Mission: Impossible
Tom Cruise ’s injury from the shooting ofMission : Impossible - Fallouthasn’t made it into the terminal cut - despite featuring in the marketing . TheMission : Impossiblemoviesare now best known for Tom Cruise ’s death - defying , stuntman - free stunts - in the latest entry a HALO jump and helicopter chase - but his biggest injury came from something far more unobjectionable .
In August 2017 , right in the middle of production onMission : Impossible 6,Cruise mislanded a rooftop start in London , breaking his ankle . The stunt was meant to have Ethan Hunt grabbing onto the sharpness of the building , but the actor bear upon incorrectly , smashing into it . Filming was put on cargo area for , with Cruise rejoin in October for the final weeks of shotting . Footage of the leap was shared at the closing of 2017 and afterwards appear intrailers forMission : Impossible - Fallout . It looked like Cruise , ever a stickler for authenticity , was allowing the messed up take - which he finished due to in - the - consequence budget concerns - to be used in the film . Not so !
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The sequence in interrogation comes at the end ofMission : Impossible - Fallout ’s second destruction , where Ethan is track an attacker through the City of London from St. Paul ’s Cathedral to the Tate Modern on the Southbank . And while the much - discourse jump does come along , the take is different : Cruise lands with his weight on the edge and his foot does n’t unnaturally crouch . After being in the marketing , the accident was n’t used after all .
However , it does come along that the backwash of the injury did make it into the film . When Ethan pulls himself up from the bound and continues his pursuit , he hitch for a arcsecond . Comparing this to the footage of the accident , it appear this is the take of Cruise diligently finishing the stunt .
At the moment , neither Cruise nor writer / music director Christopher McQuarrie has commented on the cut , although the reason is easy enough to deduce : it did n’t look right . This may be a pretty dim-witted stunt alongside the insanity ofMission : Impossible , but they still to make it look genuine . Cruise ’s landing place in the failed attempt was off ( hence the break ) so it wo n’t have necessarily fit into the wider action episode . This is why the subsequent limp could be used - it looks fine in television camera as the action ( walking out of shot ) is a muckle less complicated .
As for why it was in thetrailers , this is scarce the first time a movie has marketed itself on footage not in the film - and there ’s lilliputian aboutMission : unsufferable - Falloutthat ’s captured people ’s imagination more than Cruise ’s injury ( except perhapsHenry Cavill ’s mustache ) .
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