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- See Tom Cruise defy death in exclusive 'Mission: Impossible' deleted scene</p>
<p>Brian Truitt, USA TODAY August 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM</p>
<p>Tom Cruise's daredevil "Mission: Impossible" stunts are so cool, it's hard to believe that anything gets left on the cutting-room floor.</p>
<p>But editing is important to the filmmaking process, and director Christopher McQuarrie had hard decisions to make in crafting "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning" (available to buy Aug. 19 on digital platforms).</p>
<p>One of the biggest moments in the action adventure is a dizzying sequence involving Cruise's superspy Ethan Hunt and a harrowing biplane chase, and USA TODAY is exclusively premiering a nifty aerial scene deleted from the film.</p>
<p>Near the end of this eighth "Mission" installment, Ethan is in airborne pursuit of villainous Gabriel (Esai Morales), and has to navigate – in death-defying manner – going from his biplane to Gabriel's mid-air. McQuarrie filmed 400 hours of footage that ended up being distilled down to a mere 15 minutes.</p>
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<p>Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning."</p>
<p>"Each one of these shots represents a great deal of difficulty, a lot of danger, a lot of coordination between multiple aircraft, a lot of skill from the pilots, and always looking for ways to show that is Tom flying the plane and not a stuntman – which is not usually the case," McQuarrie says in a voiceover introducing the nixed sequence.</p>
<p>It's the first of a two-part stunt where Ethan tries to climb onto Gabriel's plane, our hero's foot hits the control stick, and the plane goes into a nasty roll where Ethan is hanging out of the thing precariously before getting his bearings back.</p>
<p>McQuarrie's film editor, Eddie Hamilton, kept telling him it was "redundant," though the director "of course resisted that," McQuarrie says. But "it could go and so it went."</p>
<p>In addition to an array of deleted scenes, the "Final Reckoning" digital release includes a bunch of bonus features that dig into Cruise's stunt work, including notching a Guinness World Record for most burning parachute jumps by an individual.</p>
<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: See Tom Cruise defy death in 'Mission: Impossible' deleted scene</p>
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