Tom Cruise clings to plane fuselage in 'Mission: Impossible 8' trailer

Tom Cruise performs his own stunt on a plane in the trailer for "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning".

The distributor released the trailer on April 7, revealing the actor's new action scenes. In the video, the actor performs many dangerous scenes: floating on a plane, trapped in a submarine, jumping from a fighter plane into the sea.

Above Empire , Tom Cruise talked about the danger of the scene hanging from the plane: "At speeds above 120 to 130 miles per hour, my body would not receive oxygen. So I had to train myself to breathe. There were times when I fainted and could not get into the cockpit," the actor said.

In the nearest part - Dead Reckoning Part 1 , Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) and a group of IMF agents must stop an artificial intelligence (AI) program called the Entity before it falls into the wrong hands. On film forums, many viewers believe that in this project, Tom Cruise's character can cooperate with the Entity through a high-tech mask to save the world.

According to the magazine Empire , one of the most challenging scenes was filmed in an 8.5 million liter water tank, where the character Ethan is caught in a whirlpool, trapped in the Sevastopol submarine wreck. Throughout the scene, Cruise wore a suit with a special mask, a glowing helmet. However, he could only wear the oxygen supply device for 10 minutes. Not stopping there, Cruise pushed the time limit to the maximum, affecting his muscles and physique. He said: "I was breathing my own carbon dioxide. You overcome those obstacles but still have to stay focused."

Looking back on the filming process, director Christopher McQuarrie said it was a "challenging and terrifying" experience. Besides the pressure on Tom Cruise, ensuring absolute safety for the actors was the top priority. According to Variety , with a budget of nearly 400 million USD, the work promises to bring a blockbuster that meets both technical requirements and content quality.

Tom Cruise in the movie "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning". Photo: Paramount Pictures

In addition to a series of new action sequences, the video calls back to highlights from previous installments, like the scene where Ethan hangs from the ceiling from episode Mission: Impossible first; the Kremlin explosion, the fall from the Burj Khalifa tower in Ghost Protocol ; the scene of the agents being anesthetized, the jump flying motorcycle in part seven and the helicopter stunt in Fallout .

The film stars Hannah Waddingham, Henry Czerny, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff and Vanessa Kirby. Actress Angela Bassett also returns as CIA director Erika Sloane, a character first seen in Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018).

Cruise has said he wants to make a series of films. Mission: Impossible whether 80 or 100 years old. However, according to The Hollywood Reporter reported that Paramount Pictures wanted to promote the eighth installment as the series finale.

Mission: Impossible is a famous American spy television series, aired from 1966-1973, 1988-1989. In 1996, director Brian De Palma decided to bring the story of the intelligence organization Impossible Mission Force (IMF) to the big screen, starring Tom Cruise. To date, the seven films have earned more than four billion USD, making it the 17th highest-grossing film series in the history of world cinema.

Tom Cruise, 63, is 1.7 m tall and weighs about 68 kg. The actor is known as the "ageless man" in Hollywood, his appearance has not changed much over time. The actor does not use social networks and has rarely shared about his personal life since his tumultuous divorce with Katie Holmes in 2012. According to SCMP , Tom Cruise is the highest-paid actor in the world in 2022, in the film industry alone.

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