Tom Cruise filmed the most dangerous Mission: Impossible stunt on day one in case he died
Tom Cruise has revealed that he filmed Mission: Impossible 7's most dangerous stunt on the first day of shooting – just in case it killed him.
The stunt involved riding a motorbike off a cliff, then deploying a parachute while mid-air. Pretty terrifying stuff, but Cruise seems to have been focused only on the practicalities of what would happen if a multi-million dollar blockbuster suddenly lost its star midway through production (and his own state of mind approaching the stunt, which is very sensible if you ask us).
"Well we know either we're going continue with the film or we're not. [Laughs] Let's know day one," Cruise told Entertainment Tonight. "Let's know day one, what is going to happen? Do we all continue, or is it a major rewrite?"
He added: "I was training, I was ready. You have to be razor sharp when you do something like that, so it was very important as we were prepping the film that that actually was the first thing. I don't want to drop that and go shoot other things and then have my mind somewhere else. Everyone was prepped. Let's just get it done."
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has already drawn strong first reactions following its premiere. Alongside Cruise, the film stars Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff, Rebecca Ferguson, and Vanessa Kirby. Part Two is just around the corner, arriving in June 2024.
"We don't see ourselves in competition with Bond or John Wick. We love those movies, and we admire those filmmakers, and we want to see those guys win. All we're really doing is competing with ourselves," director Christopher McQuarrie told us in the new issue of Total Film magazine, which features Netflix spy movie Heart of Stone on the cover.
"And coming away from Top Gun, we
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