Tom Cruise Had Just A Six-Second Window To Pull His Chute After His Mission Impossible 7 Motorcycle Jump
In his continuing quest to risk life and limb for your entertainment, no stunt is too dangerous or foolhardy for Tom Cruise. You’ve already seen him jump backward out of a plane this week, but riding a motorcycle off a cliff for the next “Mission: Impossible” movie? Sure, why not?
“Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part I” marks the beginning of the end for Cruise’s stint as secret agent Ethan Hunt, a role he first played for Brian De Palma in 1996 before working with a succession of other directors: John Woo, J.J. Abrams, Brad Bird, and, since 2015, Christopher McQuarrie (who will have directed the last four of eight “Mission: Impossible” movies, when all is said and done). After several production delays and release date changes, “Dead Reckoning – Part I,” the seventh installment in the franchise, is finally set to hit theaters next summer. To get you ready for that, Cruise has taken to Twitter — even as it goes down in flames — to share a nine-minute behind-the-scenes video showing all the preparation and training that went into a stunt he calls “far and away, the most dangerous thing we’ve ever attempted.”
As you can see from the video below, Cruise underwent months of base-jumping and motocross training just so he could drive over a cliff and deploy a parachute on his way down. In an interview with Empire magazine last year, the 60-year-old actor and co-producer said, “I had about six seconds once I departed the ramp to pull the chute, and I don’t want to get tangled in the bike. If I do, that’s not going to end well.”
Tom Cruise Had Just A Six-Second Window To Pull His Chute After His Mission Impossible 7 Motorcycle Jump
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