Tom Cruise Tackles Speedflying in New 'Mission: Impossible' BTS Clip

Tom Cruise is bringing more death-defying stunts than ever before to 'MissionImpossible Dead Reckoning Part One.'

In a new behind-the-scenes clip from the upcoming action flick, Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie headed to the Lake District in northwest England to film the franchise star participating in "one of the most dangerous sports in the world," speedflying.

While skydivers look for an open field to land in comfortably, for speedflyers, the point is to accelerate and spiral as close as possible to the mountains and rock formations -- just feet off the ground -- before landing at a high rate of speed.crew had to construct their own gimbal system, rigging up two cameras to track Cruise's rapid descent down the mountains, reaching speeds of up to 50 miles per hour.

Cruise sat down with ET's Nischelle Turner in Rome last week to preview the upcoming action film, and he shared an interesting fact about the production, revealing that the Dead Reckoning Part One"Well, we know either we're gonna continue with the film or we're not," Cruise said with a laugh of planning the death-defying stunt."Let's know day one...

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