Tom Cruise despatched a thank-you message to followers of Top Gun: Maverick within the Cruise-iest manner potential: a death-defying stunt.
In a brand new video posted to the Paramount Pictures YouTube channel on Monday, Cruise, seen hanging out of a airplane, thanks individuals for going to the film theatre.
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“Hey everyone,” begins Cruise, clad in goggles and earplugs. “Here we are over stunning South Africa, where we’re filming Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Parts 1 and 2.”
“I didn’t want the year to end without thanking you all for coming out to the theatres, and thank you for supporting Top Gun: Maverick,” stated Cruise, 60.
When the digicam pans to the suitable of Cruise, it reveals Christopher McQuarrie, the director and screenwriter of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, additionally within the airplane.
McQuarrie playfully encourages Cruise to finish his stunt, and says, “We really gotta roll, we gotta get the shot.”
When Cruise asks if McQuarrie would be a part of him for the skydive, the director replies, “Not on your life. Good luck.”
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With a single fist bump to McQuarrie, Cruise — recognized for doing his personal film stunts — jumps from the airplane and begins his free-fall.
“Thank you for supporting Top Gun: Maverick, and as always, thank you for allowing us to entertain you. It truly is the honour of a lifetime,” Cruise says as he descends again to Earth.
After a couple of seconds, Cruise says he’s “running out of altitude” and desires viewers “a safe and happy holiday.”
“We’ll see you at the movies!” Cruise smiles earlier than saluting and spinning away from the digicam towards blue water under.
In August, Top Gun: Maverick grew to become the sixth-highest grossing movie of all time on the American field workplace. CNBC claimed the movie made US$685.1 million within the U.S. and $1.4 billion globally. It is Cruise’s first billion-dollar film.
Also on Monday, Cruise was featured in one other video on the Paramount Pictures YouTube channel. In the video, titled “The Biggest Stunt in Cinema History,” Cruise drives a motorbike off a cliff and right into a base leap.
Cruise stated the stunt, which the Mission: Impossible franchise has been engaged on for years, is one he’s needed to do “since I was a little kid.”
The greater than nine-minute video outlines all the technical coaching and analysis obligatory for a stunt that can be seen within the seventh Mission: Impossible instalment.
Cruise stated the most important challenges in a stunt as giant as this one is “finding the cameras, it’s the amount of preparations and it’s weather.”
Using a drone outfitted with digicam lenses, the group efficiently captured footage of Cruise executing the stunt six occasions.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One can be launched in theatres in July 2023.
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