From rushing trains to flying bikes, Tom Cruise has constantly tried to one-up himself with every successive Mission: Inconceivable film, typically breaking bones within the course of. So what might he probably do in Mission: Inconceivable — The Last Reckoning to lift the bar? Properly, hanging off the aspect of an airplane once more isn’t the one factor, apparently. The ageing Hollywood icon is now promising an underwater stunt not like any followers have seen earlier than.
“From Legend in 1985 to Mission: Inconceivable – The Last Reckoning, I’ve been finding out and filming underwater sequences for over 40 years,” Cruise posted on X on Monday. “We now have all the time tried to push our filmmaking to the subsequent stage. On this film McQ and I noticed a possibility to create an underwater sequence not like some 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 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 seems to be like Christopher McQuarrie, who directed Rogue Nation and Fallout as nicely, had whole 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: Inconceivable’s first main water stunt. Rogue Nation noticed Cruise maintain his breath for six 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 Last Reckoning hits theaters in just some weeks on Could 23, and brings with it a number 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 various callbacks to earlier entries within the franchise teased within the trailers, and what it should inform us about how Hunt got here to affix 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 might be Cruise’s final Mission: Inconceivable film. Given his obsession with films, Hollywood, and his personal legacy on the field workplace, I by some means doubt it. At the very least so long as Last Reckoning does higher than its predecessor.
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