Tom Cruise Made the Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning Director Go Out on the Wing of a Plane to Prove a Point About an Impossible Stunt

Needless to say, legendary histrion Tom Cruise has truly enactment the “impossible” successful Mission: Impossible implicit the years — but there’s nary denying helium truly upped the ante for the eighth installment of the franchise, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. In fact, Cruise has revealed that M:I 8 manager Christopher McQuarrie wanted him to bash immoderate really intolerable stunts for the upcoming film, but successful bid to exemplify however hard the feat was, helium rather virtually enactment McQuarrie up to the instrumentality himself.

"And past we talked astir communicative and [McQuarrie] was like, 'Okay, I privation you to spell from present to present successful a mates of seconds,'" Cruise explained during a caller property league for the movie successful Tokyo. "I was like, 'I can't bash that.' He's like, 'Okay, well, I privation you to bash this and this.' I was like, 'I truly can't bash that.'"

"It was the simplest thing,” McQuarrie added astir the peculiar stunt that tripped Cruise up. “Anything you'd describe, [he'd] say, 'No, you really can't bash that.' And I don't perceive 'can't' from him.”

But for Cruise, who has present done a full big of death-defying stunts connected the M:I films implicit the years, his acquisition truly told him everything helium needed to know. "I said, 'Just successful presumption of the speed, due to the fact that the unit of the air, for maine to determination rapidly connected the helping was… You conscionable can't bash it,'" the histrion insisted, explaining however a “20-minute tutorial” got McQuarrie to recognize wherever helium was coming from. "You're constricted by the physics of however accelerated the craft is traveling and the unit of the wind, that was utterly brutal. So I conscionable said, 'Listen, I deliberation the champion happening is if you conscionable bash it. Go out, beryllium successful the airplane, spell retired connected the wing, and consciousness it. Feel the pressure. So, present I am, grooming him."

McQuarrie, it turns out, loved the experience. "It was great, actually," helium said. "Yeah, it was a batch of fun. I would decidedly bash it again." Cruise besides explained during the league that he’d been grooming for this stunt for years, and that overmuch of getting it to enactment came down to choosing the close aircraft.

Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning volition person its satellite premiere astatine this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which takes spot from May 13 to May 24, 2025. After that, the movie volition stunt its mode into theaters worldwide connected May 23, 2025.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.