From dashing trains to flying bikes, Tom Cruise has repeatedly tried to one-up himself with every successive Mission: Not possible film, generally breaking bones within the course of. So what may he probably do in Mission: Not possible — The Ultimate Reckoning to boost the bar? Properly, hanging off the aspect of an airplane once more isn’t the one factor, apparently. The growing older Hollywood icon is now promising an underwater stunt in contrast to any followers have seen earlier than.
“From Legend in 1985 to Mission: Not possible – The Ultimate Reckoning, I’ve been finding out and filming underwater sequences for over 40 years,” Cruise posted on X on Monday. “Now we have at all times tried to push our filmmaking to the subsequent stage. On this film McQ and I noticed a possibility to create an underwater sequence in contrast to another. We’re excited to share it with you.”
He additionally posted a brief behind-the-scenes clip of the film’s manufacturing that features scenes of him swimming by what appears to be the downed submarine housing the AI known as The Entity which is threatening the world from 2023’s Lifeless Reckoning. It appears like Christopher McQuarrie, who directed Rogue Nation and Fallout as nicely, had complete parts of the sub’s inside recreated for the scenes. Hopefully, along with no matter new methods Cruise finds to make his insurance coverage brokers squirm, the sequence doesn’t lean on post-production particular results to make an affect.
This isn’t Mission: Not possible’s first main water stunt. Rogue Nation noticed Cruise maintain his breath for six minutes in a scene the place his character, Ethan Hunt, needed to unlock a hatch whereas swirling round a large server-cooling tank. And that scene solely took place after Cruise filmed Fringe of Tomorrow, for which McQuarrie helped write the script, which ends together with his character diving underwater beneath the Louvre Pyramid in Paris to kill a large alien.
The Ultimate Reckoning hits theaters in just some weeks on Could 23, and brings with it numerous questions past whether or not Cruise and the franchise nonetheless have new tips up their sleeves. For one, there’s the query of how the film will make good on the numerous callbacks to earlier entries within the franchise teased within the trailers, and what it should inform us about how Hunt got here to affix the IMF within the first place, a plot thread hinted at in Lifeless Reckoning. The largest query of all, although, is whether or not this will probably be Cruise’s final Mission: Not possible film. Given his obsession with films, Hollywood, and his personal legacy on the field workplace, I someway doubt it. At the least so long as Ultimate Reckoning does higher than its predecessor.
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