Defying Death With “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Second Unit Director & Stunt Coordinator Wade Eastwood

“The action evolves with the story — I’m not trying to invent action just to invent the next big stunt. It’s got to be emotionally engaging through action and fit the character,” says second unit director and stunt choreographer Wade Eastwood of Mission: Impossible’s brand of character-driven action choreography.

An accomplished fixed-wing and helicopter pilot, Eastwood is also a licensed skydiver, rescue scuba diver, black belt martial artist, master stunt driver,

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” is Now Available to Stream

The globe-trotting pyrotechnics and death-defying stunts of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One are now available for your viewing pleasure while seated comfortably on your couch. Writer/director Christopher McQuarrie and star Tom Cruise’s latest lunatic mission is available to stream on Prime Video ($19.99). Dead Reckoning Part One finds Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his IMF team tracking an A.I.-powered weapon called “The Entity” that could lead to global chaos if it ends up in the wrong hands.

Best of Summer 2023: How Editor Eddie Hamilton Cut “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” to the Quick

*It’s our annual “Best of Summer” look back at some (not all) of our favorite interviews from the past few months. This non-comprehensive look back includes the Barbenheimer phenomenon and the wonderful interviews that followed those two history-making films, chats with the talented folks behind Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, our profile of MPA Creator Award Recipient and filmmaker extraordinaire Gina Prince-Bythewood and more.

As it is, Tom Cruise’s new Mission: Impossible movie (now playing) runs a hefty two hours and forty-three minutes,

Best of Summer 2023: How “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” DP Fraser Taggart Pulled Off That Insane Train Sequence

*It’s our annual “Best of Summer” look back at some (not all) of our favorite interviews from the past few months. This non-comprehensive look back includes the Barbenheimer phenomenon and the wonderful interviews that followed those two history-making films, chats with the talented folks behind Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, our profile of MPA Creator Award Recipient and filmmaker extraordinaire Gina Prince-Bythewood and more.

Editors’ Note: This story contains mild spoilers.

How Editor Eddie Hamilton Cut “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” to the Quick

As it is, Tom Cruise’s new Mission: Impossible movie (now playing) runs a hefty two hours and forty-three minutes, but what people see in theaters actually represents a very slimmed-down version of the original cut that director Christopher McQuarrie screened for his friends. “It ran four hours,” says Cruise’s go-to editor Eddie Hamilton. “We watched it in a screening room with 40 people, and it was two and a half hours to Venice.

How “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” DP Fraser Taggart Pulled Off That Insane Train Sequence

Editors’ Note: This story contains mild spoilers.

The action in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One rolls out like a conveyor belt of delicious candy, leaving you wanting more. And director Christopher McQuarrie delivers those highs again and again. The global affair treks from Abu Dhabi for a swirling desert shootout and on to Rome for a goosebumps-inducing car chase, in, of course, an adorable yellow FIAT.

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Production Designer Gary Freeman Creates an Artificially Intelligent Palace

The bespoke work of production designer Gary Freeman on Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One might be overlooked by most moviegoers. A few of the reasons might be because of a then 60-year-old Tom Cruise out stunting himself yet again or the scene-stealing performances by Hayley Atwell as a wily thief and Pom Klementieff as a deliciously evil mercenary. Yet Freeman’s work insinuates itself in the action, his designs are intrinsic to the chaos as well as to the lusciousness of the foreign locations.

“Mission: Impossible 7” Director Christopher McQuarrie Reveals He Considered De-Aging Tom Cruise for a Scene

While you might consider Tom Cruise essentially ageless, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One co-writer/director Christopher McQuarrie admits he considered de-aging the ageless superstar for a scene.

McQuarrie was talking to Total Film about the seventh installment in the venerable franchise and revealed that he had a certain sequence in mind that would have required a younger version of Cruise’s Ethan Hunt.

