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Watch Tom Cruise Rehearse and Perform the 'Biggest Stunt in Cinema History'

Here's how the movie star prepared for his most ambitious action sequence yet in 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning.'

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A mini-documentary released on YouTube by Paramount Pictures follows the months of preparation that went into planning and executing a heart-stopping chase scene in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One , in which Cruise's character, secret agent Ethan Hunt, rides a motorcycle off the edge of a cliff and goes into a base jump, free-falling towards the earth before pulling his parachute cord.

"There's a lot going into this stunt," says director Christopher McQuarrie. "So Tom put together this master plan to coordinate all of these experts in each of the particular disciplines involved, to make this whole thing happen.

Prior to the shoot in Hellesylt, Norway in 2020, Cruise undertook a year of training to master motocross, base jumping and advanced skydiving, including working on his strength and stability to ensure he can control his own position mid-air, and manoeuver the parachute canopy in the right way.

"You train and drill every little aspect over and over and over and over again," says Cruise.

When the prep for the shoot was at its most intense, Cruise was doing 30 jumps per day, and he racked up more than 500 skydives and 13,000 motocross jumps over the course of rehearsal. Throughout this entire process, Cruise also wore a GPS chip so that they were able to track his speed and location in three-dimensional space at every stage of the stunt, which then enabled them to plan exactly where the drone cameras needed to be for the shoot.

"The key is me hitting certain speeds and being consistent with that," says Cruise. "There's no speedometer, so I do it by sound and feel of the bike. And then as I depart the bike, I'm using the wind that's hitting me, I'm pumping my chest, that will give me lift."

On the day of the shoot, all conditions have to be perfect for Cruise to pull off the staggering feat, and things are tense behind the camera as the actor shoots off the edge of the precipice and plummets into the valley below... a total of six times.

"We've been working on this for years," says Cruise. "I've wanted to do it since I was a little kid."

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"You know the only thing you have to avoid while doing a stunt like this is serious injury or death..."

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Tom Cruise’s latest movie Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has received widespread acclaim since it premiered worldwide this week, with Cruise upping the stakes for the seventh instalment in the Mission: Impossible franchise. But ahead of release to the general public, there’s one unbelievable stunt that has left everybody wondering… ‘How did they do it?!’

One cold September day in 2020, on Norway’s picturesque Helsetkopen mountain range, the ripples of a modified Honda CRF 250 motorbike engine cascaded across the vast glacial scene, as Tom Cruise and a Hollywood film crew put years of preparation into practice, to undertake the biggest stunt in cinema history.

The stunt was filmed on the first day of principal photography, “in classic Mission form,” says director Christopher McQuarrie, in which Cruise would charge a custom-built motorcycle over a sheer mountain edge and freefall almost 4000 feet before deploying a parachute canopy before certain death.

To pull something off of this magnitude required years of meticulous planning and training to achieve perfect execution. “There’s a lot going into this stunt. So Tom put together this master plan to coordinate all of these experts in each of the particular disciplines involved, to make this whole thing happen.”

WATCH Tom Cruise’s biggest stunt ever below.

“Don’t be careful. Be competent.” Tom Cruise

Hollywood’s movie maverick Tom Cruise is well known for his daring on-screen stunts, whether it’s climbing a 2000-foot cliff in the opening scene of Mission: Impossible II ; hanging onto the edge of a huge Airbus A400M plane as it takes off in Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation ; or ascending 1700 feet up the tallest building in the world with no more than a harness for Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol , Cruise is the king of on-camera chaos, bringing the Mission: Impossible story to dizzying new heights with each subsequent flick – literally.

The preparation for such a stunt was immense that Cruise had to master a year of BASE training and advanced skydive training, doing 30 jumps a day and 500 skydives to perfect his canopy skills and spacial awareness, tracking, freefalling and positioning.

This continued with specialised motocross training, carrying out over 13,000 individual jumps to determine the perfect speed, distance and overall trajectory of the final stunt. This is a feat in itself, not considering the fact that Cruise’s bike had no internal speedometer, so with each successive launch, he had to become so perfectly aligned with the determining factors of his jumps, using no more than his body to land effectively and safely.

“The key is me hitting certain speeds and being consistent with that. There’s no speedometer, so I do it by sound and feel of the bike. And then as I depart the bike, I’m using the wind that’s hitting me here and I’m cupping my chest. That will give me lift,” Cruise explains.

In Norway, where the final stunt was to take place for Mission: Impossible 7 , a swarm of helicopters were brought in to expertly assemble the “masterful” track and ramp. Following years of precise preparation, the conditions were right for the real thing.

Defying gravity, fear and limitations require a specific piece of kit. For his death-defying stunt, Tom Cruise’s goggles in Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning – Part One were Oakley’s one-of-a-kind ECLP23, featuring High-Speed Protection, an expanded field of view and Zero Gravity making sure that the eyewear was a perfect fit for his face, leaving no room for error as Cruise freefalls over a cliff edge with no stunt double in sight.

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Cruise would perform the final stunt a total of eight times off the sheer edge of the Helsetkopen mountains, at a height of 4,000 feet into a jagged and unforgiving ravine. “Every time I went off the ramp, it was dangerous,” explained Cruise. “It was risking my life. And we wanted to keep that to a minimum.”

The final cut is pure cinematic perfection; an addictive action sequence that raises the stakes in this latest saga of Ethan Hunt’s adrenaline-filled anthology. So there’s no surprise then that Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has received a score of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and is set to be the highest-rated movie of the Mission: Impossible franchise.

As director, Christopher McQuarrie says: “This is far and away the most dangerous thing we’ve ever attempted. The only thing that scares me more is what we have planned for Mission 8 …”

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Tom Cruise reveals secrets of the 'biggest stunt' in movie history

Tom Cruise and company reveal a behind-the-scenes look at Mission: Impossible 7 stunt.

Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise on set of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Think it's worth starting this article off with a friendly reminder that Tom Cruise is 60 years old. An age where most people are considering retirement, Cruise continues to go further and further with hair-raising stunts, including one for the 2023 new movie Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One that is being described as the "biggest stunt in cinema history" and the most dangerous stunt of his career.

A new behind-the-scenes video offers a lot of fascinating (and insane) details about the stunt, which sees Cruise ride a motorcycle off of a cliff in Norway and then perform a base jump. We don't know the context of it in the movie, but it certainly looks to be on par with previous Tom Cruise stunts from the Mission: Impossible franchise, including the famous wire-hanging scene, him climbing the Burj Khalifa, holding on to the side of plane and performing a HALO jump.

