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Tom Cruise praised the UAE’s support in creating one of his most dangerous stunts yet for the Mission Impossible: Fallout movie, which is filmed in Abu Dhabi, among other locations.
Cruise had to jump out of a plane at 7,600 metres over the Abu Dhabi desert and wait until he was below 600m to pull his parachute for the stunt.
It took more than 100 jumps to film the scene, as it had to be filmed as close to sunset as possible, which gives the crew just three minutes a day to get the perfect shot.
“We needed the UAE,” said Cruise. “Had they not stepped in, we would not have been able to accomplish the sequence.”The stunt was being planned for a year, and filmmakers had to commission one of the world’s largest wind tunnels so Cruise could practice on the ground first.
Halo jumps can presumably result in death, hypoxia, or insanity, according to experts. “You start losing your mind, but you don’t realise it,” said Ray Armstrong, the stunt’s chief instructor for the movie. Mission Impossible: Fallout will be released across the UAE on July 27.
The @Missionfilm twitter account tweeted “Our stunts keep getting higher in altitude and lower in oxygen. Go behind the scenes of one of @TomCruise‘s most dangerous stunts yet, the halo jump. #MissionImpossible”
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