Tom Cruise recently visited The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonon May 19th to talk playing Ethan Hunt for an eighth film in the action series, Fallon shared that he’d already seen the film.
After looking back at a few of his most unforgettable, thoroughly death-defying onscreen capers (“that was fun,” the actor said of hanging off a cliff), Cruise shared BTS footage of preparing for the centerpiece stunt with director Christopher McQuarrie, as well as a photo of the talked-about The Final Reckoning scene. The footage of their test is jaw-dropping, with Cruise seemingly barely hanging onto the red airplane’s wing and nothing but a cord tying him to the craft. In a voiceover, McQuarrie explains that “When Tom is on the wing, we have to communicate via hand signal because the winds are from 100 to 140 miles an hour.”
In addition to the wing walking, Fallon marveled at what the rest of Mission: Impossible 8 has in store. “There’s car chases, there’s hand-to-hand combat. What you do to that dude’s face with the treadmill… I’m not gonna spoil it, but it’s great.”