Tom Cruise Attempts Biggest Stunt in Cinema History in M:I 7 (Video)

Paramount Pictures released Monday an extended behind-the-scenes featurette offering a look at the set of Tom Cruise’s forthcoming "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning".

The clip showed Cruise at work with his extended production team as they prep for what he describes as the “biggest stunt In cinema history.”

“This is far and away the most dangerous thing we’ve ever attempted,” Christopher McQuarrie, writer and director of the project, says at the opening of the footage. 

Cruise noted that they have been working on this for years, adding: "We’re gonna shoot it in Norway, and it’s gonna be a motorcycle jump off a clip into a base jump. I’ve wanted to do it since I was a little kid. It all comes down to one thing: The audience.” 

The stunt involves the acclaimed actor riding a motorcycle at pace over the side of a cliff, at which point he leans into a base jump through the sky. 

The footage also showed the grueling prep Cruise undertook to execute the scene, including over 500 skydives and 13,000 motocross jumps.

McQuarrie shared that the only thing that scares him more is what he has planned for the next movie in the Mission: Impossible franchise.

"Dead Reckoning" is the seventh installment in the franchise, which stars Cruise as Ethan Hunt, a special agent of the Impossible Missions Force. 

The behind-the-scenes clip is the first in-depth look at the project, currently set for a July 2023 release.