Tom Cruise just performed his most dangerous stunt yet – riding a motorcycle off a cliff and base jumping

Tom Cruise has carried out one other daring stunt for the “Mission: Unimaginable” movie sequence. 

He known as this one probably the most harmful factor he is ever tried. Shot in Norway, the stunt required Cruise to experience a bike off a cliff and base soar – one thing he stated he is needed to do since he was a child. 

Cruise, 60, is presently engaged on the two-part “Mission: Unimaginable – Useless Reckoning” movie. He is recognized for performing his personal stunts, however this one took years to plan, he stated in a video shared on Twitter. 

Within the video, author and director Christopher McQuarrie stated Cruise put collectively a “grasp plan” utilizing specialists to assist execute the stunt.

He had a 12 months of sky diving coaching, throughout which he was doing 30 jumps a day – greater than 500 skydives, stated Wade Eastwood, the movie’s stunt coordinator. He additionally had motocross coaching, doing over 13,000 motocross jumps. As soon as he obtained these abilities down, the manufacturing workforce created 3D fashions to attempt to predict how Cruise would fly via the air throughout the stunt so they might movie it.

Then, it got here time for Cruise to execute the stunt – driving a bike up a protracted ramp, which result in a cliff, launching off of it and base leaping to the underside. Cruise first jumped out of a helicopter over the cliff to observe, earlier than trying the total stunt for the cameras.

“The one issues you need to keep away from whereas doing a stunt like this are critical damage or demise,” base leaping coach Miles Daisher stated. “You are using a bike, which is fairly harmful, on prime of a ramp that is elevated off the bottom, so for those who fall off the ramp, that is fairly unhealthy. You are falling, so if you aren’t getting a clear exit from the bike and also you get tousled with it, or for those who do not open your parachute, you are not going to make it.”

The behind-the-scenes video present Cruise not solely execute the stunt as soon as, however six instances in someday. 

“Just about the most important stunt in cinematic historical past,” stated base leaping coach John DeVore. Viewers can see the ultimate product when half one of many movie premieres July 2023. The “Mission: Unimaginable” sequence is from Paramount Photos (a division of ViacomCBS).

Cruise has carried out numerous hair-raising stunts, together with leaping off of scaffolding whereas filming “Mission: Unimaginable 6” in 2017 – a stunt that left him injured and limping. 

Cruise has been in Europe filming the seventh and eight “Mission: Unimaginable” movies for a number of years. The seventh film was scheduled to premiere in November 2021, however the COVD-19 pandemic shut down manufacturing and was pushed to Might 27, 2022, according to Variety. The date was pushed a number of time after that, and the movie will now premier subsequent 12 months. 

Whereas taking pictures within the U.Ok. final 12 months, Cruise, who was touring by helicopter, wanted a spot to land, BBC News reports. He ended up touchdown in a household’s yard, after which let their kids go for a ride in the helicopter, making headlines.

Caitlin O’Kane

Caitlin O’Kane is a digital content material producer protecting trending tales for CBS Information and its excellent news model, The Uplift.