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How ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning’ Pulled Off that Epic Train Scene: ‘Getting All of the Paperwork Through Was Huge’
‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning' cinematographer Fraser Taggart explains how Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell pulled off the film's epic train scene.
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’s” infamous train scene was meant to take place aboard the Orient Express, as it roars through the Swiss Alps; which for production is a big request if you’re not shooting on location. Not only did Taggart have a good relationship with Norway after “we filmed ‘Fallout’ there, the train scene and location needed to work with the motorcycle jump, but we found a railway in Norway from where we were going to shoot the motorcycle jump, and it all worked out.” In the film, Tom Cruise performed a stunt that has been billed as the most death-defying one of his acting career thus far. She just leaped at the end to get her landing on the second carriage but then disappears out of view from the camera.” He adds, “She was obviously buzzing with adrenaline, and I remember Tom saying, ‘You fucking did that girl, that was brilliant.”
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