There's a lot of incredible footage and soundbites in the video. We've got a quick rundown of some of the ones that made our jaws drop.

Tom Cruise wanted to drive a motorcycle off a cliff since he was a little kid apparently; this man is just wired differently.
The stunt team's mantra is "don't be careful, be confident."
Cruise did a year of base training, advanced skydive training and canopy skills (over 500 skydives).
Someone describes Tom Cruise as "the most aware person I've ever met."
They built a motocross track for Cruise to train on and he practiced more than 13,000 jumps.
Director Christpher McQuarrie said even two years ago the cameras didn't exist to capture the stunt like they did.
Tom Cruise: "Always wear my earplugs, so I don't hear myself scream."
There was no speedometer on the bike, so Cruise said he judged the speed by the sound and feel of the bike.
Miles Dashier, base jumping coach: "The only things you have to avoid while doing a stunt like this are serious injury or death." You don't say!
After the first take, Cruise was eager to do another one. He did the stunt six times in total.

The video was shown in front of Avatar: The Way of Water on IMAX screens, but now it is available to watch on YouTube or directly below.

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One is set to release exclusively in movie theaters on July 14, 2023. In addition to Cruise, Mission: Impossible regulars Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson are all back, as are Vanessa Kirby and Angela Bassett from Fallout, and Henry Czerny from the original Mission: Impossible . New additions to the franchise include Haley Atwell, Cary Elwes, Pom Klementiff, Rob Delany, Indira Varma, Charles Parnell, Shea Whigham and Mark Gatiss.

If you want to get your Cruise fill in before the new Mission: Impossible movie, Top Gun: Maverick arrives on Paramount Plus on December 22 (he even wished everyone a thank you for supporting Top Gun: Maverick while jumping out of a plane ), while the other Mission: Impossible movies are also all streaming on Paramount Plus .

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Tom Cruise Shows Off the ‘Biggest Stunt in Cinema History’ in New ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Featurette (Video)

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Tom Cruise motorcycles off a cliff, base-jumps through the sky and leaps out of planes in an extended behind-the-scenes featurette released by Paramount Pictures for “ Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One.”

The clip opens with an intimidating shot of a long ramp curling over a cliff’s rocky edge in Norway. “This is far and away the most dangerous thing we’ve ever attempted,” Christopher McQuarrie , writer and director of the film, says in voice over.

Cruise adds: “We’ve been working on this for years. We’re gonna shoot it in Norway, and it’s gonna be a motorcycle jump off a clip into a base jump. I’ve wanted to do it since I was a little kid. It all comes down to one thing: The audience.”

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Cruise explains the exact set-up of the stunt, which involves a motorcycle chase over a cliff, and then ends in a jump over the cliff’s steep drop. The clip shows the arduous prep that the stunt involves, including over 500 skydives and 13,000 motocross jumps.

From making sure his parachute opens correctly to filming the same stunt six times to get the perfect shot to gauging his motorcycle’s speed by ear, it’s clear that Cruise is dedicated to his stuntwork and this franchise.

At the end of the clip, McQuarrie says that the only thing that scares him more is what he has planned for the next film in the franchise.

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Parts of the film’s behind-the-scenes footage is also being played in IMAX theaters before showings of “Avatar 2.”

“Dead Reckoning” is the seventh installment of the spy thriller franchise, which stars Cruise as Ethan Hunt, a special agent of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). The film is scheduled for release in July.

Watch the full clip here or in the embed above.

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How Tom Cruise Ups the Ante With His Biggest Stunt Ever

Tom Cruise is taking his stuntman skills to the next level in a new promotional video for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.

Tom Cruise is certainly no stranger to doing his own stunts in the action movies that he's in, especially when it comes to the Mission: Impossible franchise . Whether he's skydiving hundreds of times, flying his own helicopter, scaling the largest building in the world, jumping between buildings, or hanging off the edge of a plane, Tom Cruise's fearless attitude is always pushing the limits of stunt work to the next level.

This belief in the importance of real stunts and his belief in doing them himself has led to what Cruise and Paramount Pictures are calling "The Biggest Stunt in Cinema History." The stunt, put together and performed by Cruise with the help of a massive crew of people, is a motorcycle jump off of a huge cliff directly into a BASE jump. Watch the death-defying video here:

Tom Cruise Needed Intense Training to Prepare for the Jump

No stunt of any kind would be possible without rigorous preparation, but a stunt of this magnitude required hundreds upon thousands of hours of prep by Cruise alone. In order to prepare, Cruise first had to learn how to properly control his body while skydiving. He learned to position himself in a way that his body could catch as much air as possible to not only slow his descent and give him more time in the air.

After learning how to control his body while diving, the next step in his skydiving training was to work on controlling his canopy parachute in order to safely make it to the ground. More and more drops helped him maneuver his canopy better until he was an expert skydiver. When his training was all said and done, Cruise had done over 500 drops, according to his trainers.

After the skydiving portion of his stunt training was complete, Cruise had to become a motocross jumping professional as well, in order to properly complete the stunt jump before going into his dive. Cruise had to learn how to control his body as well as his bike to drive at the proper speed and safely land after each jump. Each jump was leading Cruise to go off of the massive stunt ramp, and preparation required Cruise to complete over 13,000 separate motocross jumps before he was ready to practice off a larger ramp.

Cruise's practice off a larger ramp was putting all of his training to work, as he needed to exit the ramp at the proper speed, safely abandon his bike while in the air, and control his body to finish the jump. These practice runs were also essential to the technical preparation of the stunt, as a GPS attached to Cruise's body helped stunt coordinators anticipate the required speed and angle of Cruise's jump to best prepare when it was time to film the real thing .

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Extreme Technical Preparation Was Also Necessary

Just getting one person ready to do a jump of this level requires intense preparation, but being able to film it for a major motion picture is a whole other story as well. Even without filming, the ramp itself required months of time to be built by engineers and technicians, as parts of the ramp needed to be airlifted by helicopter to the top of the cliff in order to put it all together. Other than the ramp's construction, determining camera placement to get the best possible shots of the stunt was needed, and it required Cruise to perform even more practice jumps to figure out the best angles and drone placements.

Weather was also a major factor in picking the best day to do the jump, as slightly different headwinds, crosswinds, and other conditions could seriously affect the outcome of the jump. Clearer weather was also needed to make sure that the recordings of the jump looked good, considering if the weather was too foggy, the camera wouldn't be able to see Cruise during his dive. After taking all of these different technical aspects into account and Cruise's brutal training, it was time to complete "the biggest stunt in cinema history."

