MI – Fallout’s Cruise describes "challenging" skydiving stunt at Beijing premiere

Record ID: 1354346

  • Title: MI – Fallout’s Cruise describes "challenging" skydiving stunt at Beijing premiere
  • Date: 29th August 2018
  • Summary: ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** EXTERIOR OF THE IMPERIAL ANCESTRAL TEMPLE (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR, TOM CRUISE, SAYING: "And it looks like it's all one take. Originally it was designed to be six different shots, but we were able to get it down to three different shots and it took over 106 jumps to get that shot. So, it was, when you see it, it's very complex. I
  • Embargoed: 12th September 2018 19:59
  • Keywords: Tom Cruise Simon Pegg Henry Cavill Christopher McQuarrie Mission Impossible - Fallout premiere in China Beijing
  • Location: BEIJING, CHINA
  • City: BEIJING, CHINA
  • Country: China
  • Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Film
  • Reuters ID: LVA0028V8ROEL
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Actor Tom Cruise described a stunt in his new film "Mission: Impossible - Fallout", where he leaps from a military plane at 25,000 feet (7,620 metres), as "very challenging" on Wednesday (August 29) at Beijing's premiere of the film.
    Cruise said the sequence took 106 skydives to complete, with equipment signed off by the Royal Air Force "to make sure that it didn't catch fire."
    The film, which is the sixth instalment of the spy movie franchise, tells the story of a mission gone wrong. Agent Ethan Hunt, played by Cruise, is hunted by assassins and former allies as he races against time to prevent a terrorist organisation from provoking a global catastrophe.
    Cruise, who is known for doing his own stunts, also races a motorbike helmet-less through oncoming traffic round Paris' Arc de Triomphe and pilots a helicopter though mountain ravines in Kashmir.
    The film opens in China on August 31.
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