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8. Tom Cruise's Big Stunt Involves A Helicopter - Mission: Impossible 6
Though he scaled the Burj Khalifa in Ghost Protocol and strapped himself to the outside of a plane in Rogue Nation - both mind-blowing feats - Tom Cruise's biggest stunt is apparently still to come. Get hyped.
In an interview with Collider earlier this year, Mission: Impossible 6 producer David Ellison had everyone asking "how?" when he mentioned that Cruise's work in the forthcoming sequel will be the most impressive thing the actor has ever done.
What Tom is doing in this movie I believe will top anything that’s come before. It is absolutely unbelievable - he’s been training for a year. It is going to be, I believe, the most impressive and unbelievable thing that Tom Cruise has done in a movie, and he has been working on it since right after Rogue Nation came out. It’s gonna be mind-blowing.”
Naturally, everyone who read that quote began to wonder exactly what this mega-stunt will involve, but thanks to some on-set photographs, a piece of the puzzle may have been filled in.
According to several outlets (like Collider), the film's director - Christopher McQuarrie - took to Twitter in mid-June to tease that this sequence was about to start filming (McQuarrie's Twitter account was recently suspended, so these tweets are unobtainable).
And, around the same time, he posted some images on Instagram of what appears to be a helicopter, one of which was accompanied by the caption "Today's forecast: Holy s**t."
Given McQuarrie's rather blunt description of the day's events, it seems like the scenes that were shot with this helicopter were hugely exciting. Was this the day he shot Tom Cruise's epic stunt? Is this stunt helicopter-based? We'll probably have to wait for the first trailer to find out...