{"id":1785070,"date":"2022-12-23T08:02:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T13:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785070"},"modified":"2022-12-23T11:19:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T16:19:02","slug":"tom-cruise-performs-the-most-dangerous-stunt-hes-ever-attempted-in-behind-the-scenes-clip-from-mission-impossible-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-cruise-performs-the-most-dangerous-stunt-hes-ever-attempted-in-behind-the-scenes-clip-from-mission-impossible-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise Performs the \u201cMost Dangerous Stunt\u201d He\u2019s Ever Attempted in Behind-the-Scenes Clip From \u201cMission Impossible 7\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftom-cruise-performs-the-most-dangerous-stunt-hes-ever-attempted-in-behind-the-scenes-clip-from-mission-impossible-7%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785070&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\">Tom Cruise gave fans an inside look at how and he and his team pulled off the &#8220;greatest stunt in cinema history&#8221; for &#8220;Mission: Impossible \u2013\u00a0Dead Reckoning Part One.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/tom-cruise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 60-year-old actor<\/a> shared a 9\u00bd-minute featurette from the upcoming movie detailing the making of the stunt, in which Cruise rides a motorcycle off a cliff and then base jumps into a ravine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is far and away the most dangerous thing we&#8217;ve ever attempted,&#8221; Cruise said at the beginning of the clip.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/640\/320\/GettyImages-1004178672.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Tom Cruise gave fans an inside look at how and he and his team pulled off the \" greatest stunt in cinema history  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Tom Cruise gave fans an inside look at how and he and his team pulled off the &#8220;greatest stunt in cinema history&#8221; for &#8220;Mission: Impossible \u2013\u00a0Dead Reckoning Part One.&#8221;<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(James Devaney\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick&#8221; star continued, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to shoot it in Norway, and it will be a motorcycle jump off a cliff into a base jump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/tom-cruise-parachutes-off-mountain-filming-mission-impossible-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>TOM CRUISE PARACHUTES OFF A MOUNTAIN WHILE FILMING &#8216;MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8&#8217;<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The camera panned a massive ramp that ended on the edge of a huge cliff as Cruise said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve wanted to do it since I was a little kid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it all comes down to one thing \u2014\u00a0the audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie explained that Cruise put together a master plan and assembled a team of experts from all the disciplines involved to accomplish the feat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Second unit director and stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood detailed the extensive preparation that Cruise and the team undertook, which included &#8220;a year of base training, advanced sky-dive training, a lot of canopy skills, a lot of tracking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Base jumping coach Miles Daisher marveled over Cruise, whom he described as an &#8220;amazing individual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You tell him something, and he just locks it in,&#8221; Daisher added. &#8220;His sense of spatial awareness, he&#8217;s the most aware person I&#8217;ve ever met.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tracking with [base jumping coach] John [DeVore] and Miles in the air,&#8221; Eastwood continued. &#8220;Doing lots of different positioning. Like they were a two-man team in the air. Coming on top of each other, below each, back tracking, front tracking. You know we\u2019ve drilled, and drilled and drilled.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, Cruise explained that the motocross was the next part of the training.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eastwood recalled how the team built a motocross track in order for the actor to &#8220;get comfortable jumping 70- to 80-foot table tops.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to get so good at this that there&#8217;s just no way that I miss my marks,&#8221; Cruise added.<\/p>\n<p>Cruise went on to say that he trained and drilled, performing more than 30 jumps a day, to perfect every aspect of the stunt. The video stated that he performed over 13,000 jumps in all, with Eastwood noting that he performed over 500 skydives during his training.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McQuarrie explained that another challenge involved was positioning the cameras so all the stunts were captured on film.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coming up with the stunt is only one of the technical challenges,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;The other is putting a camera in place that you can see where Tom is doing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;Finding the right lens, the right platform, the right medium. Even two years ago, the cameras didn\u2019t exist that would allow us to do what we are trying to do today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/640\/320\/Mission-Impossible-Tom-Cruise.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Cruise revealed that he trained and drilled, performing more than 30 jumps a day, to perfect every aspect of the stunt.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Cruise revealed that he trained and drilled, performing more than 30 jumps a day, to perfect every aspect of the stunt.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Murray Close\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;How do we involve the audience?&#8221; Cruise asked. &#8220;I just want to give them that thrill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McQuarrie noted that the camera has to be in front of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/tom-cruise-jumps-helicopter-thank-fans-top-gun-maverick-success\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the actor<\/a> and as close to him as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The production team built a ramp over a quarry in England to replicate the jump in Norway and filled the landing area with cardboard boxes to catch the motorcycle after Cruise jumped off it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How fast should I go off? What distance do I travel?&#8221; Cruise said.<\/p>\n<p>In order to accomplish the camera work, the team built models of different ramps at different angles to calculate Cruise&#8217;s trajectory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The actor had a GPS attached to him to track his movements, and he was surrounded by drone cameras to capture the close-ups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because if we do it all, but we don&#8217;t capture it, what is the point?&#8221; Cruise posited.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always wear my earplugs, so I don&#8217;t have to hear myself scream,&#8221; he said as he flashed a smile.<\/p>\n<p>Cruise explained that the key was hitting certain speeds and being consistent. The motorcycle didn&#8217;t have a speedometer, so the actor said he knew when to jump by the &#8220;sound and feel of the bike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to be able to consistently predict where Tom will be in three-dimensional space,&#8221; McQuarrie noted.<\/p>\n<p>The clip cut to Hellesylt, Norway, on the day of the shoot in 2020. McQuarrie said that the &#8220;Mission: Impossible&#8221; team always begins filming with the biggest stunt in the movie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/640\/320\/Tom.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Cruise performed the death-defying stunt six times.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Cruise performed the death-defying stunt six times.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Ken Ishii)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In addition to the stunt work, the filmmaker noted that the weather had to be perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Cruise explained that he began warming up with base jumps to get a feel for the weather.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, when something is being done for the first time, you can&#8217;t help but worry about how it&#8217;s really going to turn out,&#8221; Daisher said. &#8220;The only things that you really have to avoid while doing a stunt like this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/avatar-star-kate-winslet-thought-she-died-breaking-tom-cruises-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serious injury or death<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tension built as Cruise made his first attempt at riding the motorcycle off the ramp and base jumping into the rock bowl. The team clapped and cheered as he pulled it off successfully.<\/p>\n<p>The video revealed that Cruise performed the stunt six times that day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is far and away the most dangerous stunt we have ever attempted,&#8221; McQuarrie said. &#8220;The only thing that scares me more is what we have planned for &#8216;Mission 8.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mission: Impossible \u2013 Dead Reckoning Part One&#8221; is set to be released in theaters July 13, 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Ashley Hume is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. 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