Mission: Impossible

A new Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One trailer takes audiences behind the scenes on the most dangerous stunt of Tom Cruise's career.

The context surrounding Ethan's motorcycle jump off a cliff is not yet clear, but the jump itself proves that Cruise is continuing to push himself to new limits. Although the upcoming film is expected to feature even more stunts, it can set itself apart from previous installments by digging deeper into Ethan as a character. It's unclear exactly why Kittridge is returning in the upcoming seventh installment, but he could ultimately help to connect the film to the beginning of Ethan's time as an IMF agent. Czerny first played Eugene Kittridge in the very first Mission: Impossible film, serving not as the film's villain but as a key obstacle in Ethan's journey. It appears that Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is doubling down on After the success of 2018's Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Cruise is slated to return as superspy Ethan Hunt for what is expected to be the penultimate entry in the franchise.

The stunt calls for Cruise to ride his motorcycle off a cliff, let go of the bike, and dive straight down until a parachute deploys. Director Christopher ...

Cruise had the cast of Director Christopher McQuarrie shares that it was Cruise who assembled a group of experts for every single part of the stunt. "I have to get so good at this that there's no way I miss my marks," Cruise says, noting the potentially fatal danger.

Tom Cruise shared a behind-the-scenes video for "Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning," the seventh installment in the franchise.

Production for “Dead Reckoning Part I” was repeatedly halted by the COVID-19 pandemic but eventually wrapped in September 2021. [theatrical release](https://www.indiewire.com/2022/05/mission-impossible-7-trailer-tom-cruise-1234725862/) due in part to Cruise’s urging. “This is far and away the most dangerous thing we’ve ever attempted,” Cruise says in the video filmed while in Norway for production in 2020. “And we have no doubt that this new picture will set the bar even higher.” [first look](https://www.indiewire.com/2022/04/mission-impossible-7-title-first-look-tom-cruise-1234720563/) at the film during Paramount Pictures’ showcase at CinemaCon earlier this year captured Cruise holding onto a plane while flying over South Africa. Cruise has played undercover CIA agent Ethan Hunt for close to 30 years, with “Mission: Impossible 7” arriving in theaters July 14, 2023, soon followed by “Mission: Impossible 8” out June 28, 2024.

Paramount Pictures has released a featurette going behind the scenes of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. The featurette follows star Tom ...

He continued, "And yet, Dead Reckoning didn't really apply as well to Part One as well as it did to Part Two until we started to play with the beginning of the movie, and kind of recognize that Dead Reckoning, while it sounded cool, what did it really have to do with the movie? Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One stars Cruise and returning stars Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Czerny, and Vanessa Kirby. [Tom Cruise](/category/tom-cruise/) and director Christopher McQuarrie through the steps of "the biggest stunt in cinema history," which involves Cruise parachuting out of a helicopter, then driving a motorcycle off a cliff, into a base jump.

The man will do anything, it seems. It's not a Tom Cruise film without a life-threatening stunt but that's particularly true of the Mission Impossible film ...

What’s even wilder is that Cruise ended up carrying out the stunt six times in order to get the perfect shot. The stunt was actually filmed back in September 2020 in Hellesylt, Norway, so the good news is that we know Cruise completed the stunt and was okay. The stunt will see Cruise ride a motorbike off the edge of a ramp, positioned atop a cliff I should add, propelling him into the air, before parachuting to safety.

The actor literally goes above and beyond on this behind-the-scenes look at Dead Reckoning's biggest stunt.

It sounds much more impressive than just pulling a parachute, but then [I watched it again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QGdqdZes_0) and realized the special effects were perhaps not as impressive as I recalled. [GoldenEye](https://gizmodo.com/goldeneye-007-remaster-nintendo-switch-xbox-online-play-1849529967), in which James Bond not only drives a motorcycle off a cliff, but free falls to catch up and enter a plummeting airplane. [Tom Cruise](https://gizmodo.com/tom-cruise-mission-impossible-airplane-stunt-1849506417) is well known for doing as many of his own stunts as possible, no matter how dangerous they are or needless they seem to be.

The Behind-the-scenes footage released of Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning” is nerve-jangling, to say the least.

There have been constant delays in relation to ‘Dead Reckoning,’ especially due to the pandemic’s effect on global supply-chain, production workers and locations. the problem is that Cruise is the producer of these ‘Mission Impossible’ movies — he’d just pay the insurance company their demands, no questions asked, and perform the stunts himself. [released](https://twitter.com/MissionFilm/status/1604838974933110787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1604838974933110787%7Ctwgr%5E8c6dff8d8e95c0d5ecc3eb8f93906e7bfe394443%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fawardsworthy.org%2Fshowthread.php%3F39040-Christopher-McQuarrie-will-return-for-M-I-6-and-beyond%2Fpage43) of Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning” is nerve-jangling, to say the least.

"This is far and away the most dangerous thing we've ever attempted," the actor says.

The team conducted the stunt in Norway in 2020. The stunt is years in the making. "This is far and away the most dangerous thing we've ever attempted," Cruise says in the video released Monday.