Impossible – The Final Reckoning

From rushing trains to flying bikes, Tom Cruise has repeatedly tried to one-up himself with every successive Mission: Unimaginable film, generally breaking bones within the course of. So what may he presumably do in Mission: Unimaginable — The Ultimate Reckoning to boost the bar? Well, hanging off the side of an airplane again isn’t the one factor, apparently. The getting older Hollywood icon is now promising an underwater stunt not like any followers have seen earlier than.

“From Legend in 1985 to Mission: Unimaginable – The Ultimate Reckoning, I’ve been finding out and filming underwater sequences for over 40 years,” Cruise posted on X on Monday. “We now have at all times tried to push our filmmaking to the following degree. On this film McQ and I noticed a possibility to create an underwater sequence not like every other. We’re excited to share it with you.”

He additionally posted a brief behind-the-scenes clip of the film’s manufacturing that features scenes of him swimming by means of what appears to be the downed submarine housing the AI referred to as The Entity which is threatening the world from 2023’s Useless Reckoning. It appears like Christopher McQuarrie, who directed Rogue Nation and Fallout as nicely, had complete parts of the sub’s inside recreated for the scenes. Hopefully, along with no matter new methods Cruise finds to make his insurance coverage brokers squirm, the sequence doesn’t lean on post-production particular results to make an influence.

This isn’t Mission: Unimaginable’s first main water stunt. Rogue Nation noticed Cruise hold his breath for 6 minutes in a scene the place his character, Ethan Hunt, needed to unlock a hatch whereas swirling round an enormous server-cooling tank. And that scene solely happened after Cruise filmed Fringe of Tomorrow, for which McQuarrie helped write the script, which ends along with his character diving underwater beneath the Louvre Pyramid in Paris to kill an enormous alien.

The Ultimate Reckoning hits theaters in just some weeks on Might 23, and brings with it a whole lot of questions past whether or not Cruise and the franchise nonetheless have new methods up their sleeves. For one, there’s the query of how the film will make good on the numerous callbacks to earlier entries within the franchise teased within the trailers, and what it’s going to inform us about how Hunt got here to hitch the IMF within the first place, a plot thread hinted at in Useless Reckoning. The largest query of all, although, is whether or not this can be Cruise’s final Mission: Unimaginable film. Given his obsession with motion pictures, Hollywood, and his personal legacy on the field workplace, I one way or the other doubt it. No less than so long as Ultimate Reckoning does higher than its predecessor.

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