Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.”
New Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning behind-the-scenes video footage shows Tom Cruise practicing the film’s harrowing bi-plane scene.
The thrilling sequence takes place at the end of the third act of The Final Reckoning. In the scene, Cruise’s Impossible Mission Force Agent Ethan Hunt attempts to secure a device from the film’s main villain, Gabriel (Esai Morales), to hopefully put a stop to the self-aware artificial intelligence program The Entity. If the Entity isn’t stopped, it will begin launching missiles from all of the world’s nuclear arsenals.
During the scene, Ethan needs to fly a bi-plane and chase down another bi-plane that Gabriel is flying, and then transfer himself from his plane to wrestle the device from the madman.
Paramount Pictures on Monday released an intense scene involving a helicopter with a camera attached, which shows Cruise rehearsing in mid-air how he abandons his red bi-plane in the film to transfer to the yellow bi-plane to reach Morales’ character.
The already scary footage is made even more intense when a wheel rig attached to the bottom of the chopper that’s fashioned to look like the bottom of the yellow bi-plane bumps the top of the red bi-plane as Cruise is holding on to its wing.
The end of the 1-minute, 11-second clip shows Cruise safely returning to the ground with a smile on his face. The full behind-the-scenes segment can be seen below.
‘Mission: Impossible’ Held Strong In Its Second Weekend At The Box Office
The live-action version of Disney’s 2002 animated film classic Lilo & Stitch, which opened against Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning on May 23, topped the domestic box office over the weekend with $61.8 million in ticket sales from 4,410 North American theaters.
The Final Reckoning, however, held firm in the No. 2 spot with $27.2 million from 3,861 theaters.
The Final Reckoning — which is presumed to be Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie’s last Mission: Impossible movie — has made $122.6 million domestically and $231.2 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $353.8 million to date. The film had a $400 million production budget before prints and advertising, according to The Numbers.
The Final Reckoning is the eighth Mission: Impossible film in the espionage thriller franchise that began in 1996.
Also starring Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Angela Bassett, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Henry Czerny and Nick Offerman, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is now in theaters.