“Originally, there had been a whole sequence at the beginning of the movie that was going to take place in 1989,”

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Reviews: Cruise & Co. Have Done It Again

Once the review embargo for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One was been lifted, the mission was clear for fans of the franchise—could they read the reviews about Dead Reckoning Part One without spoiling the film’s biggest thrills and without having their hopes for another action masterpiece deflated? We’ve done the review reading for you, and like Ethan Hunt driving his motorcycle off a cliff only to deploy a parachute and turn certain death into a BASE jump,

Mission: Must Watchable – 10 of the Biggest Remaining Summer Films

Now that June has given way to July, it is clear that summer is finally upon us. The sun is shining, bright, hot, and heavy. Birds are singing. Bees are buzzing. Dads around the country are grilling hot dogs for late-evening barbecues. And last but not least, the slate of this season’s upcoming films has given viewers much to look forward to.  

For movie lovers wishing to avoid the summer heat — either by hiding away in a theater for a few hours or by simply streaming at home — be sure to tune in to the films listed below.

New “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Images Include Closer Look at Tom Cruise’s Craziest Stunt

We now know why Tom Cruise and his Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One team filmed his insane motorcycle-into-BASE jump stunt on day one. The short answer—the stunt was so complex and difficult that, if something had gone wrong, at least it would have happened before they’d spent millions of dollars and many days and nights filming other parts of the film. Once successfully completed, the cast and crew could focus their full attention on the rest of the film without the highly difficult sequence looming in their near future.

Why Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Motorcycle Stunt Was Filmed Day One

Death, taxes, the physical laws of the universe, and Tom Cruise and his Mission: Impossible team topping whatever the craziest stunt in their previous film was with one even more death-defying—these are a few of the certain things in life. This is why, while it’s not surprising to hear that the most technically challenging and dangerous stunt Cruise and his team have attempted thus far is one they set up for Dead Reckoning Part One,

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Early Reactions Marvel at Jaw-Dropping Action Epic

Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt for the seventh film in the deathless Mission: Impossible franchise, and the early reactions hail yet another peerless action epic. After its star-studded world premiere in Rome on Monday evening at the Auditorium della Conciliazione—held up for 90 minutes due to a meeting between Cruise and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the Palazzo Chigi, no less—the show finally went on as Cruise, director and co-writer Christopher McQuarrie,

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Will Be Longest Film in Franchise History

Ethan Hunt’s about to go on his longest mission yet.

IGN reports that Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has made its runtime official, clocking in at two hours and 36 minutes, cruising past the previous longest film in the franchise, 2018’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which ran for two hours and 27 minutes. As the franchise has grown bolder, with more intense (and very often practical) stunts,

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Trailer Unveils Tom Cruise’s Deadliest Mission Yet

Tom Cruise’s final mission as Ethan Hunt is upon us. The official trailer for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has arrived, revealing Ethan Hunt’s deadliest mission yet. Sure, they’re all deadly, but this is a franchise that has consistently upped the stakes, both within the confines of the story and on a practical filmmaking level. If the Academy ever gets around to honoring the work of stunt coordinators and performers,

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Poster Reveals Tom Cruise’s Craziest Stunt

We have our first look at the official poster for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, and it teases what is arguably the most insane stunt Tom Cruise has done in the entire franchise.

This is a statement neither Paramount nor we would make lightly, considering the history of lunacy Cruise and the Mission: Impossible stunt team has compiled. The poster captures the moment after Cruise’s Ethan Hunt has ridden a motorcycle off a cliff—in order to BASE jump.

Watch Tom Cruise Perform the Most Insane Stunt in “Mission: Impossible” History

Paramount has released a look at what might be one of the most insane stunts in the history of cinema. Tom Cruise, legendary (among other reasons) for upping the ante with his stunts for each and every Mission: Impossible installment, can be seen in this new featurette pushing the envelope presumably as far as one would think it’s possible to go. The new stunt is for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning –