Tom Cruise has been training for Mission: Impossible 6 stunt for a year

Stunts… apparently, Tom Cruise does his own – Credit: Paramount
Stunts… apparently, Tom Cruise does his own – Credit: Paramount

Ever since he dangled himself from the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and hung on to that cargo plane as it took off in ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’, Tom Cruise has elevated the notion of actors doing their own stunts.

But it seems he’s still pretty keen to outdo himself in the forthcoming, so-far unsuffixed ‘Mission: Impossible 6’.

And according to reports, he’s already been in training for the stunt for a whole year.

Speaking to Collider as SXSW, producer David Ellison said: “We’re thrilled. Chris [McQuarrie] is back, obviously, writing and directing after Rogue Nation. We could not be more excited about the character Henry Cavill’s going to play.

“And I will say after the Burj [Khalifa] we thought it was going to be impossible to top that stunt, and then Tom did the A380 for the plane. What Tom is doing in this movie I believe will top anything that’s come before. It is absolutely unbelievable- he’s been training for a year.

“It is going to be, I believe, the most impressive and unbelievable thing that Tom Cruise has done in a movie, and he has been working on it since right after Rogue Nation came out. It’s gonna be mind-blowing.”

(Credit: Paramount)
(Credit: Paramount)

On Cruise’s penchant for stunts, he went on: “It all comes from the best place. It is all about entertaining an audience.

“Tom’s entire mantra for hanging on the side of the Burj Khalifa or the A380 or literally holding your breath for six minutes underwater to do the Taurus sequence is, in a world of massive [visual] effects, he said the audience can tell when it’s you on a green screen or when you’re actually doing it live.

“And the tension, because the stunt is real, actually puts the audience where Ethan Hunt is where they are in the movie. He said that’s why he does it; it’s all about entertaining an audience and it makes the movie better.”

Solid hype work there from Ellison.

McQuarrie then got himself on Twitter to clarify the comments. And stoke up a bit more hype too.

The movie is due out on July 27, 2018.

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