Director Christopher McQuarrie has detailed the ‘obscene’ stunts that will feature Mission Impossible 7, the latest installment of the popular franchise.
“Man, it’s obscene, it’s crazy. This stuff that Tom [Cruise] is doing in this picture, it’s off-the-scale nuts,” explained McQuarrie.
Mission Impossible
One of the stunts comes early in the film and involves Cruise’s Ethan Hunt on a pushbike.
“Yeah, this is something else, he’s in a residential street, okay? And he’s cycling along on just an ordinary pushbike and all-of-sudden, he just pulls the front wheel off the ground and cycles along only on the back wheel while holding the front wheel in the air!
“It’s insane! He does an actual wheelie for, like, thirty seconds or so. Crazy. Only Tom Cruise, man.”
Mission Possible
However, the wheelie is only the start of what promises to be the most exciting Mission yet. A scene in the Park had the director particularly excited.
“The swing scene. Like, wow!” he laughed.
“There’s Tom, and he’s on a swing and he swings it and swings it and it gets really high and then, get this, he jumps off.
“That’s it, he jumps off! And it’s really high! That’s all Tom as well, there’s no stuntman here.”
Mission Probable
Mission Impossible 7 is due in 2021 and it looks like the stunts could be even more spectacular the 2019’s Mission Impossible: Fallout which famously saw Cruise hold his breath under the water in the bath for ‘ages’ and climb a really tall tree in the garden.
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