Tom Cruise Saves Cameraman During Stunt In Mission: Impossible 7 Set Photos

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Tom Cruise is a real life hero for saving a cameraman during a stunt sequence for Mission: Impossible 7. After Cruise’s well-publicized tirade over COVID protocol violations on the production, shooting on the seventh Mission: Impossible adventure appears to be clipping along without much issue. Unfortunately, COVID continues to cause release schedule reshuffling as the movie was recently delayed to 2022.

Mission: Impossible 7 of course is the follow-up to 2018’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which became one of the most acclaimed and successful movies in the entire long-running spy series. That film did meet with plenty of production problems though, including a stunt-related injury to Cruise that caused a long delay. Though he’s 58 now, Cruise shows no sign of letting up when it comes to the kind of death-defying activities that caused him to be injured on the last Mission: Impossible. Indeed, Cruise enjoys performing his signature stunts so much that he’s reportedly been told multiple times to stop smiling while he’s shooting them (as Ethan Hunt is supposed to be in grave danger, not on vacation).

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In the latest harrowing story from the set of a Mission: Impossible movie, it’s not Cruise who was put in danger but one of his crew members. As reported by the Daily Mail, Cruise, co-star Hayley Atwell and company were doing a stunt atop a moving train when Cruise noticed one of his cameramen beginning to fall from his position on the side of the car. As documented by photographers, Cruise was able to get to the cameraman and help pull him back to safety while a worried Atwell looked on.

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Trains indeed seem to be a big part of the action in Mission: Impossible 7 as there have been multiple behind-the-scenes images and videos leaked showing sequences being filmed atop moving locomotives. The stunt in which the cameraman was briefly imperiled in fact involves both Cruise and Atwell, who in the new BTS pictures can both be seen running across the train’s coal car while attached to safety harnesses. Atwell indeed seems game to put herself in danger right alongside Cruise.

Thankfully for everyone involved there were no injuries during this particular mishap, which definitely ranks as a minor blip compared to some of the other things that have gone wrong on recent Mission: Impossible movies. As of now, the Mission: Impossible 7 train continues to chug along with a new release date set for 2022. And of course the seventh Ethan Hunt adventure won’t be the last for Cruise as Mission: Impossible 8 is also being planned. Cruise also insanely is set to go into space for a future movie production, an act which will definitely surpass all his other prior stunts. It remains to be seen how much longer Cruise can continue defying death, but as he’s now officially pushing sixty, it seems at some point soon he will have to settle down and find some less strenuous roles to tackle.