CINEMA NEWS – The most breathtaking stunt in film history will be featured in Mission: Impossible Showdown Part One, which will of course be performed by Tom Cruise.

We’re used to Cruise raising the stakes in every Mission: Impossible with life-threatening climbs, grabs and jumps, and few people think that it almost cost him his career at the time. Apparently 16 years ago, the Paramount studio got rid of him because he did stunts in Mission: Impossible 3 that threatened the completion of the production. Studios don’t usually bother their stars by contacting them personally with bad news, so Cruise learned about the fact of separation from a statement published in the Wall Street Journal, which said that they were cutting ties with him because ” because of his creative suicide attempts” his behavior is unacceptable for the company.

Cruise then approached Metro Goldwyn Mayer, but then came the big turn. He gave such a brilliant performance in Tropical Storm that Paramount lured him back. He could do the next Mission: Impossible (Phantom Protocol), where he climbed to the top of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper, but Jeremy Renner as an aspiring superstar was already watching him for supplies, if things go wrong again. (Renner then became the Jolly Joker: he succeeded Jason Bourne in The Bourne Legacy.) Phantom Protocol grossed $700 million, and studio bosses immediately they hit back, saying Cruise might even shoot himself into space next time if he can make that much money.

Cruise gave a striking answer to why he regularly risks his life in his films: “Gene Kelly was once asked why he dances?”.

(Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One – domestic release: July 13, 2023.)