Hollywood superstarTom Cruiseis once again risking his life in the name of our entertainment, with the actor filming an intensely white-knuckle aerial stunt atop an airplane for the upcoming action sequelMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. The clip finds Cruise standing on the plane as casually as any ordinary mortal would stand on the ground before wishing audiences a great summer and saying, “see you at the movies.” You can check out the clip below.
The footage comes courtesy of Twitter user@icemavs, and findsMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part OnedirectorChristopher McQuarriein a plane alongside Cruise. Shouting for “action!” from his leading man,the clip teases just one of many breathtaking action sequencesfor theMission: Impossiblesequel, all of which will seemingly find Tom Cruise putting himself at risk and prove once again why he is so successful in bringing crowd-pleasing action movies to the silver screen.
Cruise has become so used to knocking on death’s door that his laid-back attitude has, in fact, become a problem when filming,with the actor sometimes unable to stop smiling. “I am a very physical actor and I love doing them. I study and train and take a lot of time figuring it all out,” Cruise said. “I have broken a lot of bones! The first time of any stunt is nerve-wracking, but it’s also exhilarating. I have been told a few times during shooting a stunt to stop smiling!”
While plot details surroundingMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Oneremain a mystery,the recent trailer hinted that, not for the first time, Ethan Hunt and his team will be chasing down a MacGuffin to save the world. Really, the plot is immaterial at this stage, with especially when footage fromMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Onehas teased hugely exciting action sequences and spectacular stunts galore.
Written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie,Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Onestars Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Frederick Schmidt, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Esai Morales, Rob Delaney, Charles Parnell, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss, and Cary Elwes.
Simon Pegg has recently teased the quality ofMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, comparing it to Cruise’s hugely successful legacy sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. “I’m very excited, obviously. I’m glad in a way, I think the success of Top Gun: Maverick has proven to everybody that the right decisions were made in terms of how things have been held back or delayed,” the actor said. “Obviously, we need some separation between Top Gun and Mission: Impossible, but they dropped Top Gun at exactly the right moment for it to hit as powerfully. I mean, not least because it’s a great movie, but it just played so well in terms of getting people back to the theater. By the time Dead Reckoning Part One swings around next year, I think people will be fully back in the movie houses if they’re not already, and we’ll see something utterly spectacular that’s built specifically for the cinema.”
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Oneis scheduled for release in the United States on June 16, 2025, by Paramount Pictures. The final sequel,Dead Reckoning Part Two, is scheduled to be released on June 26, 2025.
