Cruise Amps Up Aviation To Bolster Next Mission Impossible Movie
Airplane stunts dominate the new Mission Impossible movie.
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Tom Cruise has revived an old trick to try to restore the Mission Impossible franchise to its former bottom line glory: He's adding a bunch of airplane stunts. The two-minute trailer for Mission: Impossible–The Final Reckoning features a parade of aviation scenes and it looks like Cruise is co-starring with a Stearman, which he spends some time hanging from. There's also a glimpse of a DC-3, FA-18s, some kind of CG tiltrotor and a futuristic jet transport.
According to pajiba.com the last Mission Impossible movie was up against Barbie and Oppenheimer for the lucrative summer blockbuster season and it came up $200 million short of the revenue earned by the previous Ethan Hunt epic. It also didn't have much in the way of aviation unless BASE jumping from a motorcycle is considered aviation.
