Tom Cruise is said to have chartered biplanes for some of the Mission: Impossible franchise’s “more costly stunts.”

As work on the much-anticipated eighth film – which is estimated to have cost a record £290 million – gets begun, the Hollywood actor, 59, is claimed to be planning some of the ‘largest’ stunts yet seen in the action spy series.

Tom was observed taking flying lessons on a 1941 Boeing B75N1 Stearman biplane at Duxford Airfield in Cambridge in November.

According to the source, “The action on the production is only just getting started and Tom is going to be working on some of the franchise’s biggest and most expensive stunts to date.”

They added, “Tom learned to fly the [bi-planes] and now he’ll put all that into practice.”

He continues to oppose Paramount’s idea for a 45-day theatrical window before streaming on Paramount+, rather than the typical three-month run, according to an exposé published by The Hollywood Reporter last week.

The term ‘day-and-date’ denotes a film’s distribution on several media, most often theatres and home video, as many blockbusters have done since the pandemic.

At the time, the two decided to put their differences aside until M:I 7 was completed.

Multiple times owing to Covid-19 outbreaks, production was interrupted, and it was shut down for the seventh time in June 2021 when Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie, as well as a number of others, tested positive.

As per studio veteran told THR, “You would make [‘Mission: Impossible’] 7 and 8 even if you had a full slate.”

The source added, “They weren’t crazy expensive by the standards of Marvel, of Bond.”

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