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EXCLUSIVE: Top Gun: Maverick Editor Says Tom Cruise’s Stunts Filmed in South Africa for Mission: Impossible 8 Will Be ‘Historical’
The publisher of Top Gun: Maverick says Tom Cruise’s stunts are in it Mission: Impossible 8 will be “historical.” Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part 1 and Part 2 originally planned to film back-to-back, but the plan was changed due to pandemic delays. Wrapped up after the main shooting Mission Impossible 7started production Impossible mission 8 (with a short break in between) and gearing up for a delayed release in 2023 and 2024 respectively. Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie helms both sequels, starring Tom Cruise as super-spy IMF agent Ethan Hunt, who once again undertakes a globe-spanning impossible mission of high-wire stunts largely performed by the actor himself.
while the first Mission: Impossible 7 Trailer was released alongside Top Gun: Maverick‘s debut, it contained very little dialogue or context as to what the story would be about. However, the trailer featured a variety of actors involved in the film, including regulars like Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, and Ving Rhames, as well as Henry Czerny, Esai Morales, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, and Cary Elwes. It has been reported that these last two chapters of the Impossible Mission The franchise will serve as a farewell to Cruise’s character, who will have played the character for 28 years at this point Impossible mission 8 releases.
In an exclusive interview with screen rantEditor Eddie Hamilton spoke about his work on the Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning sequels. While providing an update on the films’ progress, Hamilton said some of the stunts Cruise will perform in will occur Impossible mission 8 are “historical.” The editor spent three months in South Africa earlier this year while Cruise filmed the third act of the sequel. Read his comments below:
“Again working with Tom [Cruise] and Chris McQuarrie works on this sequence every day to evolve and make it better and better, and I swear some of the stuff he’s doing, I mean, it’s historic, man. I’m not exaggerating. You’ll watch it and you’ll leave, you know Tom did it again. He did it again. And honestly, to have a ringside seat is amazing.” Hamilton compared some of the sequences in the film to the canyon scene in Top Gun: MaverickSaying, “There will be some moments in Mission 8 where you have that same kind of ‘I can’t believe I’m seeing this’ experience. Two more years and you will see.”
Hamilton also confirmed this Mission: Impossible 7 and 8th were still filming, so work is still underway on the seventh chapter of the franchise, although principal photography is complete. Cruise recently released an update on the production of Impossible mission 8 at CinemaCon 2022, where the star was attached to a biplane and flown upside down; a stunt that will apparently be a part of it Impossible mission 8 in a way. Hamilton said that while the films will meet their new release dates, there will be no compromises on the quality of the action sequences and stunts that Cruise is famous for. The editor teased that the Impossible Mission will be continued “Another exceptional barnstorming cinematic experience.”
After the phenomenal success of Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick (for which Cruise also performed his own death-defying stunts), there’s no denying that the hype surrounding both of them is only going to increase Mission: Impossible 7 and 8th. To have loner Breaking box office records for Cruise is proof that the star is still a huge box office hit making the next two chapters in the making Impossible Mission Franchise incredibly well timed. It sounds like Cruise is constantly pushing the envelope from film to film Mission: Impossible 8‘s stunts may well be the perfect ending to his tenure in the franchise if it is indeed his final nod as Ethan Hunt.
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