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The Actual Jump

Even just watching the YouTube video of Tom Cruise performing this massive stunt is enough to make your palms sweat . Watching him drive down the long ramp before careening over the edge of the cliff, thousands of feet in the air and free-falling for hundreds more truly is a terrifying sight to see. However, seeing the canopy deploy is a sign of relief as Cruise glides safely to the ground. You think he would be done there, right? Well, you don't know Tom Cruise then.

One of the first things Cruise says when he lands for the first time is "I think I can hold to the bike a little longer." Cruise then goes back to the top of the cliff and jumps again, and again, and again. He completed the stunt a grand total of six times, showing his dedication to getting the perfect stunt for his movie, as well as the dedication to create a wildly entertaining movie for his fans. Creating a marketing video for a stunt like this that will be in the upcoming Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One is a stroke of genius and has moviegoers looking forward to the film's July 2023 release.

Tom Cruise's 'biggest stunt in cinema history' secrets revealed

Tom Cruise, 61, pulled off an incredible, death-defying stunt in the newest Mission Impossible film that has been acclaimed as the 'biggest and most dangerous stunt in cinema history'

Tom Cruise is seen beaming in black shades after his filming of the newest Mission Impossible film

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Actor Tom Cruise , who just turned 61 this week, pulled off a death-defying stunt in the newest Mission Impossible film that has been acclaimed as the "biggest and most dangerous stunt in cinema history".

Crew from behind the scenes of Paramount Pictures gave an inside look at the master plan behind executing the daring scene in the seventh instalment of the Mission Impossible series franchise Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.

Cruise has been famously known in Hollywood for fearlessly performing his own stunts, and he's not slowing down now. In a 10-minute video posted by Paramount in December, the star shocks audiences with a scene of him driving a motorcycle off the edge of a cliff and falling from the sky, then dismounting the bike and parachuting into a Norwegian valley.

In the video, director Christopher McQuarrie says: "This is far and away the most dangerous thing we've ever attempted. We've been working on this for years."

McQuarrie says that Tom was very hands-on in his involvement with the planning on the scene: "So Tom put together this master plan to coordinate all of these experts in each of the particular disciplines involved to make this whole thing happen."

The stunt required an enormous amount of training and preparation including over 13,000 motorcycle jumps and 500 skydives. Cruise has performed many dangerous stunts throughout the Mission Impossible series, but this film outshines them all with members of the crew even speaking out saying that they 'might lose Tom Cruise' in death-defying stunts .

Simon Pegg, co-star of Tom Cruise, expressed these fears in an interview with Deadline at the premiere saying: "Tom is jumping off cliffs on a motorbike he’s hanging his you know, hanging off trains — it’s genuinely dangerous stuff."

In preparing for this treacherous scene, the Top Gun actor needed to be well-trained in both BASE jumping and on the motorcycle. For the newest film a motocross track was built which Cruise would practice on. On this track, the star would jump 80ft tabletops which was done a total of 13,000 times during the duration of his training.

In the video Cruise shares: "I have to get so good at this that there's just no way that I miss my marks. You train and drill every little aspect over and over and over and over again."

Wade Eastwood, the stunt coordinator of the project, explained that Cruise would do over 30 jumps at day to the point that he was "just a machine." To recreate the jump that was going to take place in the film, the crew created a replica which was made with a ramp and quarry. that was filled with cardboard boxes to catch the motorcycle. This setup was created in England to simulate the jump that was later filmed in Hellesylt, Norway in 2020.

McQuarrie explained that they had to be able to "consistently predict where Tom was going to be in three-dimensional space" when creating the ramps and having Cruise perform the jumps.

To help with this planning a GPS chip recorded all of Cruise's jumps and speed as well as other factors such as crosswind or headwind in order to create an accurate set of data. By analyzing this data, the crew were able to calculate the height the star was reaching and made sure that all of the cameras and drones were placed properly to capture the moment.

Cruise explained that the key to the stunt was hitting specific speeds and being consistent. He said that there was no speedometer, so he had to do it through the "sound and feel of the bike." He said that when he departed the bike he was using the wind that was hitting him, cupping his chest, and through that he was able to get a lift.

Miles Daisher, the BASE jumping coach of the film, said: "Tom Cruise is an amazing individual. You tell him something and he just locks in in. His sense of spatial awareness, he's the most aware person I've ever met."

This was just one of the many wild stunts Cruise performed on set during the newest Mission Impossible him, which is out in theatres July 12. Cruise shares that he loves being able to perform stunts like these and is not looking at retiring from the screen any time soon.

In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald , Tom says that he is inspired by Harrison Ford acting at 80, and says: "I hope to keep making Mission Impossible films until I'm his age."

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Watch Tom Cruise complete ‘biggest stunt in cinema history’ with death-defying jump

Tom Cruise is soaring to new heights.

The legendary actor appears in a new video from the making of the upcoming “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” that gives fans an “extended behind the scenes look at the biggest stunt in cinema history ,” according to Paramount Pictures’ description of the clip on YouTube.

The video, which runs more than nine minutes long, opens with a breathtaking overhead view of a mountain in Hellesylt, Norway, with Cruise explaining that he will ride a motorcycle off of a cliff that turns into a base jump.

“I’ve wanted to do it since I was a little kid,” he says.

Director Christopher McQuarrie says Cruise helped facilitate the stunt by getting together a team of experts in various fields to make sure it goes off without a hitch.

There are clips of Cruise skydiving and riding a motorcycle on a motorcross track built specifically for the stunt, while viewers learn how different models were constructed to properly gauge the angle Cruise would be diving off the bike. There was even a GPS chip to keep track of all of his jumps and gather a wide range of data, including how the wind would affect each jump.

“I have to get so good at this that there’s just no way that I miss my marks,” he says.

Tom Cruise had a long road to pulling off this amazing stunt.

“You train and drill every little aspect over and over and over and over again,” he adds while we see clips of him diving and riding his motorcycle.

And Cruise apparently did just that, performing more than 500 dives and 13,000 jumps on the motorcycle.

Around the 7-minute mark, Cruise takes off on the motorcycle, driving off a ramp and then pulling a parachute to the ground below in a mind-blowing effort.

“This is far and away the most dangerous thing we’ve ever attempted,” McQuarrie says.

