Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt HALO jumping out of a plane in Mission: Impossible - Fallout
The Big Picture It all began with 1996's Mission: Impossible, when Tom Cruise was chased down the streets of Prague by an exploding aquarium, dangled acrobatically from wires, and went toe-to-toe with a wind machine on top of a miniature train. Having made his mark as a bona fide action star, Cruise, in the years and sequels that followed, consistently raised the stakes of performing death-defying stunts as IMF superspy Ethan Hunt in the long-running film series.
The HALO Jump Took 12 Days To Shoot Close After painstaking preparation, which included rehearsing in one of the world's largest wind tunnels, Tom Cruise, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, and an army of crew members took to the skies over Abu Dhabi to shoot one HALO jump after another.
Once the magic hour lighting was ideal at 25,000 feet, a camera operator leaped from the C-17, falling backwards, with Cruise just seconds behind. To assist the operator who was donning a head-mounted camera, the actor had to secure and maintain a free-falling position that put him within three feet of the lens, thereby ensuring the image would remain in proper focus. At the same time, he had to be mindful of not colliding with the camera operator or the stunt performer standing in for Walker .
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