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Mission Impossible 8’s underwater scenes will surpass previous Tom Cruise films -TGN

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  • Christopher McQuarrie is teasing an upcoming underwater sequence in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two that will surpass previous underwater action sequences in Edge of Tomorrow and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.

  • Earlier underwater scenes left Tom Cruise and McQuarrie feeling “unsatisfied” and like they could do better.

  • The only other stunt revealed from Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two so far is Cruise hanging from an upside down plane.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning part two director Christopher McQuarrie is teasing an underwater sequence in the upcoming movie that will be an improvement on the two major underwater scenes Tom Cruise has already shot. Following the release of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning part one earlier this month, Tom Cruise will return as super-spy Ethan Hunt in a sequel due out next summer. The upcoming eighth film in the long-running franchise is expected to continue the story of its most recent sequel, following Hunt as he works to take down the AI ​​menace known as The Entity.

Now, way ahead of the Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning part two release date, McQuarrie teases at least one of the action sequences audiences can expect in a recent interview with Collider. The director reveals that the upcoming sequence will enhance the underwater action you see Edge of tomorrow And Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Watch McQuarrie’s full response below:

“Tom and I are constantly evaluating our own work and wondering how we could have done better. We’ve done underwater sequences before. We worked underwater in Edge of Tomorrow, and we worked underwater in Rogue Nation, and we left very dissatisfied with those sequences. And we analyze why we were dissatisfied. What were all the factors working against us? The largest being, no real knowledge in that area. Everything you look at in Dead Reckoning is the application of knowledge from previous sequences.”

What to expect from Dead Reckoning Part Two’s Stunts

The approach Cruise and McQuarrie take with each new one Mission Impossible movie is to surpass anything they’ve done before, which becomes especially evident with the breathtaking motorcycle cliff jump and workout in Mission: Impossible 7. The upcoming eighth movie is expected to go even further, featuring Cruise’s most dangerous stunts yet.

While there are still many questions about the upcoming movie, set photos have revealed at least one Cruise stunt that will seemingly feature in the movie, showing the star clinging to the outside of a biplane over South Africa. Outside Mission: Impossible 8‘s airplane stunt and the newly revealed water sequence, but details about the stunts in the upcoming movie are hard to come by.

Filming on Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning part two has been partially completed and production has been confirmed to have been shot aboard an aircraft carrier in the Adriatic Sea and also in an Arctic location. While it’s unclear what stunts Cruise filmed in these locations, the next installment at the very least promises to have some jaw-dropping vistas to accompany the action. The ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike could occur Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning part two filming resumes as planned this fall, but the sequel already sounds like quite an experience.

Source: Collider

Main release dates

  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning part two