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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie has revealed the sequel will feature its most dangerous stunt yet.
Tom Cruise will return as the iconic superspy Ethan Hunt next June, which follows the release of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One earlier this month.
The eighth instalment in the long-running franchise will continue to follow Hunt as he attempts to take down the AI threat known as The Entity.
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In a recent interview with Collider, filmmaker McQuarrie said that the sequel will involve a daring underwater sequence, during which Cruise held his breath for as long as six and a half minutes.
"Tom and I are constantly re-evaluating our own work and asking ourselves how we could have done it better," he said.
"We've done underwater sequences previously. We've worked underwater in Edge of Tomorrow, and we worked underwater in Rogue Nation, and we left very dissatisfied with those sequences.
"And we analyse why we were dissatisfied. What were all the factors working against us? The biggest being, not having real knowledge in that area. Everything you're looking at in Dead Reckoning is the application of knowledge from previous sequences."
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On the topic of filming the scene, McQuarrie called it "physically punishing", adding that he would not "recommend it to anybody who doesn't want to make a lifestyle out of it".
Despite the hard work demonstrated behind the scenes, Dead Reckoning Part One recently become the new owner of an unwanted box office record.
The movie suffered the biggest second-weekend box office drop in the series' history, with an estimated 64% drop in gross earnings after it took $19.5 million domestically – though its second weekend did coincide with the releases of Barbie and Oppenheimer.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is out in cinemas now.
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