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Tom Cruisehas done plenty of wild stunts — including some that have ended in injuries — but a new onMission: Impossible 7is beating all the rest.
In special footage shown at CinemaCon on Thursday, Cruise, 59, and the stunt team for the movie previewed a wild stunt in which Cruise himself drives a motorbike off a cliff.
The sequence revolves around Cruise as he rides “off of a massive ramp on an also massive cliff, fly off the bike, and parachute to the ground,” according toEntertainment Weekly.
“By far the most dangerous stunt we’ve ever done,” writer-director Christopher McQuarrie said in the clip, viaEW. The footage also reveals the stunt took 500 hours of skydiving training and 13,000 motorbike jumps to get it just right.
The clip then ends with Cruise performing the stunt himself, with a crew member saying, “Tom Cruiserode a motorcycle off a cliff six times today.”
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Cruise was previously seen filming the death-defying stunt last August.
According to theDaily Mail, the stunt was filmed on a 650-foot ramp on the film’s set in Oxfordshire, England, and was “estimated to have cost £2 million,” or more than $2.6 million in U.S. dollars.
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TheMission: Impossiblefilm saga is based on the popular television series of the same name, and the seventh iteration in the famed set of films will follow Cruise’s Ethan Hunt as he takes on another mission.
Cruise previouslyrevealedin January 2019 that the seventh and eighthMission: Impossiblefilms will be shot back-to-back with Christopher McQuarrie writing and directing both films.
Mission: Impossible 7was originally scheduled to be released on July 23, 2021 but has been pushed back to a new release date of May 27, 2022 amid the current health crisis.
source: people.com
