Impossible 8 stunts ‘melt your brain’

There’s nothing Tom Cruise doesn’t do for your entertainment on the big screen. Over the past decade plus, he has cemented his reputation as the most bold man in Hollywood, not only a proper film star, but a stunt power center, a special effect. He has cycled rocks, flown fighter jets, climbed up Burj Khalifa, dangling from helicopters, base-jumped on loop, all in our entertainment name. And by the sound of things we haven’t seen anything yet. Mission: impossible – the final calculation is only months away, the closing chapter to 2023’s Dead Bill (And just maybe the saga as a whole) that we are sure will see cruise and ordinary instructor Christopher McQuarrie go to even dizzling heights of daredevilry.

Take, for example, the scene – as seen Empire‘s worldwide The final calculation Cover – where cruise clings to the wing in a Boeing Stearmanbiplan from the 1930s, which used to be through the air at 10,000 feet. The sequence was shot in South Africa with results promising to be electrifying. “There are stunts in this movie that melts your brain,” McQuarrie laughs and talks to Empire. “There would be a day in Africa – every day in Africa – where Tom would go out and do something that topped everything he had ever done before.” The mere thought of it is enough to leave you breathless. As it was cruise, all the way up there. “When you stick out your face, goes over 120 to 130 miles per hour, you won’t get oxygen,” he explains to Empire. “So I had to train myself how to breathe. There were times when I wanted to hand out physically; I couldn’t get back in the cockpit. “

Still, that’s just the beginning. McQuarrie promises an even more astonishing, death -stunt in The final calculation – One that surpasses not only the biplan sequence, but also an upcoming underwater flow. By the sounds of things we know what it is when we first see it. “I really want to puke and think about the stress,” McQuarrie says of the mysterious moment. “It was intense.” No mission is really impossible for these two.

Read Empireis full Mission: impossible – the final calculation Cover Story – continues with Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie and speaks to Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff, Hayley Atwell and more – in April 2025 -edition, for sale Thursday 13 February. Pre -order a copy online here. Mission: impossible – the final calculation Coming to British cinemas on May 21