You can see for yourself how the stunt looks on the big screen when “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” opens in theaters July 2023.

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Watch Tom Cruise Perform the “Biggest Stunt in Cinema History”

Tom cruise is taking practical stunt work to the extreme...again. .

Watch Tom Cruise preform his massive stunt for the new 'Mission Impossible' film

Some of the biggest movies of 2023, like Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning — Part One, are gearing up to be released in July. To keep audiences excited during this seven-month wait, these massive films released their first looks at their respective projects over the weekend.

While the pure camp of Barbie and the amazing performance from Cillian Murphy Oppenheimer has us excited for the story and performances, Paramount Pictures and Tom Cruise know what the fans of the Mission: Impossible franchise want— big and risky stunts .

Paramount Pictures has released an extended behind-the-scenes featurette that gave audiences their first glimpse at Tom Cruise's upcoming seventh film in the Mission: Impossible franchise. In the clip, Cruise is at work with his production team as they prep for the first day of principal photography where they will film the “biggest stunt in cinema history,” according to Cruise.

“This is far and away the most dangerous thing we’ve ever attempted,” writer/director Christopher McQuarrie says at the beginning of the clip.

The stunt involves Cruise jumping a motorcycle off a massive cliff into a base jump.

“We’ve been working on this for years,” Cruise says about the stunt. “We’re going to shoot it in Norway, and it’s going to be a motorcycle jump off a cliff into a base jump. I’ve wanted to do it since I was a little kid. It all comes down to one thing—the audience.”

The behind-the-scenes clip shows Cruise's intense year of preparation to execute the scene, which included over 500 sky-dives and 13,000 motocross jumps. Many of the jumps were done so that the production team could track where Cruise would be each time he jumped so the cameras could be adequately prepped to capture the shot.

Dead Reckoning is the seventh film in the franchise, and the spectacle of big and dangerous stunts is getting bigger and more dangerous. The motorcycle jump is honestly terrifying to watch, but Cruise is a top-tier actor who will hit his mark every single time.

If the crew didn’t get the shot the first time, then Cruise has no problem resetting and doing it again in the name of fantastic entertainment.

Let us know what you think of the stunt in the comments below!

Source: Paramount Pictures

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The show features both an impressive scope and stunning attention to detail, the latter of which is particularly reflected in costume designer Carlos Rosario's work.

Rosario, a student of European high fashion and later an apprentice to Oscar-winning designer Colleen Atwood, has brought an incredible level of expertise to the series, crafting all costumes and armor for all characters, bringing a modern sensibility while also honoring traditional Japanese methods and culture.

We were delighted to meet with Rosario via Zoom to discuss his work on the series.

Editor's note: The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

No Film School: I know that your background is high fashion, so what got you into costume design?

Carlos Rosario: I feel like it was destiny, really. I feel like the circumstances in life led me into costume design. Initially, it didn't even cross my mind that actually costumes were needed on movies. That's how clueless I was about the movie-making process. When I got into the industry, I was very, very young. I actually came to Los Angeles as a tourist, and a friend of mine told me, "Why don't you just actually bring all your drawings with you, just in case? It's Hollywood, you might meet somebody."

And so one thing led to another, and I met somebody that actually told me that in order to work in the movie industry, I needed to be part of the union. And at that moment, obviously, I didn't have any experience. I couldn't join the union as an assistant designer or a custom designer, but I thought, well, I have all my illustrations. There was a section that was specifically for illustrators, and so I applied as an illustrator because I didn't know what the process was to design costumes. And I thought, well, I know how to draw. Maybe this is my way in.

And so I applied, I presented my portfolio, I showed my drawings, and I got really lucky because the president of the jury was the president of the union. And two weeks after accepting me, he actually became one of the designers on Batman and Robin . And so he asked me if I could do the drawings for his project, and that's how I started.

So, in a way, I started as an illustrator. It's as simple as that. That was my way in. And throughout the first few years, by working very closely with designers, specifically Colleen Atwood, because I worked with her for a long time, it really allowed me to understand what it meant to be a costume designer, what the essence of this job was about. And so that's the way I started, basically.

NFS: The show is a very unique period, rich with history; where do you even start in terms of the research?

Rosario: So I think that's the most important thing when you do a period project is definitely to know the period as much as possible. You need to understand the language of the clothing of that period. That's really the most important thing because that's your way to create a very strong foundation. Then after that, you can be the artist that you want to be. You can create visuals that could be either extremely accurate historically, or they can be more symbolic, or they can be more emotional, more psychological, you know what I mean?

But at least the foundation to start any kind of design in terms of costumes is about understanding the period. So what we did is that we were in touch with experts. We studied as much as possible this period. We dissected and understood and studied the paintings of that period. Because I didn't want to study the costumes that I've seen on Japanese movies of this period, because that's only the interpretation of the director. It's the interpretation of the costume designer. And I didn't want to go through any filters. I wanted to go straight to the source.

And straight to the source, one, was studying the paintings, two was studying the characters that this characters of Shōgun are based on, and then understanding the language of the clothing of that period, the patterns. Everything meant something.

And then also we went to the archives of all the museums in the world to see if we could actually see pieces from that period. And of course, they're all faded and they're in bad condition but that also gave me an idea of how to design this project. So that was kind of like the first step towards designing this movie, this project.

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NFS: I watched your featurette and saw all the layers that the characters and the actors were wearing. Why was that so important to you to have those elements that we are not going to be able to see?

Rosario: That is a very good question. It's true that when I look at the show, of course there are all those details that you're missing, right? But the energy while we were making the show was really about making it as authentically and accurately as possible in order to respect the aesthetic, the Japanese aesthetic, the Japanese culture.

And I feel like even if you don't see it, the energy is there because when the entire crew, not just the costume department, but the entire crew, the actors, and everybody sees that every single department is working so hard to make everything the right way it builds up the energy of being passionate for what you're doing, and everybody is putting their best into it.

And the reason why I feel like the show is so successful is because you can see that people have really spent a lot of time working really hard to make it right. To make a really beautiful, authentic, quality-oriented show. And that really matters. Even if you don't see it, the energy is there.

NFS: Yeah, I love that.

Rosario: And also I feel like, I'm not Japanese, so my responsibility was definitely to respect the Japanese culture, to respect the Japanese actors, to respect this Japanese story with Japanese characters. And so that was really my challenge to get to the core of it.

