MISSION IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE NATION. In the fifth part of the saga directed by Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise does the impossible: jump on the wreckage of a plane in full flight.
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Incredible but true. In Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, the fifth installment in the franchise, Ethan Hunt tries to enter an A400M, a military plane… while it is taking off. The scene is already impressive on screen. It is even more so in real life, when we know that Tom Cruise performed his stunt himself, as he does almost systematically.
In 2015, Airbus Military published the video of the interpreter of a protagonist of Mission Impossible 5 clinging to the Airbus A400M Atlas, scene shot on October 31, 2014. The opportunity to learn more about the secrets of filming of this scene. It took three months for the crews to prepare the fixtures so that Tom Cruise and the cameras could be attached and filming could proceed safely, and several tests were carried out beforehand.
“Tom Cruise was hanging on the side of the plane. He was held by an ingenious system of cables fixed through the parachute drop door and the hold, an imperceptible trick on the screen”, specify the teams in an article from L’Express. However, Tom Cruise had to comply with difficult conditions to shoot this scene of Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation. “One of the biggest physical challenges for Tom was to fight against the cold. Some days, it was barely 3°C, the plane was flying at more than 240 km/h, at 1000 meters altitude. It is a very hostile environment for him who was hanging on the door of the plane”, describes Kieran Daly, spokesperson for Airbus Defense and Space, in an interview with The Express. In all, Tom Cruise will perform 8 takes of about ten minutes each time.
Synopsis – Ethan Hunt must destroy the Syndicate, a new criminal organization, lawless. But the IMF could well know its end if it does not find new strategies.