Paramount Pictures has unveiled a nine-minute behind the scenes video chronicling the planning and intensive/extensive training Tom Cruise underwent leading up to the biggest stunt in cinema history. The daredevil stunt will be featured in the upcoming seventh film of the Mission: Impossible franchise, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. And as writer/director Christopher McQuarrie points out, the biggest jump of a M.I. film is traditionally shot first.
Tom Cruise’s training involved 500 skydives and 13,000 motocross jumps.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning is the seventh film of the franchise. Tom Cruise’s first outing as Ethan Hunt premiered in 1996 with Brian De Palma directing. Mission: Impossible II followed in 2000 with John Woo at the helm and Mission: Impossible III, directed by J.J. Abrams, opened in 2006. Pixar’s Brad Bird (Ratatouille) made his live-action feature film directorial debut with 2011’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Christopher McQuarrie began his run as Mission: Impossible director with 2015’s Rogue Nation followed by 2018’s Fallout and both upcoming Dead Reckoning films.
The new Mission: Impossible also features returning MI stars Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust, and Vanessa Kirby as The White Widow. Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Frederick Schmidt, Charles Parnell, Rob Delaney, Cary Elwes, Indira Varma, and Mark Gatiss also star.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One will open in theaters on July 14, 2023.
Cruise and McQuarrie produce, and David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, and Tommy Gormley executive produce.