But also, like I said in the clip that you told me about, it really is about understanding it, understanding the period, but then you have to bring it into the world. This is not just for the Japanese people, for Japan, it's for the entire world. So you have, as a designer, you need to find a balance between being very accurate, historically authentic, but also being able to create visuals, create costumes that are approachable to the audience, so the audience feel, they feel connected to the characters, but also because everything is so authentic, they emerge themselves into the experience of being part of futile Japan.

And that in itself is also the charming part of this project, is just being incorporated into this world that is so unique.

NFS: It was very interesting to see the actors comment on that too, and see that sort of be reinforced and accomplished so well.

Rosario: Thank you.

NFS: I know that obviously there are very intricate costumes, including armor, but I am interested in—with everything on the show being made—do you have any idea of what a typical production time on one of your costumes was?

Rosario: Well, I can tell you that each one of those ladies with the Uchikake plus all the different layers, it would take at least a week, a full week to make.

So what's difficult for us is that on TV, everything goes really fast. And usually the pattern on a TV is that you have two weeks of prep for every episode. But these ones were so gigantic that I needed to start designing them months in advance in order to be ready to deliver on the first day of shooting. So it was really complicated.

So by the time I was actually having my creative meetings with the directors and the showrunners and the producers, almost everything was almost in a good place. I needed to have something to show because we were going to be shooting in a few days, you know what I mean? And so I needed to make sure that I was as prepared as possible and not leave everything at the last minute.

So I would say that the length of some of the costumes for the ladies was at least a week. But some of the jinbaori ... some of them, it took a few weeks to make. On and off. Lady Ochiba also has pieces that are very complicated, and those took maybe 500, 600 hours to make.

Also, when we started into certain costumes for the peasants or for Muraji where we used the Sashiko sort of technique with all the stitchings, we made entire outfits with stitchings made by hand. So that also took a long time. So it was very time-consuming, but it was part of making this show as authentic as possible. And all those details really, I think, ultimately helped build the characters.

NFS: Yeah. I am so grateful that you had that time and the budget. The whole show is just so refreshing in its uniqueness and in that authenticity.

Rosario: You know what I love about it, as I'm speaking with a lot of people, is that I feel like in this time, this age where there's just so many shows out there and it's all about productivity and quantity and more and more and more. And it's almost like there is a lot of platforms out there that don't even care about the quality. Like, here, "I'm giving you this amount of ... Just make a movie, whatever. I just need it for ..."

And I just feel like this one was made the right way. And I think it's refreshing. Absolutely. It's refreshing, and it's inspiring for us and for people like us to be able to do our job properly.

NFS: Is there a costume that was the most challenging for you to design ?

Rosario: So I think, like I said before, I think the ones that obviously were the longest ones to make were more challenging. I would say, well, the armor was a long process, because I was thrown into this project in a very kind of dramatic way because I had to design right away all the armor in six weeks. And I didn't know anything about this period. I've never done anything that was related to Japanese costumes.

And so in six weeks, I had five illustrators. I needed to do all the research, all the drawings, get it all approved by everybody. And then once it was approved, then basically do boards for every single one of the armors. And every army has different categories. You might not see it on screen, but you have different levels. And so for each one of them, we needed to create all these boards with all the details, everything that how we wanted the armors to be later on so we could send them to the companies that make them.

So that was challenging. But for example, Lady Ochiba had a lot of really complicated outfits because she had so many different layers. There was a lot of hand painting, there was a lot of embroidery that had to be made. And then the jinbaori. The jinbaori for Toranaga also took a long time.

For example, the peacock jinbaori, that's like hundreds of peacock feathers that were all selected by size, and they were all stitched by hand into the jinbaori. Or the one that he wears at the end, which is one that looks like an armor. And we cut this dozens and dozens of little pieces of wood and leather, and then we just kind of put them together with cording. And so that took so much time. So things like that were time-consuming and obviously were more challenging than the others.

NFS: I know it's a large question, because your experience is so extensive, but is there a piece of advice that you would give someone starting in costume design?

Rosario: I think that in my experience, the more you know, the more ready you are to enter the world of entertainment because I do find that the new generation is not as ready as it should be when they get to work to start working with us. I think that when I started, I started as an illustrator, but then ... And even in school already in Paris, I knew how to be a pattern maker. I know how to dye. I know about fabrics. I know about the history of clothing. I mean, I have been learning as much as possible about everything and every single department of the costume department. So I know how to lead my breakdown artist. I know how to lead my tailors. And that is very important. The tailors, if they know you know, it makes the entire process much easier.

Going there and asking them to do something that they know it's not possible already ... There is already a disconnect there. But if they know that you see them, not only they will be able to do something beautiful, but at the same time they can bring your ideas to another level because they know you can follow. You know what I mean? So you need to know about architecture, about fabrics, about everything that will make you be a better costume designer. In my opinion. That's the best thing to do when you start.

And then I know that in this type of field, it's like you also need to learn on the field because there is an aspect that will be revealed as your career is unfolding, as you're communicating with people, as you go on your own path and you speak with costume designer and the rest of the crew, you will learn from everybody. Be open to everything that everybody has to say. But if you come already with a strong foundation of a knowledge of the basics, at least people know that. They will notice that. And if people notice that, they will put more energy into helping you, supporting you, sponsoring you. There is nothing more annoying than working with people that you are like, "What are you doing here? This is not about going to Target and buying socks. This is a serious job." You need to have culture. And so that's what I would recommend them.

NFS: Sidebar, real quick. I love Colleen Atwood's work. I spoke to her for Wednesday , and that was incredible learning from her as well.

Rosario: She is amazing. She's amazing. And that's what I always say. When I was working as an illustrator on Sleepy Hollow for her, I remember seeing her putting ... She put all these different tables in the warehouse, and I was just looking at her and I was like, "What is she doing? What is she doing?"

And so what she started doing is that she started creating all these pyramids of little pins, and one button here and one button there, to sort of start building the character. And it's at that moment that I realized the infinite possibilities that this job has to offer. Colleen Atwood is amazing for that. She's a true inspiration. I agree with you. She's a goddess.

NFS: Yeah. Huge fan. Huge fan.

Rosario: Huge fan.

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How Tom Cruise pulled off 'the biggest stunt in cinema history': Mission: Impossible star who insists on doing his own stunts rode motorbike off cliff in new film after years of training, 500 skydives and 13,000 motocross jumps

By Tom Pyman

Published: 07:11 EDT, 6 July 2023 | Updated: 08:31 EDT, 6 July 2023

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The secrets behind an incredible Tom Cruise stunt - dubbed the biggest and most dangerous in cinema history - have been revealed.

