Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One | Tom Cruise | The Biggest Stunt in Cinema History

[Music] this is Far and Away the most dangerous thing we've ever attempted we've been working on this for years we're going to shoot it in Norway and it'll be a motorcycle jump off a cliff into a base jump I want to do it since I was a little kid it all comes down to one thing the audience there's a lot going into this stunt so Tom put together this master plan to coordinate all of these experts in each of the particular disciplines involved to make this whole thing happen John and I are jumping out of the helicopter he's gonna chase me as we say to each other don't be careful be confident be confident a year of Base training Advanced Skydive training a lot of canopy skills a lot of tracking Tom Cruise these amazing individuals you tell them something and he just locks it in his sense of spatial awareness he's the most aware person I've ever met lots of practice on stability and Free Fall trekking with John and miles in the air doing lots of different positioning like there were two men team in the air coming on top of each other below each other backtracking front tracking you know we've drilled and drilled and drilled when you do a lot of jumps back to back the canopy control skills improve a lot we have three open canopies which is a good thing the training has gone really well it's Progressive massive views how are you great day man this is the next part of training right here Motocross let's do it so we built a motocross track getting comps in the Motocross so he's comfortably jumping 70 80 foot tabletop great time in the air great positioning on the bike and Landing world I hope to get so good at this that there's just no way that I miss my marks that's good come a little closer to me coming up with the stunt is only one of the technical challenges the other is putting a camera in a place that you can see where Tom is doing it finding the right lens the right platform the right medium even two years ago the cameras didn't exist that would allow us to do what we're trying to do today how do we involve the audience I just want to give them that thrill that means the camera has to be in front of Tom and as close to him as possible feels like you're going over the camera yes very cool [Music] train and drill every little aspect over and over and over and over again they were doing 30 jumps a day getting to a point where he was just a machine I mean over 500 skydoms that's what we do over 13 000 Motocross jumps oh it's gonna be fun oh it's great replicated this ramp in England at a quarry we filled the Quarry with cardboard boxes which were there to catch the motorcycle the reason why we did that is so that Tom could simulate the jungle how fast should I go off what distance do I travel we built models of different ramps at different angles to calculate what Tom's trajectory would be we have to be able to consistently predict where Tom is going to be in three-dimensional space we're going to have a GPS chip on me and that recorded every single one of Tom's jumps along with his ground speed whether there was a headwind whether there was a crosswind and by doing this multiple times we were able to get a consistent set of data so that each take we can see what height I am so this way we can set drones and cameras in places where I can go right into closer rule one don't hit me because if we do it all we don't capture it right what's the point let's do it guys ready yep always grab my earplugs so I don't hear myself scream we are already ready the key is me hitting certain speeds and being consistent with that there's no speedometer so I do it by sound and feel of the bike and then as I depart the bike I'm choosing the wind that's hitting me here and I'm cupping my chest that will give me lifts [Music] for your help guys foreign [Applause] Norway we've been constructing this ramp over a number of months everything here has to be brought in by helicopter engineers and technicians it's incredible what they've done this is masterful today is day one of principal photography and we are starting in classic mission Forum with the biggest stunt in the film what we're doing here is I'm just doing jumps just to warm up the body let's do it just to get my tracking going and make sure everything's working all right I'll try not to smile foreign gets down and puts a parachute around and goes and does the bike job he'll actually know the weather conditions in this area in the valley and on the ground [Music] and then he asks the season to deploy a parachute now he's in a rock ball with walls all around him and he's got to fly out of it of course you know when something's been done for the first time you can't help but worry a little bit about how it's really going to turn out with a jump like this the challenge is finding the cameras it's the amount of preparation and then it's weather you want the light to be right you want the clouds to be right Misty but not foggy this weather right here is exactly what we're looking for about 10 minutes away from coming up here landing and doing the actual time sounds good we're in motion see you soon now we're going to set the frames of this camera ship with the Drone just to verify everything that we're gonna get ready you know the only things you really have to avoid while doing a stunt like this is a serious injury or death here we go you're riding a motorcycle which is pretty dangerous on top of a ramp that's elevated off the ground so if you come off the ramp that's going to be very bad you're falling if you don't get a clean exit from the bike and you get tangled up with it if you don't open your parachute then you're not going to make it three two one [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thanks man I think I can hold to the bike a little longer [Music] pretty much the biggest stunt in cinema history Tom Cruise just rode a motorcycle off a cliff six times today [Music] thank you [Music] Far and Away the most dangerous thing we've ever attempted the only thing that scares me more is what we have planned permissioning

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Length: 9min 22sec (562 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 19 2022