From rushing trains to flying bikes, Tom Cruise has constantly tried to one-up himself with every successive Mission: Not possible film, generally breaking bones within the course of. So what might he presumably do in Mission: Not possible — The Last Reckoning to lift the bar? Properly, hanging off the aspect of an airplane once more isn’t the one factor, apparently. The growing older Hollywood icon is now promising an underwater stunt in contrast to any followers have seen earlier than.
“From Legend in 1985 to Mission: Not possible – The Last Reckoning, I’ve been learning and filming underwater sequences for over 40 years,” Cruise posted on X on Monday. “We’ve at all times tried to push our filmmaking to the subsequent degree. On this film McQ and I noticed a chance to create an underwater sequence in contrast to another. We’re excited to share it with you.”
He additionally posted a brief behind-the-scenes clip of the film’s manufacturing that features scenes of him swimming by means of what appears to be the downed submarine housing the AI referred to as The Entity which is threatening the world from 2023’s Useless Reckoning. It seems to be like Christopher McQuarrie, who directed Rogue Nation and Fallout as properly, had total parts of the sub’s inside recreated for the scenes. Hopefully, along with no matter new methods Cruise finds to make his insurance coverage brokers squirm, the sequence doesn’t lean on post-production particular results to make an impression.
This isn’t Mission: Not possible’s first main water stunt. Rogue Nation noticed Cruise maintain his breath for six minutes in a scene the place his character, Ethan Hunt, needed to unlock a hatch whereas swirling round an enormous server-cooling tank. And that scene solely happened after Cruise filmed Fringe of Tomorrow, for which McQuarrie helped write the script, which ends together with his character diving underwater beneath the Louvre Pyramid in Paris to kill an enormous alien.
The Last Reckoning hits theaters in just some weeks on Might 23, and brings with it quite a lot of questions past whether or not Cruise and the franchise nonetheless have new tips up their sleeves. For one, there’s the query of how the film will make good on the various callbacks to earlier entries within the franchise teased within the trailers, and what it’ll inform us about how Hunt got here to affix the IMF within the first place, a plot thread hinted at in Useless Reckoning. The largest query of all, although, is whether or not this can be Cruise’s final Mission: Not possible film. Given his obsession with films, Hollywood, and his personal legacy on the field workplace, I one way or the other doubt it. No less than so long as Last Reckoning does higher than its predecessor.
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