The 61-year-old, famous for performing his own action stunts, sets pulses racing in his new Mission: Impossible film , released on Monday, when he rides a motorbike off a cliff and falls from the sky.

Now, the extent of the behind-the-scenes work to prepare for that one jaw-dropping scene has been unveiled.

A remarkable ten-minute video from Paramount Pictures explains how Cruise undertook years of training, including 500 skydives and 13,000 motocross jumps, for the scene.

It begins with writer and director Christopher McQuarrie admitting: 'This is far and away the most dangerous thing we've ever attempted.'

The secrets behind an incredible Tom Cruise stunt - dubbed the biggest and most dangerous in cinema history - have been revealed

The 61-year-old, famous for performing his own action stunts, sets pulses racing in his new Mission: Impossible film, released on Monday, when he rides a motorbike off a cliff and falls from the sky

A remarkable ten-minute video from Paramount Pictures explains how Cruise undertook years of training, including 500 skydives and 13,000 motocross jumps, for the scene

Initial planning

The clip reveals how Cruise himself put together a 'master plan', coordinating various experts in a number of disciplines to help bring the scene together.

Training on the bike

To be ready for the scene, Cruise had to make sure he was well-trained, both on the bike and in terms of BASE jumping.

A motocross track was built, on which the star jumped 80ft tabletops, a whopping 13,000 times across his training.

He said of the experience: 'I have to get so good at this that there's just no way that I miss my marks.

'You train and drill every little aspect over and over and over and over again.'

Stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood said: 'They were doing 30 jumps a day, getting to the point where he was just a machine.'

To simulate the jump, which was ultimately filmed in Hellesylt, Norway, in September 2020, the film crew replicated a ramp and quarry - filled with cardboard boxes to catch the motorcycle - in England

Director Chrostpher McQuarrie (pictured) explained how different ramps were built at different angles to calculate what Cruise's trajectory would be

Filming could only take place if the weather conditions were perfect, both in terms of light and cloud cover - 'misty, but not foggy'

Cruise performed the stunt without any hitches, and was even willing to go back for more takes

Building a replica

McQuarrie explained how different ramps were built at different angles to calculate what Cruise's trajectory would be.

'We have to be able to consistently predict where Tom is going to be in three-dimensional space,' he said.

A GPS chip recorded every single one of the star's jumps, along with his ground speed and whether there was a headwind or a crosswind, to build a consistent set of data.

Cruise added: 'The key is me hitting certain speeds and being consistent with that.

'There's no speedometer, so I do it by sound and feel of the bike. Then as I depart the bike I'm using the wind that's hitting me here, I'm cupping my chest, that will give me lift.'

By analysing the data on each take, the filmmakers were able to see the height Cruise was reaching, and set drones and cameras in places where close-up shots could be captured.

McQuarrie added: 'Finding the right lens, the right platform, the right medium - even two years ago, the cameras didn't exist that would allow us to do what we're trying to do today.'

The ramp in Norway was constructed over several months, with all the equipment having to be brought in by helicopter

A GPS chip recorded every single one of the star's jumps, along with his ground speed and whether there was a headwind or a crosswind, to build a consistent set of data

The film crew had their head in their hands when Cruise performed the hugely dangerous stunt

Cruise revealed how there was no speedometer on the bike, so he calculated how fast he was going by sound and feel of the bike

It took months for the film crew to assemble the ramp Cruise drove off in Norway

Filming the stunt

The ramp in Norway was constructed over several months, with all the equipment having to be brought in by helicopter.

Filming could only take place if the weather conditions were perfect, both in terms of light and cloud cover - 'misty, but not foggy'.

BASE jumping coach John Devore admitted in the video: 'Of course, when something's being done for the first time you can't help but worry a little bit about how it's really going to turn out.'

Daisher added: 'If you don't get a clean exit from the bike and you get tangled up with it, if you don't open your parachute then you're not going to make it.'

Fortunately, Cruise performed the stunt without any hitches, and was even willing to go back for more takes.

As one crew member recalled: 'Tom Cruise just rode a motorcycle off a cliff six times today.'

After the suspense-filled jumps, McQuarrie said: 'The only thing that scares me more is what we have planned for Mission [Impossible] 8.'

Cruise summed up the experience by saying: I've wanted to do it since I was a little kid. It all comes down to one thing - the audience.'

By analysing the data on each take, the filmmakers were able to see the height Cruise was reaching, and set drones and cameras in places where close-up shots could be captured

After driving the bike off a cliff, Cruise then goes into a BASE jump, which he prepared for with some 500 skydives

Outlining his philosophy when it comes to dangerous scenes to the camera, Cruise says: 'Don't be careful, be competent'

Another high-profile stunt he performs in the film takes place aboard a moving train at 60mph, when he fights a villain played by Esai Morales.

Returning to the sequel are Cruise's usual sidekicks - veteran Hollywood names Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, and Vanessa Kirby.

Meanwhile, Pom Klementieff, Hayley Atwell and Simon Pegg also star in the blockbuster.

Speaking to 9Honey Celebrity on the red carpet of the movie's Australian premiere earlier this week, Cruise revealed his thoughts while filming the motorbike scene.

'I was thinking of performance, because, you see me at the beginning, I have to act, but I'm also thinking about the helicopter that's going down, the speed that I have to travel down that ramp,' he said.

'[Also] not getting blown off the ramp by a helicopter, not hitting the drone that was at the end of the ramp, not having the motorcycle hit me and destabilise me when I have a few seconds before I hit the ground, holding my position as long as I can, because if I open too soon, that's not the shot.'

Cruise also recently revealed that he doesn't wear helmets in his stunts because it 'just doesn't look cool'.

'I wear helmets when I ride motorcycles, and when I'm training, and I wear pads,' he explained.

'But when you start to go film, all the pads come off. So I train in helmets, but when I'm jumping and racing high-speed bikes, then it's not cinematic.'

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One is released in UK cinemas on Monday, July 10.

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Tom Cruise attempts ‘biggest stunt in the history of cinema’ for Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1. Watch

In a video shared by paramount studios, tom cruise is seen training hard to shoot the 'biggest stunt in the history of cinema' for his film mission: impossible - dead reckoning part one..

