Tom Cruise has given fans a look at how he and his team pulled off the “biggest stunt in movie history” for “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.”
On Wednesday, the 60-year-old actor shared a 9.5-minute featurette from the upcoming film detailing the making of the stunt, in which Cruise rides a motorcycle off a cliff and then jumps into a ravine.
“This is by far the most dangerous thing we’ve ever attempted,” Cruise said at the start of the clip.
Tom Cruise has given fans a look at how he and his team pulled off the “biggest stunt in movie history” for “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.”
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The ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ star continued, “We’re going to shoot it in Norway and it’s going to be a motorcycle jump off a cliff into a base jump.”
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The camera picked up a massive ramp that ended at the edge of a huge cliff as Cruise said, “I’ve wanted to do this since I was a little kid.”
“And it all comes down to one thing: the audience.”
Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie explained that Cruise came up with a master plan and assembled a team of experts from all disciplines involved to accomplish the feat.
Second Unit Director and Stunt Coordinator Wade Eastwood detailed the extensive preparation Cruise and the team undertook, which included “one year of basic training, advanced skydiving training, lots of canopy skills, lots of follow-up.
Base jumping coach Miles Daisher marveled at Cruise, who he described as an “incredible individual”.
“You tell him something, and he locks it down,” Daisher added. “His sense of spatial awareness, he’s the most aware person I’ve ever met.”
“Follow up with [base jumping coach] John [DeVore] and Miles through the air,” Eastwood continued. “Do a lot of different positioning. As if they were a two-man team in the air. Coming over each other, under each other, back tracking, forward tracking. You know we drilled and drilled and drilled.”
In the clip, Cruise explained that motocross was the next part of the workout.
Eastwood recalled how the team built a motocross track so the actor “feel comfortable jumping on 70-80 foot tables.”
“I have to get so good at it that there’s no way I’m missing my marks,” Cruise added.
Cruise went on to say that he trained and practiced, performing more than 30 jumps a day, to perfect every aspect of the stunt. The video said he had performed over 13,000 jumps in all, with Eastwood noting that he had performed over 500 parachute jumps during his training.
McQuarrie said another challenge was positioning the cameras so that all of the stunts were captured on film.
“Understanding the stunt is only one of the technical challenges,” he explained. “The other puts a camera up so you can see where Tom is doing it.”
He added: “Finding the right lens, the right platform, the right medium. Even two years ago, the cameras didn’t exist to allow us to do what we’re trying to do today.
Cruise revealed that he trains and trains, performing more than 30 jumps a day, to perfect every aspect of the stunt.
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“How do we involve the public? Cruise asked. “I just want to give them that thrill.”
McQuarrie noted that the camera should be in front of the actor and as close to him as possible.
The production team built a ramp over a quarry in England to replicate the jump in Norway, and filled the landing area with cardboard boxes to grab the motorcycle after Cruise jumped from it.
“How fast should I go, how far should I go? says Cruise.
In order to accomplish the camera work, the team built models of different ramps at different angles to calculate Cruise’s trajectory.
The actor had a GPS strapped to him to track his movements, and he was surrounded by drone cameras to capture the close-ups.
“Because if we do everything, but we don’t capture it, what’s the point?” Cruise posed.
“I always wear my earplugs so I don’t have to hear myself scream,” he said with a smile.
Cruise explained that the key is hitting certain speeds and being consistent. The motorcycle didn’t have a speedometer, so the actor said he knew when to jump by “the sound and feel of the motorcycle.”
“We need to be able to consistently predict where Tom will be in three-dimensional space,” McQuarrie noted.
The music video was shot in Hellesylt, Norway on the day of set in 2020. McQuarrie said the “Mission: Impossible” crew always starts filming with the movie’s biggest stunt.
Cruise has performed the death-defying stunt six times.
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In addition to the stunts, the filmmaker noted that the weather also had to be perfect.
Cruise explained that he started warming up with basic jumps to get a feel for the weather.
“Of course, when something is first done, you can’t help worrying about how it’s really going to turn out,” Daisher said. “The only things you really need to avoid when doing a stunt like this are serious injury or death.”
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Tension set in when Cruise made his first attempt at riding the bike off the ramp and base jumping into the rock bowl. The team cheered and cheered as he passed.
The video revealed that Cruise performed the stunt six times that day.
“This is by far the most dangerous stunt we’ve ever attempted,” McQuarrie said. “The one thing that scares me the most is what we have planned for ‘Mission 8’.”
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” is set to hit theaters on July 13, 2023.
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