The director of Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One has potentially revealed a massive stunt that will be taking place in a submarine. The film is the seventh movie in a franchise that began with Brian De Palma's 1996 film Mission: Impossible, which in turn was a follow-up to the television series of the same name, which aired from 1966 to 1973. The films star Tom Cruise as superspy Ethan Hunt, though the current format of the blockbuster franchise — in which the actor performs death-defying real-life stunts including running down the side of Burj Khalifa and clinging to the side of a midair jet — began to appear with the fourth film, 2011's Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol.
Dead Reckoning Part One, which is set to premiere in theaters on July 14, 2023, followed by Part Two on June 28, 2024, already has its own set of mind-boggling stunts prepared. This includes a scene where Cruise is hanging off the top of a biplane while it's flipping upside down. However, it has also been confirmed that both Dead Reckoning films will feature action setpieces revolving around a giant submarine.
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For their 200th episode, the Light the Fuse podcast celebrated with a massive slate of interview guests, including Cruise himself, Mission: Impossible 7 stars Mark Gatiss and Nick Offerman, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, and editor Eddie Hamilton, with a special appearance from Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick co-stars Glen Powell, Greg Tarzan Davis, and Danny Ramirez. During their conversation with McQuarrie, the hosts brought up a fan theory that the scuba suit seen in Dead Reckoning's submarine scene could be used to exit the submarine
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