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‘Mission: Impossible 8’ is taking Tom Cruise to the limit, as he’s set to pilot a World War 2 plane
New photos from the set of ‘Mission: Impossible 8′ in the UK have revealed the kind of stunts that Tom Cruise has chosen to attempt during filming, and it’s nuts.
Tom Cruise is, without a doubt, one of the biggest actors of our time. Not only is he a great performer, but he has also personally decided to take what it means to be an actor to the extreme, leading him to star in all kinds of dangerous scenes without the use of stunt doubles. ‘Mission Impossible 8′ will not be the exception, since now it is known that Cruise will participate in a dangerous air chase in which he himself pilots an old World War II plane.
Months ago we told you about how he had been sighted in England literally hanging off of a plane in mid-flight as part of ‘Mission Impossible 8′, the next installment of the saga that will be released in 2025. In September 2024, the Daily Express reported that the actor has been seen in the same position piloting a vintage World War II plane: a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane, which was an aircraft intended for training North American aviators in the 1930s and 1940s.
This sequence has an enormous double risk: on the one hand, there is the ever-present possibility of a fatal accident when taking into account the height factor, while on the other it must also be taken into account that an eighty-year-old plane is not as reliable as a more recent aircraft. The fact That Cruise has reshot these scenes may imply that those that were initially recorded did not convince the production team., so they had to come back to fix it.
This scene seems to be a high-flying chase in which Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) confronts Gabriel (Morales Essay), one of the main antagonists of the previous film: ‘Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning’ (2023), who could also be seen in these snapshots behind the cameras. From these behind-the-scenes images, it can be deduced that, indeed, the eighth film in the ‘Mission Impossible’ saga, which still has no title, will have epic scenes full of adrenaline that will not disappoint the most die-hard fans.
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