Tom Cruise Did So Many Burning Parachute Jumps Filming Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning That He Won a Guinness World Record

Here’s the happening astir Tom Cruise: we whitethorn ne'er person different genuinely fearless histrion similar him again. The antheral hung from a biplane for real, aft all, successful his latest movie Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. Oh, and not to marque things much complicated, his parachute catches connected occurrence erstwhile helium drops from the level and helium has to rapidly chopped himself escaped and deploy a 2nd chute. Well, helium could’ve done the level stunt, we good know, but surely helium didn’t besides acceptable himself ablaze, right?

Wrong. Cruise did leap from a chopper astatine 7,500 feet successful Drakensberg, South Africa with a fuel-soaked main parachute that was rigged to beryllium acceptable connected fire, according to The Hollywood Reporter, a death-defying stunt helium performed a terrifying 16 times. Sheesh.

“What I’m going to bash is I’m going to beryllium deploying,” Cruise explained to unit members successful a caller video that highlights the enactment that went into making the stunt enactment down the scenes. “[And] if this is twisted portion it’s burning, I’m going to beryllium spinning and burning. I person to footwear retired of the twist and past ignite. I got 10 seconds.”

As a result, Guinness World Records has declared that Cruise acceptable a grounds for “the astir burning parachute jumps by an individual."

“Tom is nary alien to grounds breaking,” Craig Glenday, editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records, said. “Over his impressively agelong and accordant career, he’s proved himself to beryllium the astir almighty histrion successful Hollywood and the astir bankable star, and he’s inactive the histrion with the astir consecutive $100 cardinal movies connected their resume and the astir palmy starring enactment leader astatine the worldwide container office.”

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning joined Sinners successful passing the $350 cardinal people implicit the weekend. Cruise’s eighth Mission: Impossible movie is present up to $353.818 cardinal globally, with affirmative connection of rima helping substance a 33% driblet from opening weekend. IGN's Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning reappraisal returned a 6/10. We said: "The enactment thrills, but the soapy code keeps greatness conscionable retired of scope for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning."

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.