Cruise Hangs Out On A Stearman

The next Mission Impossible movie Final Reckoning has a lot of aircraft involvement, including star Tom Cruise hanging from a Stearman.

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Key Takeaways:

  • Tom Cruise performs extreme aerial stunts, including sequences on two Stearman aircraft, for his role in the upcoming film *Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning*.
  • The eighth movie in the franchise appears designed to outdo the aerial stunts of its predecessor, *Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning*.
  • While *Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning* earned $571 million, it was considered financially "lukewarm" given its high production costs.
  • Cruise is non-committal about his future as Ethan Hunt beyond this new installment.
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Actor Tom Cruise gets some serious hang time in his next Mission Impossible role, this time with sequences on two Stearmans. The 62-year-old Cruise is featured in a new trailer for Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning. The stunts were shot in England. But he’s not just hanging around the classics. His character Ethan Hunt apparently gets control of an aircraft carrier and some stick time in a fighter in his normal quest to save the world.

Although his last effort, Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning, had a number of aerial stunts, it would appear the follow-on, which is the eighth in the franchise, tries to out-stunt that effort. The seventh movie drew $571 million at the box office, but that was considered lukewarm given the high cost of making the movies. Cruise didn’t want to discuss details or his future as Hunt when asked about it by Empire. “You gotta see the movie,” he said. “It’s a hard thing for me to discuss at the moment, because it really is something that you have to experience.”

Russ Niles

Russ Niles is Editor-in-Chief of AVweb. He has been a pilot for 30 years and joined AVweb 22 years ago. He and his wife Marni live in southern British Columbia where they also operate a small winery.
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