Stunt gone right

As the most impressive stunt of the movie, the HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) jump in ‘Mission: Impossible - Fallout’ required a lot of planning to make sure everything went right.

All in all, the HALO stunt needed a full year of planning, and saw the crew build a custom oxygen helmet with the help of the UK’s Royal Air Force to rehearse the sequence - in which Tom Cruise and Henry Cavill travelled at speeds up 265 to 320 kilometres-per-hour over the course of the seven kilometre jump.

Cruise himself took to the skies five times a day to practise the jump, with one in the morning, three in the afternoon, and one at dusk.

In total, Cruise, Cavill and camera operator Craig O’Brien had jumped 106 times to get three possible takes for the movie.

While the HALO jump certainly was breathtaking, several cast members genuinely believed Cruise could die when they watched the stunt from the ground.

Simon Pegg later said: “It is a daily stress going to work with him, because you don't know if you are going to see him tomorrow.”