Tom Cruise dangles from an airplane in a newMission: Impossible – The Final Reckoningbehind-the-scenes video. Featuring Christopher McQuarrie back in the director’s chair, the upcoming installment in the long-runningMission: Impossiblefranchise sees Cruise back as Ethan Hunt, finishing the fight against Gabriel (Esai Morales) and the Entity. TheMission: Impossible – The Final Reckoningtrailerhas already teases some of the stunts to come from the action movie, including a sequence involving two biplanes that was filmed in the skies of South Africa.
Cruisenow takes to Instagram to provide a new look atMission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’s plane stunt, sharing a video that shows a behind-the-scenes look at how part of the sequence was filmed. The video is shot from the inside of a filming helicopter, withMcQuarrie watching footage on a monitor of Cruise, tethered to a safety rope, hanging on for dear life from an upside down yellow biplane. The camera then swings around to show Cruise through the helicopter window. Check it out below:
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With each pastMission: Impossiblemovie, Cruise has put his life on the line in the name of entertaining audiences, and that certainly doesn’t look to be changing withThe Final Reckoning. Some of the plane stunt has already been shown off in the first trailer for the movie, which showsCruise running to catch up to the yellow plane on a dirt runway, as well as Cruise dangling from the cockpit of the red plane. It’s not clear, however, what the context of the biplane sequence is or who the pilots are.
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Tom Cruise continues to perform his own dangerous stunts for the Mission: Impossible movies, each death-defying sequence upstaging the last.
While the plane stunt is shaping up to be one of the film’s standout set pieces, McQuarrie recently teased toEmpirethatthere’s another stunt in the movie that surpasses both the plane sequences and the underwater submarine sequence. The director doesn’t reveal what the stunt in question is, but saying it tops the biplane set piece definitely raises some major questions about just what Ethan gets up to following theMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoningending.
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Even without a score and all the trappings of a theatrically-releasedMission: Impossiblemovie, the behind-the-scenes video captures the intensity of Cruise’s biplane stunt.McQuarrie’s reaction as he watches Cruise on the monitor speaks to the real risk involved in what Cruise does, and the filmmaker does seem to have some genuine worry on his face. Clearly, though, there’s a great deal of trust between Cruise and McQuarrie and this creative pairing has given audiences some truly breathtaking action set pieces.
With Cruise now 62 years old,it’s not clear how much longer he will physically be able to do these types of stunts. It’s also not clear if the upcoming film will be the franchise’s last. IfMission: Impossible – The Final Reckoningis the last ride, though, it certainly looks like Cruise and McQuarrie have pulled out all the stops.
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning follows Ethan Hunt and his team as they pursue a formidable AI called the Entity that has compromised global intelligence networks. With new allies and a haunting figure from Hunt’s past in pursuit, they must act quickly to avert a global catastrophe.
