Paramount saved its biggest star for last at Wednesday’s CinemaCon presentation. Pioneer of the Year Tom Cruise, with director Chris McQuarrie and co-stars Simon Pegg, Angela Bassett, and Henry Cavill, walked theater owners behind the scenes of his latest outrageous “Mission: Impossible” stunt. “I’m scared to see the dailies,” admitted new chairman Jim Gianopulos.
For “M:i – Fallout” (July 27), besides various hair-raising helicopter and motorcycle stunts in the streets of Paris including a rapid swing against traffic around the Arc de Triomphe — Cruise wanted to perform a high-altitude skydive from over 25,000 feet. So he and his director devised a sequence that was “physically possible without killing him,” said McQuarrie.
It took a year and building the largest wind tunnel in the world to prepare. The production designer came up with a special glass helmet with oxygen and lights so you could see the movie star who was performing skydives...
For “M:i – Fallout” (July 27), besides various hair-raising helicopter and motorcycle stunts in the streets of Paris including a rapid swing against traffic around the Arc de Triomphe — Cruise wanted to perform a high-altitude skydive from over 25,000 feet. So he and his director devised a sequence that was “physically possible without killing him,” said McQuarrie.
It took a year and building the largest wind tunnel in the world to prepare. The production designer came up with a special glass helmet with oxygen and lights so you could see the movie star who was performing skydives...
- 4/26/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
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