Tom Cruise has taken a brief break from filming “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two” to offer the most Tom Cruise-style video message you could think of to thank audiences.
Cruise is on a plane, alongside director Christopher McQuarrie, above the South African coastline where he thanks audiences for coming back to cinemas and for supporting “Top Gun: Maverick” throughout this year.
“Thank you for allowing us to entertain you, it truly is the honor of a lifetime,” says Cruise as he skydives out of a plane and signs off by remarking that he’s “running out of altitude” before offering best wishes for the holiday and going into a spin above the sea.
The video is to mark the occasion of the release of “Top Gun: Maverick” on the Paramount+ streaming service starting this Thursday December 22nd – a full seven months after the movie’s theatrical opening.
‘Maverick’ has been the year’s biggest cinema success story, raking in $1.488 billion from a $170 million budget. It’s the year’s highest-grossing film, Cruise’s highest-grossing film, and one of the most critically acclaimed studio releases of the year.
One of the few lingering questions is how much potential awards play the film will have, with a Best Picture Oscar nomination seen as a possibility.
Cruise will continue filming the second of the “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning” films into the new year ahead of the first of them arriving in cinemas next Summer.
