Tom Cruise broke a Guinness World Record while filming a Mission: Impossible 8 stunt.
In the USA, Mission: Impossible 8, or Mission: Impossible – A Matter of Life and Death, is currently running in cinemas. This time around, it’s directed by Christopher McQuarrie, with Tom Cruise returning to portray Ethan Hunt once more.
In the Mission: Impossible series, it’s well-known that Tom Cruise often performs his own daring feats, and during the production of The Final Reckoning, he even set a new record in the Guinness World Records.
What Guinness World Record did Tom Cruise break while filming Mission: Impossible 8?
According to the official Guinness World Records site, Cruise set a new record for the greatest number of skydives with burning parachutes performed by a single person.
Watch a featurette video highlighting the stunt here (watch more trailers and clips):
The article from Guinness World Records states that an actor leaped from a helicopter 16 times while wearing a parachute soaked in fuel and set alight. After igniting, he detached the charred remains of the initial chute and successfully deployed a backup. This number of dangerous falls surpasses any other stunt performed by an actor or stuntman to date. On June 4th, his bravery was recognized with the record title.
…In this scenario, the parachute was previously saturated with fuel and ignited, following which Tom’s safety harness burned out. Subsequently, he would sever the flaming fabric and activate an emergency chute to cushion his landing. However, due to the urgency involved in skydiving from a moving vehicle, the parachute could only remain alight for 2.5 to 3 seconds before disintegrating entirely. Given the multitude of factors at play, Tom and the Mission: Impossible team executed sixteen perilous jumps in pursuit of the ideal action sequence. Remarkably, during some of these leaps, he even carried a 50 lb camera rig strapped to his body to capture close-ups of the thrilling descent.
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