(Yes, Tom Cruise hates streaming so much he’s now squaring up to an algorithm.) Dubbed The Entity, this faceless, stateless antagonist is an artificial intelligence capable of infiltrating pretty much any digital network to chaotic ends. “Dead Reckoning” sees “Mission: Impossible” lean into 21st century anxieties in the form of its villain. Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson in 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.' Paramount Pictures “It’s a huge relief when it’s all behind you and everybody’s safe.” With all that heart-in-mouth action, is McQuarrie still able to have fun? “It’s more fun to finish a ‘Mission Impossible’ movie, for sure,” he said. There was no coming back from it.”Ĭruise put his director through the experience six times to capture the stunt from all the necessary angles, which looks even more spectacular in the finished movie than the marketing material suggests. “Once I saw blue, I was just making sure it was a square, because if it wasn’t a square, it meant there was a malfunction.

“I was just staring at the crosshairs on the screen, and I was waiting to see blue – blue was the color of his parachute,” he recalled. It was one thing for Cruise to perform the stunt, quite another to watch, powerless to intervene, said writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, Cruise’s long-term creative partner affectionately known as “McQ.” The stunt was filmed in Norway back in 2020 on the first day of the film’s arduous, Covid-stricken production.

In the latest movie Cruise can be seen riding a motorcycle off a cliff before BASE jumping on to … actually, let’s keep this spoiler-free. As superspy Ethan Hunt he’s dangled from the world’s tallest building, clung on to the outside of a plane during take-off, and performed a military-level high altitude, low opening (HALO) skydive no less than 100 times. “It’s that I don’t mind being scared.”Ĭruise, who famously does his own stunts, has put his body on the line time and again for the multibillion-dollar franchise. “It’s not that I don’t get scared,” the actor said. Speaking in London ahead of the release of “ Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One,” Cruise shared that, yes, he feels fear.

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