Tom Cruise gets world record with burning parachute – DiePresse.com

Hollywood star Tom Cruise made it into the Guinness Book of Records. The 62-year-old actor owes the award 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 Records said to X. Cruise jumped 16 times for an action scene from a helicopter.

He lit his parachute soaked with fuel and at the end made the safe landing with a reserve umbrella. Cruise posted a video of the shooting on social media. 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.

Cruise performs Stunts himself

« 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 fear 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. (APA/dpa)