XM2 Makes It Possible - Capturing The Biggest Stunt In Cinema History

XM2 has covered the biggest stunt in cinema history for Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.”

The upcoming film is the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise and the XM2 team worked closely with Director, Christopher McQuarrie and Cinematographer, Fraser Taggart to capture the epic action from every angle. This stunt required over a year of preparation, intricate planning, and aerial coordination to achieve the necessary level of camera precision.

Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt and kicked off principal photography in Norway by launching his motorbike off a cliff and parachuting to the ground, with multiple drones and a helicopter filming the primary shots.

XM2 utilized multiple heavy lift drones as well as several smaller drones simultaneously to capture behind the scenes footage. These aircraft enabled the Director and Cinematographer to be flexible in their framing, shooting from various angles and altitudes.

XM2 also provided a multi-camera array to capture background plates. Utilizing seven, synchronized ARRI Alexa Mini LF cameras with Zeiss CP3 lenses, enabled the capture of an ultra-wide field of view at ultra-high resolution for use in post-production. As well as aerial footage and arrays, XM2 provided LIDAR and photogrammetry capture of environments and structures for the Visual Effects department.