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Tom Cruise Rides Atop a Speeding Train Filming ‘Mission:

Not even a pandemic will cease Tom Cruise from risking life and limb for the sake of his craft. “Mission: Impossible 7” director Christopher McQuarrie posted an image on Instagram Sunday of the collection’ longtime star taking pictures a scene in Norway… on the highest of a transferring practice.

“Have you and Tom every ridden INSIDE a train? It’s quite lovely,” actor Glen Powell responded.

Footage of the scene was additionally taken by a bunch of bystanders and was later posted on TikTok. The fan footage exhibits Cruise specializing in the struggle atop a traditional European practice automotive, taking a second between takes to wave to the cheering onlookers, who realized what was occurring.

@tomaspangeloHalla Tom ##fyp ##norway ##missionimpossible ##norge ##hype♬ DET ER HAN SOM SITTER DER – Tomas Haugland Spangelo

Filming on “MI7” paused in February as a result of COVID-19 pandemic however resumed in September below particular social distancing tips. Those tips haven’t stopped the movie from holding again on its trademark stunts. Last month, extra fan footage caught Cruise driving a motorbike off a large ramp on the top of a canyon earlier than parachuting to security.

Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise are taking Mission: Impossible 7 to a different degree pic.twitter.com/eZaa5z8s5Y

— zach (@ZachMacieI) September 7, 2020

These stunts will be a part of the lengthy record of death-defying stunts Cruise has undertaken and not using a double over the course of his “Mission: Impossible” profession. Other stunts, embrace a 25,000-foot leap out of a army jet, holding his breath for over six minutes, personally flying a helicopter for a chase scene in a ravine, and clinging to the facet of a airplane because it takes off. At CinemaCon in 2018, co-star Simon Pegg joked that “the difference between you watching Tom in those action scenes and us watching him film them is that you know Tom lives in the end.”

“Mission: Impossible 7” is at present set for launch on Nov. 19, 2021. Check out extra of Cruise’s stunts within the gallery under.

‘Mission: Impossible’ – 10 Stunts That Make Us Think Tom Cruise Has a Death Wish (Photos)

No matter what the state of affairs, Tom Cruise is dedicated to creating his films really feel as practical as potential. But generally, it appears like he takes it a bit bit too far, to the purpose that his “Mission: Impossible” co-star Simon Pegg says that the largest distinction between watching him do the stunts on set and watching them within the movie is that the viewers “knows that Tom lives in the end.” Here are among the methods Cruise has risked life and limb for his craft.
The Last Samurai (2003)
After eight months of rigorous martial arts and katana coaching, Cruise climbed aboard a mechanical horse for a makeshift battlefield joust towards co-star Hiroyuki Sanada. But an error in Sanada’s mechanical horse precipitated it to cease farther than the crew supposed, and Cruise’s neck practically collided with Sanada’s sword. Decapitation? Who’s to say. But would Cruise have damaged his neck if that sword received any nearer? Quite probably.
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
In one armrest-clutching shot, Ethan Hunt stops a knife from being pushed proper into his eye. When it was filmed, Cruise shocked director John Woo when he mentioned he needed to be concerned within the shot with no particular results. Like “The Last Samurai,” the blade is dulled, however it’s connected to a cable to ensure that Cruise did not want that “Valkyrie” eyepatch eight years upfront.
“MI2” additionally had one among Cruise’s most well-known scenes: the opening of the movie the place Ethan climbs up a cliff with no gear. But whereas Cruise did have digitally eliminated gear he used throughout filming, he did tear a muscle in his shoulder whereas filming…