Speaking of exclusive rights over stunts, Tom Cruise has a natural knack for choosing the craziest way to perform action and insists on doing things safely but not falling off a mountain (upside down) or something. Having been a wrestler until an injury forced Cruise into acting. But the high-energy, tenacious spirit stuck with him and is one of the biggest reasons he insists on performing his own stunts. His work is driven by his background as a college athlete and his commitment to realism, resulting in some of the most staggering sequences seen in modern day cinema.
The Mission: Impossible How Tom Cruise witnessed all of the Fancy Footwork
Cruise’s Mission: Impossible series is known for its elaborate stunts. With each new film, he slips a little further into the faster-paced testosterone-drenched action. While some of those risks include massive production costs which the studio appears all too happy to cover, his dedication to performing his own stunts certainly has its price. His fans love him for that and they might await each of these big-screen feats to be performed one by one given how raw the actor goes with his film roles. Cruise still appears unstoppable at 62, and he continues to throw himself into physically demanding, sometimes dangerous moments.
Cruise Stunts define the Mission Impossible Movies
Cruise was doing another of his trademark near-impossible stunts, this time performing gravity-defying upside-down plane rides in Mission Impossible 8, pictured clinging to the side of a subway train. Earlier this year, Cruise performed what some have called the most dangerous stunt of his career in Dead Reckoning Part One. He told Entertainment Tonight that he did this difficult feat early on in the shoot so that if he got hurt, they could continue shooting the rest of the film without him. The uncomfortably insane stuff included training for something called “speed flying,” one of the most dangerous sports in the world according to director Christopher McQuarrie—but it involves deploying a small parachute and descending quickly.
Cruise has had even crazier stunts within the prior Mission: Impossible films. In Rogue Nation, he hung off the side of an Airbus 400 — a stunt that took weeks to prepare for and special measures. As for the harness, Robert Elswit told THR that Cruise wore a full body harness wired to the door of the plane and other safety measures were implemented, such as contact lenses (to protect his eyes from debris). So everything on the plane was exactly how we wanted it, and so even at a high rate of speed stuff comes up when bits of rubber or just other debris with one tire is made into a projectile since sonic.Â
“We went over the runway, not just to house degree but also finally we painstakingly used busses; tube each capacity pipe are cleaned of something similar main particle free so that our white/silver force stops could gain touch there as small things would be triggered on variant mater reference level your can by useful,” said Judith Notsch geotechnical formed Petty group manager.
 It was much the same story in Ghost Protocol, where he climbed the Burj Khalifa (aka tallest building in the world) with nothing but a single wire passing across his path while he walked, climbed and swung at jet plane heights.
Training, Injury And Commitment—The Price Of Getting Big
Before that, Cruise broke his ankle when he miscalculated a jump on the set of Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which resulted in some production being paused. The budget of the $180 million film of course swelled close to $250 million, with at least part of the bill underwritten by insurance. These production costs also include training and rigorous preparation by Cruise. Cruise did over 200 hours on the Burj Khalifa scenes on an adjustable wall built to replicate that part of the face, according to stunt coordinator Gregg Smrz.
Of course, Cruise’s stunts require greater insurance premiums. Aside from the regular policy a different, specific to his stunts (20% of total policy limits can have a very high deductible). These stunts can be even costlier for studios, since insurance companies utilize specialty carriers.
Why Tom Cruise Gets Away with Making High Risk Movies
It also demonstrates why studios continue to support the stunts Cruise performs himself: not only are they a clever use of technology and storytelling, but they also serve as a huge audience attraction. Marketing stories around his craziness, with each release of new shoes giving you high hope they would reveal what crazy dare this guy is up to next. Theater goers are always looking for breath-render stunts to unravel and in return, it has become a reliable method that yields dividends where Cruise is concerned. Goosebumps: Top Gun: Maverick is a great recent example that sank or swam on the fury of its practical stunts and went on to be Cruise’s highest ever grossing film (and best current opening weekend).
Despite the effect of last year’s “Barbenheimer” on Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One at the box office, fans are looking to see what Cruise does next in Mission: Impossible 8. Cruise sends fans into the summer with Movie Magic that cannot be matched in realizing and he always seems to be willing to push one level higher or one degree further for even more satisfaction.
