Very similar to Fast and furious movies, el Mission impossible movies always raise the bar. First Tom Cruise gets on the Burj Khalifa, then hangs on the side of a plane, then dives off a plane higher than should be humanly possible. And this trend will continue with Mission: impossible 7, currently scheduled for release on May 27, 2022.
During that of Paramount presentation at CinemaCon 2021, exhibitors received a 10-minute video detailing Cruise’s latest trick. This will see him riding a motorcycle down a real cliff, jumping off the motorcycle into the air, falling free for a few seconds and then parachuting to the bottom of a huge gorge. And of course, he’s actually doing Tom Cruise. He is not a trick person. So he had to practice and train a lot to be able to stretch if you are out.
Over the course of a year, Cruise completed about 500 parachutists, which sometimes included 30 in a day, as well as 13,000 motocross jumps on a specially built track. All of this was done to make sure Cruise was a complete expert not only in basic jumping and skydiving, but also in motocross. It should be all this to end the trick on the day.
But only doing the trick is not enough. Director Christopher McQuarrie and his team had to capture him. So while Cruise was training, McQuarrie and his team were testing new cameras, lenses, and new technologies and drones to make sure they could capture the trick as close as possible. (You don’t have to train Tom Cruise for an entire year if the audience won’t be able to really see him doing tricks on the screen.) McQuarrie’s team also built a ramp model that would eventually be used in a quarry. and performed Cruise simulations with a special GPS chip. That way they could calculate and predict all the different trajectories where Cruise could get off the bike, where the bike would land, everything.
Meanwhile, the actual ramp had to be built in Norway, in such a remote place that every piece had to be introduced by helicopter. The months and months of construction and preparation led to the first day of filming Mission: Impossible 7, which is when they would immediately remove the biggest trick from the movie. Here is a picture of this ramp.
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And that day, as you can imagine, since you haven’t seen any news about the disappearance of one of the biggest movie stars, all the training and preparation paid off. Cruise pulled off the trick neither one nor two, but six times, each time you try to grab the bike more, pull the parachute a little later, to make it more dramatic and exciting.
In the end, McQuarrie said the only thing more terrifying than doing what his team considered the biggest trick in film history, what they had planned Mission: impossible 8.
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