Tom Cruise collapsed a Guinness World Record while filming a Mission: Impossible 8 stunt.
Mission: Impossible 8, besides known arsenic Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, is now playing successful United States theaters. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, nan movie erstwhile again sees Cruise reprise his domiciled arsenic Ethan Hunt.
Cruise is known for doing galore of his ain stunts successful nan Mission: Impossible franchise, and, while filming The Final Reckoning, he managed to break a Guinness World Record.
What Guinness World Record did Tom Cruise break while filming Mission: Impossible 8?
Cruise collapsed nan Guinness World Records title for “most burning parachute jumps by an individual,” according to nan charismatic Guinness World Records website.
Watch a featurette video highlighting nan stunt present (watch much trailers and clips):
“The prima leapt retired of a chopper 16 times while strapped to a parachute pre-soaked successful substance and lit ablaze, earlier cutting distant nan charred remnants of nan first chute and safely deploying a backup,” nan Guinness World Records website’s article further reads. “No different character aliases stuntman has travel adjacent to that magnitude of death-defying drops, and his dedication was rewarded pinch nan grounds title connected 4 June.
“…The parachute was pre-soaked successful substance and lit ablaze, and aft his life-net incinerated, Tom would trim distant nan burning cloth and deploy a backup chute to break his landing. But erstwhile skydiving from a moving vehicle, clip is of nan principle – and nan parachute could only pain for 2.5 to 3 seconds earlier wholly disintegrating. With truthful galore moving pieces successful play, Tom and the Mission: Impossible crew completed fiery 16 drops successful nan quest for nan cleanable action shot. And successful immoderate of these jumps, he moreover has a 50 lb snorri camera rig attached to his assemblage to seizure a close-up look of nan exhilarating fall.”