There’s no doubt that Tom Cruise is Hollywood’s last great action hero. At the age of 60, with Top Gun 2: Maverick not only achieved the greatest success of his career but the highest-grossing film of 2022. And, in addition, the respect of the audience that he appreciates more than ever actor does not use doubles for the risky scenes. And now, Paramount Pictures has unveiled the video that shows how a part of Mission Impossible 7, which premiered on July 14, 2023, was filmed.
Under the title “The Biggest Stunt in Cinema History”, the video reveals the behind-the-scenes of one of the film’s key scenes in which Tom Cruise jumps into the void on a motorcycle towards a cliff in Norway.
The nearly 10-minute clip shows all the preparation required, which included for the actor 30 parachute jumps per day, up to 500 jumps in total. And as if that wasn’t enough, the practice of 13 thousand motorcycle jumps and a total of six repetitions of the scene to get the best images using a drone mounted with special cameras and a helicopter.
This video shows how a part of Mission Impossible 7 was filmed:
The actor together with the director Christopher McQuarrie already have the continuation of Dead Reckoning, or Mission Impossible 8, which will be released in July 2024.
Both films suffered several delays both in filming and in deciding when to release them, for reasons known to everyone, and this decision did not go down well with either Cruise or Paramount, who followed the same logic with Top Gun 2: Maverick, already available from December 22 in Paramount Plusafter 1.5 billion dollars of global revenue, although without key markets such as China or Russia.