
To hole for the stunt, the Top Gun histrion enactment unneurotic a radical of experts successful each of the disciplines progressive successful the stunt to marque the full happening happen.
Miles Daisher, the basal jumping coach, remarked connected Cruise's ability: 'You archer him something, and helium conscionable locks it in.
We person assistance off: Cruise was seen connected a harness arsenic helium sailed done the air; the motorcycle was attached to a abstracted cable
In the air: This is however it looks connected film. Cruise practiced by completing implicit 500 skydives and implicit 13,000 motocross jumps
Before the jump: In the film's teaser helium approaches the cliff earlier driving disconnected of it
Lots of nerves: The unit had to enactment retired the champion places to presumption the cameras truthful that the stunt could beryllium captured successful the astir effectual and breathtaking way
'His consciousness of spatial awareness. He is the astir alert idiosyncratic I've ever met.'
In bid to execute the stunt connected camera, respective experts had to enactment retired the champion instrumentality and positioning to usage erstwhile filming truthful that the stunt would beryllium captured successful the champion mode possible.
Christopher McQuarrie, the writer and manager of the film, noted: 'Even 2 years ago, the cameras didn't beryllium that would let america to bash what we are trying to bash today.'
Cruise besides mentioned that helium wanted to truly impact the assemblage and springiness them that thrill.
No stuntman needed: The Mummy histrion performed the existent stunt himself six times disconnected of a cliff successful Norway
Up the ramp: Here helium stood up arsenic a drone filmed the stunt from above
Months of preparation: The Top Gun: Maverick histrion and the unit prepared for the stunt for respective years and acceptable up question seizure instrumentality to way wherever helium would extremity up successful the aerial during the stunt
On the job: Tom and the manager did not look to person a fearfulness of heights arsenic they stood connected the extremity of the ramp
He performed implicit 500 skydives, and implicit 13,000 motocross jumps to beryllium arsenic prepared arsenic imaginable for the existent stunt.
They replicated the ramp they would usage for the existent stunt successful a quarry successful England and filled it with cardboard boxes to drawback the motorcycle aft Cruise drove disconnected the ramp.
McQuarrie talked astir however they built models of the ramp to cipher wherever Cruise would beryllium successful the aerial and what trajectory helium would beryllium on.
He said: 'We person to beryllium capable to consistently foretell wherever Tom volition beryllium successful three-dimensional space.'
Expert successful the making: The radical of experts that Cruise enactment unneurotic helped him signifier capable times truthful that helium could comfortably bash the full happening himself
When Cruise performed the stunt for existent successful Norway, helium rode the motorcycle disconnected of the cliff and past basal jumped successfully six times successful 1 day.
After the suspense-filled jumps, McQuarrie said: 'The lone happening that scares maine much is what we person planned for Mission [Impossible] 8.'
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One is acceptable to merchandise successful theaters connected July 14, 2023.
No fear: The writer and manager of the film, Christopher McQuarrie said that what scares him much than this stunt is what they person planned for the adjacent installment of the Mission Impossible franchise
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