Tom Cruise Thanks Fans While Skydiving During ‘Mission: Impossible’ Shoot
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2022 has been a good year for Tom Cruise. Top Gun: Maverick grossed more than $718 million domestically and nearly $1.5 billion globally, far exceeding the results of its 36-year-old predecessor (even when considering inflation).
Furthermore, the movie showed cinema juggernauts like Thor or Doctor Stange the afterburner, making 2022 one of the few years in recent history, with no Disney or Marvel movie ending up at the top of the box office.
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But Cruise has another long-running alter-ego besides Pete “Maverick” Mitchell: Ethan Hunt. He performed as the head of the Impossible Mission Force (IFM) for the first time in 1996 and has reprised this role five times since. The last entry of the franchise Mission Impossible: Fallout premiered in 2018.
After quite a few delays caused by the pandemic, next year will bring the seventh cinematic adventure of Ethan Hunt and his crew with Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning. It will be premiered as the story is split into two movies for the first time.
On December 18, Cruise shared a video on his Twitter account, where he thanked the fans for supporting Top Gun: Maverick. What makes this video special is that it’s filmed from the open door of a little aircraft high above the coast of South Africa. It’s not entirely clear when the reel was shot, as filming in South Africa already took place in the first half of 2022 as part of the shooting for Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part 2, but it also could have happened at a recent re-shoot.
Also present on the plane is Christopher McQuarrie, writer, and director of both MI movies. McQuarrie and Cruise are frequent collaborators as the filmmaker from Princeton, New Jersey, is responsible for the fifth and the sixth Mission Impossible film and was also one of the writers for Top Gun: Maverick.
McQuarrie urges Cruise to hurry, as they have to “get this shot,” which prompts Cruise and his cameraman to jump off the plane into a skydive. The video ends with Cruise wishing his fans a safe and happy holiday before completing his skydive and dropping down to the coast.
Tom Cruise is notorious for performing his own stunts, no matter how dangerous they are. For example, a video shared by Paramount recently shows behind-the-scenes footage from filming a motorcycle jump from an incredibly high cliff in Norway. During rehearsals, the actor took countless hours of motocross training and performed thousands of training jumps before the scene, for which a massive ramp was constructed in Norway was shot.
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part 1, will premiere on July 14, 2023, with the second part set to be released on June 22, 2024. Besides Cruise Vingh Rames, Simon Pegg. Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, and Henry Czerny will reprise their roles from prior Mission Impossible films.
Top Gun: Maverick premiered on Paramount+ on December 22.
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Source(s): Variety
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