Tom Cruise Jumps Off A Mountain In Dangerous Speedflying Stunt For New ‘Mission Impossible’: Watch

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Tom Cruise has go conscionable arsenic celebrated for his acting arsenic for performing his ain stunts successful the Mission Impossible franchise. And with each caller installment of the enactment spy series, the Oscar-nominated prima has to outdo himself! Such is the lawsuit for the seventh movie called Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, which hits theaters connected July 12. In it, Tom tackles a “speedflying” stunt, wherever the histrion glides down mountainsides connected a small, wing-like canopy, a athletics Popular Mechanics dubbed arsenic a “bit similar paragliding” but often truthful unsafe that “very fewer radical successful the satellite adjacent attempt” it.

“With Tom, determination are nary limits,” the movie’s director, Christopher McQuarrie, said successful a video of the stunt released by Paramount Pictures connected Thursday, June 29. “So we’ve go a small much adventurous each time.” He continued, “One of the things that is peculiarly unsafe astir speedflying is the adjacent proximity to the crushed that you’re flying and the different is the hazard that the canopy tin collapse.” As if we weren’t frightened capable for Tom, Christopher added, “It’s precise unpredictable.”

In the video, fans get an intimate look astatine Tom studying the speedflying stunt, practicing it, talking it implicit with accumulation and yet making immoderate pugnacious decisions astir it. At 1 constituent successful the jaw-dropping mini doc, the Risky Business vet calls disconnected a signifier tally due to the fact that of the weather. “It’s excessively dangerous,” Tom gravely said to his chap moviemakers.

Tom Cruise attempts “speedflying” successful the caller ‘Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1.’ (Paramount Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection)

As HollywoodLife antecedently reported, Tom has spent rather immoderate clip implicit the past fewer years grooming for this peculiar stunt. The grooming included “mastering antithetic techniques, terrains, and upwind conditions that could perchance stymie the stunt,” according to Popular Mechanics. And too the speedflying, Tom also invested successful flying lessons to deftly grip a Boeing Stearman level for immoderate enactment scenes.

Perhaps Tom felt the “need for speed” aft the smashing occurrence of Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to 1986’s smash hit Top Gun. The movie, which premiered successful May 2022, had Tom reprising his iconic relation of Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, with Val Kilmer returning arsenic Commander Tom “Iceman” Kazansky. The movie, which had a container bureau gross of astir $1.5 cardinal worldwide, besides starred Miles Teller, Jon Hamm, and Jennifer Connelly.

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