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Mission Impossible director honors Tom Cruise's birthday by sharing photo of him hanging from a plane in the upcoming movie

Saucycarpdog

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Tom Cruise's 60th Birthday Honored by 'M:I' Director, Wild Plane Stunt

Tom Cruise wasn't born on the Fourth of July, but came close -- and on his special day, a filmmaking partner is honoring him by basically saying ... never change, you nutty bastard.
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Tom Cruise wasn't born on the Fourth of July, but came close -- and on his special day, a filmmaking partner is honoring him by basically saying ... never change, you nutty bastard.

The actor turned 60 Sunday, and to ring in the milestone ... director Christopher McQuarrie posted a wild photo to celebrate TC and the death-defying stunts that he still carries out himself to this day ... including on the forthcoming 'Mission: Impossible' movie(s).

As you can see, there's Tommy dangling from the wing of an old-timey biplane ... without anyone in the cockpit, it seems. Just Tom hanging on solo, without much assistance.

McQuarrie didn't add much context to this pic -- other than wishing Tom a happy 60th -- but it's pretty obvious this is from either "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One" or 'Part Two' ... both of which CMQ is helming with Tom in the driver's seat.
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Tom is insane.
 
halcali

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i felt my diaphram move when I saw this photo... not in a million years, not for billions of dollars, not for all the Ninja Turtle comics...

(Happy Birthday, Tom)
 
NSA

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Jokes on the photo, the Cruise Missile doesn't even need a plane.
 
Bessy67

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Dude is nuts. I was flabbergasted the other day when I found out that the scene with him hanging off the door of a jumbo jet taking off was real and it took them multiple takes to get the final shot
 
big_z

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I don't even know what the purpose of that stunt would be so I'm going to assume he's carrying that plane.
 
Z-Beat

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His poor agent having a mental breakdown every time another one of these comes out
 
MasterYoshi

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I think I've made peace with the future headline that Tom Cruise died, and not from natural causes.

He's nuts!
 
Embiid

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I vaguely remember hearing Dead Reckoning Part One finished filming so this could be from the sequel
 
Biske

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This kind of stuff is the most normal part of Tom Cruise. It's the other shit insane.

Edit: Would love to see the conversations in movie studio insurance agents though lol
 
bremon

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Guy is a fucking legend. Unshakeable faith in Xenu. He doesn't need a parachute or any safety measures at all, his thetan level makes Vader's midichlorian count look pedestrian.
 
mbpm

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This guy really wants to die in the most dramatic possible fashion and then have the use the footage in a movie
 

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Seeing the behind the scenes of him doing all his own stunts in Dubi outside the Burj Khalifa is when I realized he really is a different breed. I still think that is his greatest and craziest stunt work.
 
mandiller

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Tom is heading to space to film on the ISS too, right?

That that actually seems normal compared to all his other stunts is nuts.
 
coldcrush

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without knowing the context of this scene (like is he about to fall off and skydive?), I wonder how he is attached to the plane,,, surely you couldn't just attach his arms without them ripping off,,, looks like he's stuck on by something behind his head too hahaha
 
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Saucycarpdog said:
Tom is insane.
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We know.

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nihilence said:
Who is crazier, Tom or Jackie?
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Jackie seems to go for more quantity than death-defying, but I haven't seen every stunt he's ever done.

RustyNails said:
Jackie Chan, only because Jackie got hospitalized/injured several times during the batshit insane stunts. Armour of God he was nearly killed too. Cruise...never gotten injured. Xenu buffs all around.
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This doesn't really show who does more stunts that would more likely get them outright killed, only that Jackie ended up getting badly injured from some that he did.
 
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RustyNails said:
Jackie Chan, only because Jackie got hospitalized/injured several times during the batshit insane stunts. Armour of God he was nearly killed too. Cruise...never gotten injured. Xenu buffs all around.
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He broke his ankle on a MI movie doing a roof to roof jump. Oddly pedestrian given some the insane stuff he does.

He also finished the scene.
 
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