Tom Cruise breaks world record with burning parachute
Hollywood star Tom Cruise (62) made it into the Guinness Book of Records. The actor owes the actor to a spectacular stunt as a special agent Ethan Hunt in « Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning »: He has now completed « the most jumps with a burning parachute », the Guinness Book of the Records announced on the platform X. Cruise had jumped 16 times for an action scene from a helicopter, lit his parachute soaked with fuel and at the end made the safe landing with a reserve screen.
Cruise posted a video of the filming on X. In it, he discusses details about the end of the stunt with the film team and says with a grin on the face that they would « of course » not take any risk. Then follow in fast cuts a few seconds of film material from the 16 jumps with the burning parachute.
« Tom not only plays action heroes – he is an action hero! » Craig Glenday, editor -in -chief of Guinness World Records, was cited in a message. As an actor, he jumps borders. It is an honor to honor the « complete fearlessness » of cruise with the world record title.
Since 1996, Cruise has been chasing across the world in the “Mission: Impossible” film series as an agent Ethan Hunt. He performs most of the breakneck stunts himself. So he raced through oncoming traffic in Paris on the motorcycle, hung on a flying aircraft and climbed the facade of the Skelkratz Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
The new film by director Christopher Mcquarrie, a continuation of «Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning» (2023), celebrated its premiere in May in May. The blockbuster is the end of the almost 30 years of agent saga.
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