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After Tom Cruise secured himself to the side of a plane as it took off for Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, and after he spent much of the making of Top Gun: Maverick hurtling around inside one, you’d think he and Christopher McQuarrie would have had it up to here with planes. Thankfully, as the star/director turn their attention of shooting Mission: Impossible 8 on location in South Africa, that doesn’t seem to be the case. “We’re shooting the aerial sequence that’s pretty spectacular,” confirms McQuarrie, who has taken time out from behind the camera to offer Empire an update on the shoot. The sequence in question involves Cruise climbing out onto the wing of a bright yellow World War II biplane, before handing upside-down.
Cruise initially rehearsed the stunt in Cambridge before heading to South Africa to shoot. “It’s like Dick Tracy; it’s all primary colours,” explains McQuarrie of the sequence, which involves multiple aircraft. “One plane is yellow, one plane is red. Africa is green, because it’s [the] raining season, and the sky is unbelievably blue. I’ve never shot anything like it.”
Of course, you may have figured out by now that Mission: Impossible 7 still isn’t with us. That’s movies has been delayed until 2023, giving McQuarrie and Cruise a chance to get a head-start on the eighth installment. “There are parts of 7 we have yet to shoot,” chuckles McQuarrie. It turns out that the claim that they had completed principal photography “wasn’t accurate”.
“There are no accurate terms for what we’ve been going through,” he explains. “There’s not a model for this anywhere. Every day you’re making both movies. There’s a scene I wrote in 8 and realised, ‘Wow, this would be better if we set this stuff in 7.’ So I was working on 8 in the morning and then found out I’d been working on 7 all day.”
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