Tom Cruise Trained for a Year to Perfect Mission: Impossible 7 Stunt Where He Motorcycle Jumps Off A Cliff in Norway


 

Tom Cruise is pushing 60 and he’s still not done defying death at every turn in his career as an action star. Known for doing all of his own stunts in all his movies including high-octane action sequences such as him climbing the tallest building in the world at the time in M14, hanging onto the side of an airplane in M15, learning to pilot a helicopter and free fall from an incredible height in M16, as well as preparing to travel to outer space to shoot a movie on the International Space Station Tom Cruise is certainly endeavoring to make history with every movie he makes. At CinemaCon, a convention for movie theater owners held in Las Vegas earlier this week, a new in-depth behind the scenes featurette for M17 was unveiled in which they go into detail on how Tom Cruise trained for a year for his most dangerous stunt yet in which he barrels down a ramp off a cliff in Norway and in mid-air lets the bike go and free falls before his parachute is released. 

 


 

During his year of training before shooting the stunt Cruise took 500 skydiving lessons and performed 13,000 motorbike jumps. The stunt was captured on day one of principal photography but was preceded by an intense amount of hard work as Cruise’s dedication to getting the realest possible experience for movie audiences really shows through here. At the Paramount panel Cruise and his director Christoper McQuarrie provided insight into their process behind the scenes of the stunt:

 


 

“This is far and away the most dangerous thing I’ve attempted; we’ve been working on this for years,” said Cruise.

“I wanted to do it since I was a little kid,” says the actor in the behind-the-scenes clip with director Christopher McQuarrie and his stunt production ensemble. The clip was shown during Paramount’s presentation at CinemaCon on Thursday.

“The clouds have to be misty, not foggy,” says McQuarrie for the shot.

“I had to get so good at this so there’s no way I miss my mark,” says Cruise.


 

Another crucial aspect of this stunt was the specificity to detail as it took a long time for the production to properly program the cutting-edge high-tech flying drones to capture the stunt properly as the proper calculations needed to be fed into them with all the exact measurements and so forth in order to get the best possible shot for the stunt onscreen. 


 

Tom Cruise’s insane level of dedication to his work will certainly pay off when M17 a movie that has been fraught with delays ever since COVID hit putting Cruise under an enormous amount of pressure as a leader on set finally debuts in theaters as the beautiful cinematography captured in Norway paired with Cruise’s death-defying work will surely have audiences on the edge of their seats.  


 

“The only thing that scares me more is what we’ve got planned for Mission 8,” says McQuarrie.


 

Mission: Impossible 7 hits theaters on May 27, 2022. 


 






 

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