'Mission: Impossible 5' News: Tom Cruise Films Airborne Stunt for the Movie
Those who are familiar with Tom Cruise's work know that the actor prefers to do his own stunts. In 2011, the actor scaled the world's tallest building, the 123-story Burj Khalifa in Dubai, for "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol." For the same film, he ran across moving vehicles and mounted a car while in the middle of a terrible desert sand storm.
For the fifth installment of the "Mission: Impossible" franchise, it appears that Cruise is still very much eager to do his own stunt work as the actor was photographed on Sunday while filming an action sequence for the movie. Cruise was photographed hanging from the side of a moving A400 M flying over the British countryside for "Mission: Impossible 5" dressed in a tailored grey suit.
Director Brad Bird spoke to The New York Daily News about the stunt.
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"One night, after one of the earliest shooting days, I bolted up in bed realizing that we had our star dangling about a mile up in the air on a thin wire and my brain was screaming, 'What the hell are we doing,'" he said. "The whole thing was one, extended, hair-raising moment but we planned well."
On Monday, Cruise was seen filming additional action scenes as he fought on top of the four-engine military plane. This time, the plane was not airborne, but production filmed the action sequence to look as if he was at high altitude, according to Daily Mail.
The actor, dressed in the same suit from the day before, was on the aircraft while gusts of wind blown by a hovering helicopter mimicked the same conditions of being up in the air. The website reports that although he had to occasionally steady himself for balance on the aircraft, the actor remained cool and calm throughout filming.
"Mission: Impossible 5" is slated to premiere in cinemas in 2015.