Tom Cruise is leaving no stones unturned for the next installment of Mission Impossible . As the seventh part gears up for release next year, the Hollywood star shared a glimpse of one of the breathtaking action sequences. On Monday, Paramount Pictures uploaded a video, where Tom and his team talk about prepping up for this stunt for months. The scene requires the action star to jump off a cliff while riding a motorcycle during a chase sequence. “This is far and away the most dangerous thing we’ve ever attempted,” he states, adding that whatever they are putting up is for the audience.

In the next few minutes, fans are shown how Tom prepares for the scene. He also smiles at the camera and says ‘Be confident”. The base jumping coach also talks about how the Hollywood star can learn the tricks of the rope in a click. “You say something to him and he locks it in.” He also adds that the actor is a very ‘aware’ person, as he’s seen jumping off the helicopter with ease.

Watch Tom Cruise attempt a death-defying stunt for Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1

The team further talks about how they rehearsed every little aspect of the stunt, and would even end up doing 30 jumps in a day. They calculated it to 500 skydivers and over 13000 motocross jumps. They used technology to build up a platform to assure the jump goes as planned, and is captured well by the cameras. The coach even warns that if the stunt goes wrong, it could lead to serious injury or even death.

Towards the end, as the actor successfully manages to pull off the death-defying stunt, the crew claps and cheers for him. He also thanks the team for their brilliant job. However, not convinced, he also says that he feels he held the bike a little longer than needed. One of the crew members says that this is the biggest stunt in the history of cinema, and Tom flew off the motorbike six times in a day. In a blooper moment, as Tom makes a face while pulling the parachute on, the team is seen sharing a laugh.

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Tom Cruise is choosing to accept a new high-stakes mission in some wild behind-the-scenes footage from “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.” The featurette shows the action star and his team preparing for a stunt years in the making, where he will jump a motorcycle off a cliff and turn it into a BASE jump. Just a normal day at work!

“This is far and away the most dangerous thing we’ve ever attempted,” Cruise says.

“Dead Reckoning” is the seventh installment of the spy thriller franchise, which stars Cruise as Ethan Hunt, a special agent of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF).

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Back in May, a teaser trailer revealed a series of death-defying stunts and action sequences in the film, including a sniper battle during a desert storm, multiple car chases and a tease of this stunt.

“Dead Reckoning Part One” is written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who previously helmed the franchise’s fifth and sixth installments — 2015’s “Rogue Nation” and 2018’s “Fallout.” The film is produced by Cruise, McQuarrie, J.J. Abrams, David Ellison and Jake Meyers, and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” is scheduled to premiere in theaters July 14, 2023. Watch the new stunt footage below.

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Despite His Life Threatening Stunts in Mission Impossible, Tom Cruise May Never Break This World Record by Jackie Chan

T om Cruise is famous for doing all his stunts himself, be it climbing a building or hanging out of a plane. While the actor is best known for those features of his performance, there is one other actor that has him beat on sheer numbers when comes to doing stunts for their films.

Jackie Chan might be known as a martial artist first, but an important part of his acting career has been his tenure as a stuntman, in the Hong Kong film industry and at Hollywood. And this is not just some anecdote that fans cheer about on the internet, it has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records.

Jackie Chan holds the record for most stunts performed by a living actor

Jackie Chan is one of the biggest action stars out there. Not only that, but he is an accomplished producer, writer, and director. The artist first got his start by doing stunts for martial arts films. He has appeared in over a hundred films, most of which have had excessive stunt work that the actor has done himself or in tandem with his stunt team.

The actor’s brand of comedy usually works with slapstick, which requires a lot of stunt work as objects are broken and used as weapons for fight choreography. This usually results in the crew and the actor undertaking a lot of stunt work, even for smaller scenes that are not big action set pieces.

The Guinness Book of World Records awarded Jackie Chan for the Most stunts by a living actor, which was given to the Rush Hour alum in 2012. This record is yet to be broken by any other actor. Despite his extensive work with stunts, Tom Cruise hasn’t even come close to such an achievement. The stunt work that the actor does is undoubtedly unparalleled, but Jackie Chan has Tom Cruise beat on sheer numbers. Given the brand of comedy that Jackie Chan creates, the stunt work required might be not as grand as those of Cruise, but are more numerous in number.

Jackie Chan’s commitment to stunt work has earned him quite a reputation

Jackie Chan is one of the most comedic actors that the industry has seen. Apart from that, the actor also has a great deal of marital arts experience, one that he employs in tandem with his comedy chops. Jackie Chan has also proven himself to be a great actor, one who understands the filmmaking process. With his background in stunt performance, the actor can craft amazing fight scenes that are impactful.

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Jackie Chan and Tom Cruise are two actors who are known for their stuntwork. While Tom Cruise has an up-down approach to stunt work, wishing to do what the script demands, Jackie Chan works with stunts first, incorporating moments into his script, and working closely with his team to create impactful sequences that resonate with fans.

The Awful Accident That Happened While Filming Tom Cruise’s ‘American Made’

Death, severe injury, and charges of negligence loomed over the Hollywood star's 2017 film.

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The tragic plane crash during the film's production resulted in two deaths and severe injuries to the surviving pilot.
Lawsuits were filed by the families of the deceased pilots, alleging negligence on the part of the film's production and questioning safety measures.

Any movie fan not living under a rock is well aware of Tom Cruise 's affinity for aviation. Having attained a pilot's license in 1994, the 60-year-old actor has put his skills to jaw-dropping use in several films , most dangerously in the Mission: Impossible films and Top Gun: Maverick . While his role as Pete Mitchell in the latter film and its predecessor remain iconic portrayals of a pilot, his performance as a flying daredevil in another film – American Made – also deserves praise.

In 2017's American Made , Tom Cruise played real-life pilot Barry Seal , a man who would turn to drug smuggling in the 1980s. Featuring many aerial sequences and high-altitude stunts, many of which were performed by the actor himself, the film's production was beset by tragedy on September 11, 2015. Carrying three pilots working on the film, Carlos Berl , Jimmy Lee Garland , and Andrew Purwin , a twin-engine Aerostar 600 crashed while en route through the Colombian Andes . The accident resulted in two deaths and severe lifelong injuries sustained by the sole survivor. But how did such an accident happen? And who would answer to the grieving loved ones filing lawsuits with charges of negligence?

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The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.

Who Were Pilots Carlos Berl, Jimmy Lee Garland, & Andrew Purwin?

