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I reckon it's fake news (!) that the halo jump took 100 takes. That sounds ridiculous. Can you imagine the Moonraker pre-credit skydive taking 100 takes? Nope. The 100 takes claim sounds out of the Donald Trump book:'Wild Exaggeration And Other Crazy Claims!;' (Now available at all online book stores.) :P
As for CGI, it's used so much in modern films you don't even notice it. For example I was watching Tomb Raider HD rip and I compared the picture quality to the downloaded trailer. In the boardroom meeting the CGI team altered the background in the right window. They changed the skyline for the completed film. Have no idea why, it looked fine in the trailer. It's amazing what subtle changes can be done in films. We'll have to wait and see if the halo jump is all 'real' or if it's been enhanced with CGI. Obviously it's good PR sense for Cruise and the rest to claim it's all real. Having said all that, any actor that is prepared to jump 1000s of feet, I guess that shows real passion or some craziness! Roger Moore would have let his stuntmen do all that stuff. :) Roger rarely used stuntmen for the love scenes, though!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/04/26/tom-cruises-insane-mission-impossible-high-altitude-plunge/552942002/
http://www.slashfilm.com/mission-impossible-fallout-stunt-plane/
"Between training for the stunt and shooting, Cruise jumped from a C-17 military plane a total of 106 times to get the three takes he and director Christopher McQuarrie wanted."
You could really only do 2-3 jumps a day of that style, too. It's a lot of time and money, as well as immensely hard work.
Remember the time he said he held his breath under water for 6.5 minutes? That one always struck me as odd, especially seeing as how CGI heavy that particular scene was in Rogue Nation.
https://mashable.com/2016/10/24/tom-cruise-holds-breath/?europe=true#t0sOwquuiaq5
Re Tom holding his breath in MI5: I dropped any thought about how long he might have held his breath the moment I realised the sequence has a lot of cuts, so what does it matter how long he held his breath.
It doesn't matter in the slightest because it surely wasn't true.
Me three! :)
Quite right. Not 100 takes, 100 jumps.
Which is about the amount it would take for Cruise to be able to be convincing in the takes where you can see his face. Speaking as the son of a competitive chutist.
I saw it a few months back and it's as great as ever.
I'm due a rewatch of the legendary Bourne series soon and will get to it once I can locate a reasonably priced 4K set (still trying to find the Die Hard reasonably priced too and want to get to it before Skyscraper is released).