Mission Impossible: Tom Cruise's Heart-Stopping Biplane Stunt Incident
The star, who at 62 performed his own stunts for the forthcoming Final Reckoning, tells Cannes press conference ‘I don’t mind encountering the unknown’
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Tom Cruise was stranded on the wing of a biplane soon before it ran out fuel during the filming of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the director of the eighth installment of the action franchise has revealed.
Hours before the movie's premiere, director Christopher McQuarrie told a crowd at the Cannes film festival about the filming of a stunt sequence in which Cruise, in his long-running role as field agent Ethan Hunt, walked between a biplane's two wings while the aircraft was in mid-air over South Africa.
Hours before the movie's premiere, director Christopher McQuarrie told a crowd at the Cannes film festival about the filming of a stunt sequence in which Cruise, in his long-running role as field agent Ethan Hunt, walked between a biplane's two wings while the aircraft was in mid-air over South Africa.
According to McQuarrie, who has directed the actor in the last four Mission: Impossibles and the Jack Reacher action movie series, Cruise, who at 62 still insists on doing his own stunts, came up with the action scene in which he would float "zero-G" between the plane's wings and disregarded the professional wing-walking stuntmen's initial warnings.
As the director, who was supervising the stunt from a helicopter flying alongside, noted, "wing-walking is very dangerous because the human body starts to break down after about 12 minutes due to the impact of wind at extreme speed and the difficulty of breathing in dispersed molecules." "Going to the gym is like spending two hours there."
As the director, who was supervising the stunt from a helicopter flying alongside, noted, "wing-walking is very dangerous because the human body starts to break down after about 12 minutes due to the impact of wind at extreme speed and the difficulty of breathing in dispersed molecules." "Going to the gym is like spending two hours there."
However, after the 12-minute mark had elapsed, Cruise had indicated to McQuarrie that he wanted to continue shooting.
In an on-stage interview at Cannes, McQuarrie and Cruise remarked, "There was a moment where Tom had pushed himself to the point that he was so physically exhausted, he couldn't get back up off the wing." His arms were dangling over the front of the aircraft as he lay on its wing. We were unable to determine whether he was conscious.
According to McQuarrie, the pilot informed him that the aircraft had just three minutes of fuel left, but that the actor was lying prone on the wing, which prevented the plane from landing.
In an on-stage interview at Cannes, McQuarrie and Cruise remarked, "There was a moment where Tom had pushed himself to the point that he was so physically exhausted, he couldn't get back up off the wing." His arms were dangling over the front of the aircraft as he lay on its wing. We were unable to determine whether he was conscious.
According to McQuarrie, the pilot informed him that the aircraft had just three minutes of fuel left, but that the actor was lying prone on the wing, which prevented the plane from landing.
McQuarrie remarked, "We saw Tom pull himself up and stick his head in the cockpit so that he could climb up into the cockpit and replenish the oxygen in his body." "Only Tom is capable of doing that."
As he joined the director on stage, Cruise, who swooped into the Palais de Festivals as part of a multi-stop promotional trip that also included stops in Japan, Korea, and London, boasted about his skills. He declared, "I don't mind facing the unknown." "For me, it is merely an emotion and not a paralyzing one."
As he joined the director on stage, Cruise, who swooped into the Palais de Festivals as part of a multi-stop promotional trip that also included stops in Japan, Korea, and London, boasted about his skills. He declared, "I don't mind facing the unknown." "For me, it is merely an emotion and not a paralyzing one."
McQuarrie, who first gained notoriety in Hollywood as the screenwriter of the cult thriller The Usual Suspects in 1995, lamented that the current state of the US film industry was "driving a wedge through cinema" by making filmmakers increasingly choose between viewing themselves as entertainers or artists.
He questioned the assertions that streaming behemoths like Netflix and company were "saving Hollywood," claiming that by putting their own creations ahead of old movies on their home pages, they were "cutting the audience off from the history of cinema."
He questioned the assertions that streaming behemoths like Netflix and company were "saving Hollywood," claiming that by putting their own creations ahead of old movies on their home pages, they were "cutting the audience off from the history of cinema."
"The quantity of individuals I encounter who have never seen Cool Hand Luke, William Wyler's The Big Country, or The Best Years of Our Lives, and whose cinematic background starts with Pirates of the Caribbean or Star Wars."
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