Mission: Impossible 7 Will Have Maybe the Biggest Movie Stunt Ever

Much just like the Fast and Furious films, the Mission: Impossible films are all the time elevating the bar. First Tom Cruise climbs up the Burj Khalifa, then hangs off the facet of an airplane, then dives out of an airplane greater than must be humanly attainable. And that development will proceed with Mission: Impossible 7, presently scheduled for launch May 27, 2022.

During Paramount’s presentation at CinemaCon 2021, exhibitors had been handled to a 10-minute video detailing Cruise’s newest stunt. This one will see him drive a motorbike off an precise cliff, soar off the bike in mid-air, freefall just a few seconds, after which parachute to the underside of an enormous gorge. And, in fact, it’s really Tom Cruise doing this. Not a stunt individual. So he needed to apply and practice lots to have the ability to pull if off.

Over the course of a yr, Cruise accomplished about 500 skydives, which typically included 30 in at some point, in addition to 13,000 motocross jumps on a specifically constructed observe. All of this was achieved to ensure Cruise was a whole skilled at not simply base leaping and parachuting however motocross too. He’d have to be all of these issues to drag off the stunt on the day.

But simply doing the stunt isn’t sufficient. Director Christopher McQuarrie and his group wanted to seize it. So, as Cruise was coaching, McQuarrie and his group had been testing new cameras, lenses, and model new applied sciences and drones to ensure they’d be capable to seize the stunt as intently as attainable. (You don’t have Tom Cruise practice for a complete yr if audiences aren’t going to truly be capable to see him do the stunt on display screen.) McQuarrie’s group additionally constructed a mannequin of the ramp that will finally be utilized in a quarry and had Cruise run simulations with a particular GPS chip. This manner they may calculate and predict all of the completely different trajectories the place Cruise would possibly exit the bike, the place the bike would land, the whole lot.

Meanwhile, the precise ramp needed to be inbuilt Norway, in a spot so distant each single piece needed to be stream in by helicopter. Months and months of development and preparation all led as much as Day One of filming Mission: Impossible 7, which is once they’d knock the movie’s greatest stunt out of the way in which instantly. Here’s a picture of that ramp.

And on that day—as you’ll be able to think about, because you haven’t seen any information tales in regards to the demise of one in all cinema’s greatest stars—all of the coaching and preparation paid off. Cruise pulled off the stunt not one, not two, however six instances, every time making an attempt to carry onto the bike extra, pull his parachute a little bit later, something to make it extra dramatic and thrilling.

In the top, McQuarrie mentioned the one factor scarier than performing what his group deemed the most important stunt in movie historical past, what what that they had deliberate for Mission: Impossible 8.

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