Watch Tom Cruise Attempt ‘The Biggest Stunt in History’

The YouTube video title payments it as “The Largest Stunt in Cinema Historical past.” I don’t know if that’s true. Most likely a historian of stunt work can fact-check that. However both approach, what you’re about to see tried is positively excessive, and completely ridiculous: Tom Cruise driving a bike off a cliff after which base leaping to the bottom. Over … and over … and over.

This nine-minute featurette beneath basically reveals your complete course of behind this absurd endeavor from idea to execution as a part of the manufacturing of the upcoming Mission: Unattainable — Lifeless Reckoning Half One. Cruise claims he’s been engaged on the stunt for years, and wished to do it since he “was slightly child.” Director Christopher McQuarrie calls it “far and away essentially the most harmful factor we’ve ever tried” — and primarily based on the footage, that assertion doesn’t appear far-fetched.

However it’s not simply the hazard, it’s the ridiculous quantity of preparation and work that supposedly went into simply this single stunt. Throughout the video, they declare Cruise did 500 skydives and 13,000 motorcross jumps, all to determine pull off this one sequence.

You possibly can see the method and far of the consequence for your self right here:

I assumed we’d get to the tip of this they usually’d say, effectively if you wish to see Tom Cruise bounce this bike off this cliff, go see the film. However, no you see him do it time and again, so presumably it should look even extra spectacular within the movie. (And naturally this doesn’t present the context inside the story — one would assume Ethan Hunt should have an especially good cause to drive a motorcross bike off a cliff right into a base bounce, though for the lifetime of me, I can not conceive of 1. Then once more, does it actually matter?)

Mission: Unattainable — Lifeless Reckoning Half One is at the moment scheduled for launch completely in theaters on July 14, 2023. The sequel is meant to observe on June 28, 2024. (If this is what occurs in Half One, how do they prime that in Half Two?!?) Right here is the trailer for Lifeless Reckoning 1 that was launched a number of months in the past…