MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8 Star Tom Cruise Hangs Upside Down From A Biplane For His Most Bats**t Insane Stunt Yet

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8 Star Tom Cruise Hangs Upside Down From A Biplane For His Most Bats**t Insane Stunt Yet

After taking a few months off, Tom Cruise is back at work training for Mission: Impossible 8, and it looks like he may have taken it up a notch or two as he preps for what might be his wildest stunt yet!

By RohanPatel - Dec 02, 2021 08:12 PM EST
Filed Under: Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible 8 hasn't started filming yet, but that doesn't mean Tom Cruise isn't already hard at work getting ready to shoot his biggest - and what could well be his wildest - Mission yet. 

He was snapped over the extended Thanksgiving holiday weekend in Cambridge, practicing an aerial stunt 2,000 feet in the air where he was seen climbing out of the cockpit of a yellow biplane and then hanging off the wings upside-down. There was another plane tailing them, presumably performing camera tests ahead of the film's expected production start date at the top of next year.

According to eyewitness reports, Cruise was harnessed to the wing, then dangled himself upside down as the plane flipped on its belly and left the 3x Academy Award-nominated actor sitting right-side-up. The pilot then proceeded to take the plane into a nosedive, and performed a spin, before Cruise finally made his way back into the cockpit.  

As for why they're using a World War II-era biplane for the stunt, well, that's not entirely clear just yet, but we can probably safely rule out time travel... or can we? 

While Cruise will certainly return for chapter eight, we don't know much about who may or may not be joining him, save for franchise newcomer Hayley Atwell (Avengers: EndgameCaptain America: The First Avenger), who will reprise her role as Grace from the upcoming Mission: Impossible 7, which wrapped principal photography back in September. 

It's also increasingly probable that Ving Rhames (Luther Stickell), Simon Pegg (Benji Dunn), Rebecca Ferguson (Ilsa Faust), Academy Award-nominee Vanessa Kirby (White Widow), and Henry Czerny (Eugene Kittridge) will also be back with some combination of Pom Klementieff (Avengers: Endgame; Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), Shea Whigham (Perry Mason; Marvel's Agent Carter), Esai Morales (TitansLa Bamba), Rob Delaney (Deadpool 2Hobbs & Shaw), Charles Parnell (Top Gun: MaverickTransformers: Age of Extinction), Indira Varma (Game of ThronesCarnival Row), Mark Gatiss (The FatherThe Favourite), and Cary Elwes (The Princess BrideSaw). 

Mission: Impossible 7 lights the fuse in theaters on September 30, 2022; followed by Mission: Impossible 8 on July 7, 2023.

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HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 12/2/2021, 8:58 PM
He is the best of the best.



Can't wait for the 7th movie, cause the 8th is already looking to be insane!
billnye69
billnye69 - 12/2/2021, 9:01 PM
Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 12/2/2021, 9:08 PM
Honestly like 70% of the reason I watch these movies is the fact that he does the stunts "for real". Now 90% of the reason I pay attention to the news for upcoming entries is im convinced hes eventually going to die making one lol
Hawkguy
Hawkguy - 12/2/2021, 9:28 PM
Do they have they a microphone on this guy while he does this shit? Probably just laughing, maniacally, the entire time...
KanchaCheena
KanchaCheena - 12/2/2021, 10:07 PM
What the [frick] is wrong with this guy?
Gandressmex
Gandressmex - 12/2/2021, 10:18 PM
And to think this guy is basically 60
MrDandy
MrDandy - 12/2/2021, 11:40 PM
Stop trying to kill the 60 year old man!!
toylled
toylled - 12/2/2021, 11:46 PM
I'm sick of this dickhead.
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 12/2/2021, 11:49 PM
Anybody else hope crazytomcruise dies a horrible and painful death in this one🙋?
Typhoon20
Typhoon20 - 12/3/2021, 11:06 AM
@THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - Perfect gif.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 12/3/2021, 12:13 AM
This is probably just a leisure activity we see Ethan Hunt doing between all the action
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 12/3/2021, 12:16 AM
Hanging on the biplane wing reminded me off this...

(The end of the video in particular, but everything up until it is gold!)
Typhoon20
Typhoon20 - 12/3/2021, 11:13 AM
If y'all think this is crazy watch some Jackie Chan stunts lmao, makes Cruise look like childs play. When you do a big Hollywood movie, you're practically doing the stunts as safe as possible. Insurance companies won't allow you to do the type of crazy stunts Jackie Chan would do abroad. I don't think Cruise is ever at risk imo, he's always doing them with safety in mind from the production team. At most he'll break an ankle or arm but that's about it.

Having said all of that...I love Tom. I know he's a bit crazy, to say the least. But man as an actor, he is one of my fav actors I'd watch regardless the film because he isn't chasing the award films you know isn't trying to be pretentious for acknowledgement and has good taste in blockbuster films. His blockbuster films are most of the time top of the line, high quality stuff. He always provides the entertainment to the audience and at his age, I salute him regardless of his personal life.
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