Watch Tom Cruise Perform a HALO Jump for Mission Impossible: Fallout (VIDEO)
Mission Impossible: Fallout doesn’t hit theaters until July 27, but we’re already getting a look at what is likely to be one of the film’s signature stunts. And once again, it involves Tom Cruise risking his life.
Cruise, 55, has already suffered a broken ankle on the set of the film, when a jumping stunt went wrong. So why tempt fate by performing one of the world’s most dangerous parachute jumps: a HALO jump? Because if you’re Tom Cruise and you’re making a Mission Impossible film, you deliver the goods with your stunts. Or something.
A HALO jump stands for “high altitude, low opening,” and is performed by military personnel who want to jump into enemy territory undetected. For Mission Impossible, that meant Cruise had to jump from an altitude of 25,000 feet, which is dangerous enough, but it also meant plummeting to Earth at 200 miles an hour and opening your chute at only 2,000 feet. That only leaves seconds between a safe jump and death.
But hey. it’s Ethan Hunt, so it’s all good.
Watch this new featurette and see how they pulled it off.
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