Tom Cruise Earns Guinness World Record for Most Burning Parachute Jumps for “Mission: Impossible” Scene

Tom Cruise’s daredevil stunts are now successful nan history books. 

The action star, 62, now has a Guinness World Records title for astir burning parachute jumps by an individual, nan statement announced Thursday, June 5. Cruise pulled disconnected nan feat 16 times while filming Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.

Spoiler alert: In nan eighth installment of nan action-packed franchise, Cruise's super-spy Ethan Hunt has a climactic showdown pinch nemesis Gabriel (Esai Morales) successful nan skies. Fighting for possession of a rogue artificial intelligence known arsenic nan Entity, nan 2 alert 1940s biplanes supra canyons and fields successful South Africa’s Drakensberg upland range. 

The series ends pinch Ethan falling from 1 of nan planes arsenic it’s connected occurrence and breaking into pieces successful midair; he deploys a parachute only to person it burst into flames and disintegrate, forcing him to deploy nan backup parachute arsenic he plummets to nan ground. 

Cruise, a licensed skydiver, “leapt retired of a chopper 16 times while strapped to a parachute pre-soaked successful substance and lit ablaze, earlier cutting distant nan charred remnants of nan first chute and safely deploying a backup,” per nan Guinness World Records website. “No different character aliases stuntman has travel adjacent to that magnitude of death-defying drops.”

In immoderate of nan takes, Cruise and Mission: Impossible writer-director Christopher McQuarrie outfitted nan prima pinch a 50-pound camera rig attached to his body, capturing a close-up of Ethan’s fall. 

“Tom doesn't conscionable play action heroes — he is an action hero!” said Craig Glenday, nan organization’s editor-in-chief. “A ample portion of his occurrence tin beryllium chalked up to his absolute attraction connected authenticity and pushing nan boundaries of what a starring man tin do. It's an grant to beryllium capable to admit his utter fearlessness pinch this caller Guinness World Records title.”

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Cruise is nary alien to Guinness World Records titles. The Oscar nominee besides has nan favoritism of being nan character pinch nan astir consecutive $100-million-grossing movies for his 11 films betwixt 2012’s Jack Reacher and 2025’s Final Reckoning. Glenday called him “the astir successful starring action leader astatine nan worldwide container office.”

Following its Cannes Film Festival premiere successful May, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is successful theaters now. It besides stars Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff and Angela Bassett. For much connected nan franchise, including exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes photos, PEOPLE’s typical edition is retired now.