{"id":12221,"date":"2020-03-17T21:03:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T04:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=12221"},"modified":"2020-03-23T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T00:45:06","slug":"the-7-craziest-stunts-tom-cruise-has-ever-done-for-a-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/tom-cruise-best-stunts\/","title":{"rendered":"The 7 Craziest Stunts Tom Cruise Has Ever Done For A Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer, Tom Cruise will be feeling the need for speed again when Top Gun: Maverick<\/em><\/a> hits theaters on June 26th. The stunt-packed sequel to 1986’s Top Gun<\/em> sees Cruise reprising his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. This time around, he finds himself training a special detachment of recruits who have already graduated from Top Gun flight school. As you might have guessed, that means the aerial stunts are even more advanced \u2013 so much so that Cruise needed special clearance from the U.S. Navy<\/a> to perform a few particular scenes.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b9k7-P7Ur-g<\/p>\n

Cruise has a history of being a real-life adrenaline junkie, doing the vast majority of his own stunts over his long career and shaking off injuries and brushes with death like the rest of us shake off a stubbed toe. Even though he’s a few years shy of 60 now, he’s still pushing himself and still going strong, always willing to pull off ever-more eye-popping feats for the sake of an excellent action scene. To remind you of just how much he’s dared over the years, we’re rounding up all the best stunts of his career.<\/p>\n

In no particular order, here are all the scenes that have cemented Tom Cruise as arguably the world’s greatest action star.<\/p>\n

1. Scaling The Burj Khalifa In ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’<\/h2>\n