Tom Cruise’s Airplane Stunt In Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Left Him Hanging

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The latest installment in the Mission Impossible movie series that famed actor Tom Cruise and movie exec Paula Wagner’s Cruise Wagner Productions founded (and was behind the first three versions of the movie) has what is the craziest, and most dangerous stunt Mr. Cruise says he’s ever done in his life. You can see it in this trailer for Mission Impossible 5, just released Monday:

tom cruise stuntTom Cruise told Orlando Parfitt of Yahoo! Movies that since he was a kid, he wanted to do s stunt like hanging from the side of an airplane. ” I knew I wanted to have an airplane sequence. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. As a kid I remember flying on an airplane and thinking, “What would it be like out on the wing, or on the side of the airplane?,” Cruise said.

Christopher McQuarrie, who directed MI5 as well as two other Tom Criuse movies Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and Jack Reacher (2012), said that the challenge was to do something more over the top than his walking stunt off the side of the Burj Khalifa, the World’s Tallest Building. Enter the plane.

After accounting for every factor including birds, wind, fuel, and even pebbles, Cruise (with a harness you can see but is taken out digitally for the movie) hanged on the side of the plane and did this while it took off, flew, landed, and taxied – and did it eight times until they got it just right.

My Mom saw the trailer on TV and said “white guys will do anything for a buck.” If Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation tanks at the box office it may signal that the public’s seen enough of Tom almost killing himself.

But I seriously doubt that’s the case.

Stay tuned.

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