Tom Cruise dangles from an airplane in a new Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning behind-the-scenes video. Featuring Christopher McQuarrie back in the director’s chair, the upcoming installment in the long-running Mission: Impossible franchise sees Cruise back as Ethan Hunt, finishing the fight against Gabriel (Esai Morales) and the Enтιтy. The Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning trailer has already teases some of the stunts to come from the action movie, including a sequence involving two biplanes that was filmed in the skies of South Africa.

Cruise now takes to Instagram to provide a new look at Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning‘s plane stunt, sharing a video that shows a behind-the-scenes look at how part of the sequence was filmed. The video is sH๏τ from the inside of a filming helicopter, with McQuarrie watching footage on a monitor of Cruise, tethered to a safety rope, hanging on for dear life from an upside down yellow biplane. The camera then swings around to show Cruise through the helicopter window. Check it out below:

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What’s Been Revealed About The Final Reckoning’s Biplane Sequence

With each past Mission: Impossible movie, Cruise has put his life on the line in the name of entertaining audiences, and that certainly doesn’t look to be changing with The Final Reckoning. Some of the plane stunt has already been shown off in the first trailer for the movie, which shows Cruise running to catch up to the yellow plane on a dirt runway, as well as Cruise dangling from the cockpit of the red plane. It’s not clear, however, what the context of the biplane sequence is or who the pilots are.

While the plane stunt is shaping up to be one of the film’s standout set pieces, McQuarrie recently teased to Empire that there’s another stunt in the movie that surpᴀsses both the plane sequences and the underwater submarine sequence. The director doesn’t reveal what the stunt in question is, but saying it tops the biplane set piece definitely raises some major questions about just what Ethan gets up to following the Mission: Impossible – ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Reckoning ending.

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Nobody Does Action Like Tom Cruise

Even without a score and all the trappings of a theatrically-released Mission: Impossible movie, the behind-the-scenes video captures the intensity of Cruise’s biplane stunt. McQuarrie’s reaction as he watches Cruise on the monitor speaks to the real risk involved in what Cruise does, and the filmmaker does seem to have some genuine worry on his face. Clearly, though, there’s a great deal of trust between Cruise and McQuarrie and this creative pairing has given audiences some truly breathtaking action set pieces.

With Cruise now 62 years old, it’s not clear how much longer he will physically be able to do these types of stunts. It’s also not clear if the upcoming film will be the franchise’s last. If Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is the last ride, though, it certainly looks like Cruise and McQuarrie have pulled out all the stops.

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