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Tom Cruise Sets Guinness World Record for Burning Parachute Jumps

Tom Cruise earned the Guinness World Record for most burning parachute jumps.

A new 80-second promo clip for the movie shows Cruise plummeting earthward, his cheeks all flippy floppy, as he looks up to see his chute on fire. He then explains that he has about 10 seconds to pull of the stunt in order to survive in real life (which very much sounds like something his character, Ethan Hunt, would do in the movie.) Cruise filmed the stunt in Drakensberg, South Africa, leaping from a helicopter that was at least 7,500 feet over the ground; for some takes, he wore a 50-pound snorri camera rig.

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