Paramount Pictures has released an extended behind-the-scenes featurette offering a look at the set of Tom Cruise’s forthcoming Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning. The clip shows Cruise at work with his extended production team as they prep for what he describes as the “biggest stunt In cinema history.”
“This is far and away the most dangerous thing we’ve ever attempted,” Christopher McQuarrie, writer and director of the pic, says at the opening of the clip.
Cruise adds: “We’ve been working on this for years. We’re gonna shoot it in Norway, and it’s gonna be a motorcycle jump off a clip into a base jump. I’ve wanted to do it since I was a little kid. It all comes down to one thing: The audience.”
As Cruise explains, the stunt involves the actor riding a motorcycle at pace over the side of a cliff, at which point he leans into a base jump through the sky. The behind-the-scenes clip shows the grueling prep Cruise undertook to execute the scene, including over 500 skydives and 13,000 motocross jumps.
At the end of the clip, McQuarrie tells the camera that the only thing that scares him more is what he has planned for the next film in the Mission: Impossible franchise.
Dead Reckoning is the seventh film in the franchise, which stars Cruise as Ethan Hunt, a special agent of the Impossible Missions Force. Paramount’s behind-the-scenes clip is the first in-depth look at the pic, currently set for a July 2023 release.
Check out the full clip above.
‘Mission: Impossible:’ Tom Cruise Teases “Biggest Stunt In Cinema History”
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