Having grown up among aviators in Venezuela, Carlos Berl followed in his family's footsteps and became a pilot himself. Eventually relocating to Florida and New York, he amassed a variety of licenses over the years, and in 2015, caught wind of an upcoming Tom Cruise-starring film looking for experienced pilots. Won over by the opportunity, but with a constant eye toward safety, Berl voiced concerns after learning the production wanted him to fly the Aerostar 600, an aircraft with which he had no experience and was infamous among aviators for its involvement in "more than 260 deaths in 191 accidents around the world since 1969."

A native of Georgia, Jimmy Lee Garland had also never worked on a film. But as a pilot and mechanic running his own aviation company and teaching lessons, his knowledge and experience put him on Hollywood's radar. In addition to serving as Tom Cruise's double, Garland also taught the actor how to fly a Cessna 414, noting that his student "liked to participate in the stunts" and was "a very good pilot." The month before the crash, Garland was in Colombia putting his skills to use, racking up many hours in flight and enjoying the good life in the hotels and casinos of Medellín.

Unlike Berl and Garland, however, Andrew Purwin's aviation record was not without controversy. Particularly known in the industry for performing helicopter stunts, and having worked on high-profile films like Pirates of the Caribbean , Tropic Thunder , and Transformers , he'd cultivated a reputation among colleagues as a "dangerous" and risk-taking pilot. Purwin was also well-known to the Federal Aviation Administration, though perhaps not for the most reassuring reasons. In 1996, he crashed a helicopter that resulted in the death of a business partner, and would eventually be prohibited from flying fixed-wing aircraft in certain "weather and regulatory conditions." Purwin was involved in "dozens of incidents" over the years, and according to some in Hollywood's aviation circles, was even a member of the so-called "death pool," a group composed of pilots considered likely to lose their lives in a plane crash.

What Happened on the Set of 'American Made'?

As cameras were rolling on American Made in Colombia, Berl, Garland, and Purwin were tasked with flying the twin-engine Aerostar 600 from Santa Fe de Antioquia to Medellín after a long day of filming. Embarking on what should've been a 35-mile flight lasting just 20 minutes, the trio took off around 5:30 P.M., only moments after Tom Cruise had departed the set in a helicopter. According to initial reports, the Aerostar encountered bad weather and crashed near the village of La Clarita.

Upon discovering the wreckage , local civilians found all three pilots alive, though severely injured. But after summoning help and returning to the downed plane, Carlos Berl and Andrew Purwin had perished. The lone survivor, Jimmy Lee Garland, suffered "a shattered vertebra, collapsed lung, herniated diaphragm, 10 broken teeth, broken ribs, a broken jawbone, and a cracked skull on both sides of a dislodged eye socket." Waking up in a hospital nine days after the crash, Garland would later claim to have no memory of the flight, who was flying, or how the plane went down.

What Happened After the 'American Made' Set Accident?

Many questions were being asked after the tragedy in the Colombian mountains. How could three experienced pilots, each of whom had logged hours over the dramatic terrain of South American jungles and rainforests, end up crashing on a routine flight? What kinds of safety guidelines and industry regulations did the film's production have in place to avoid such an accident? What, if any, external factors may have contributed to what happened? And perhaps the most crucial question of all, who was flying the plane? With survivor Johnny Lee Garland unable to remember anything about the flight and its demise, it appears the question of who was flying the Aerostar will never be answered.

The loved ones of Carlos Berl and Andrew Purwin filed lawsuits, each citing negligence on the part of the film production and making claims regarding shortcuts taken at the expense of overall safety. Filed a year after his death, the suit on Berl's behalf alleged that American Made 's producers, as well as his fellow co-pilots, pressured him into piloting the notorious Aerostar that he'd not been trained to fly. Filed in April 2016, the lawsuit on Purwin's behalf made similar allegations against the film's producers and flight coordinators, claiming that Berl was flying the plane and his inexperience contributed to the crash. For their part, the producers filed a countersuit against Purwin, claiming that his aviation company, Heliblack, supplied the film production with a compromised plane and that the pilot had been dishonest about his qualifications.

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Regarding the events immediately preceding the flight, an anonymous source noted, "Apparently there was an argument about needing to leave immediately, even though they had some information about the weather that they should have stayed behind. I was just told there was intense pressure to get out as soon as possible." Another source, an experienced Colombian pilot, acknowledged, "I fly there regularly, and I would have stayed on the ground that day. You have to have experience to fly in Colombia. You cannot fly here like you fly in Miami, where there’s not a mountain anywhere. If you fly in South America, you have to be very trained in the conditions."

In April 2019, more than three years after the accident and a year-and-a-half after American Made hit theaters, the legal battles came to an end. According to Variety , the litigation was resolved in an undisclosed settlement between the plaintiffs and the film's producers . While it may never be known exactly why the Aerostar went down, or who was flying the plane in the first place, the tragedy behind the 2017 film shined a sobering light on the often contentious issues surrounding overall safety, the vetting of individuals, and regulatory processes as they relate to the logistics of film production.

Something Similar Happened on the 'Top Gun' Set

As tragic as it was, the accident associated with American Made wasn't the first of its kind while filming a movie starring Tom Cruise . Renowned pilot Art Scholl , 53 years old and known for his stunt work in Hollywood and air shows, was flying a Pitts Special biplane to capture footage for Top Gun in 1985. While in an inverted flat spin over the Pacific, Scholl suddenly radioed, "I've got a problem here." Moments later, he crashed into the ocean, and though debris was recovered, neither the full wreckage nor Scholl's body was ever found by authorities. Much like the events leading to the deaths on American Made 's production, a level of mystery and speculation will forever shroud the accident involving Scholl , only further confirming the inherent risks and danger that come with efforts to capture thrilling aerial feats on film.

'American Made' Has Seen a Resurgence in Popularity on Streaming Services

Six years after its release, American Made has made waves on streaming platforms , particularly Netflix, in which it held a position in the service's Top 10 Movies for weeks. There is no simple explanation for why a film or TV show from yesteryear sees a resurgence among viewers, but Tom Cruise's reassertion as a cinematic force in recent years is a likely factor. Between Mission: Impossible - Fallout and the unexpectedly massive box office performance of Top Gun: Maverick , the 61-year-old superstar is enjoying a well-deserved career renaissance after a period of lukewarm reception among audiences. American Made is one of Cruise's most breezy and watchable efforts in a forty-year career , balancing its real-life narrative basis with a playful sense of humor and irreverence for its subject and lead character. And, of course, its status as a true-crime film can't hurt as it streams on a service well-known as a haven for such non-fiction fare. Even so, understanding the tragic context surrounding the film's creation remains important and sobering.

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