Paramount has released a brand new train stunt featurette from Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, offering a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most show-stopping sequences in a film full chock full of them.
Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie walk us through that pulse-pounding third act, which features an epic showdown between Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and Gabriel (Esai Morales) aboard a moving train. Then, there's the big escape for Hunt and Grace (Hayley Atwell), who have to make their way through multiple cabins in a tension-filled set piece that will have you on the absolute edge of your seat!
Dead Reckoning Part One is currently boasting an astounding 98% Certified Fresh rating on review aggregator RottenTomatoes, which is a career-best for Cruise. In our review, we said, "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is the undisputed blockbuster movie event of the summer! Tom Cruise delivers yet another action movie masterpiece, packed with jaw-dropping spectacle, pulse-pounding action, heartfelt emotion, awe-inspiring performances, and an exhilarating chemistry opposite new leading lady Hayley Atwell that’ll have you begging for more."
In addition to Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt), the cast features Hayley Atwell (Grace), Ving Rhames (Luther Stickell), Simon Pegg (Benji Dunn), Rebecca Ferguson (Ilsa Faust), Vanessa Kirby (Alanna Mitsopolis/White Widow), Esai Morales (Gabriel), Pom Klementieff (Paris), Mariela Garriga (Marie), Henry Czerny (Eugene Kittridge), Shea Whigham (Jasper Briggs), Greg Tarzan Davis (Degas), Charles Parnell, Frederick Schmidt (Zola Mitsopolis), Cary Elwes (Denlinger), Mark Gatiss, Indira Varma, and Rob Delaney.
Check out the new train stunt featurette below:
In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One lights the fuse in theaters on July 12, 2023; with the follow-up, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two, set to arrive the following year on June 28, 2024.