Dubai’s Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest man-made structure ever built and that’s Tom Cruise sitting on top of it where Gizmodo reports he sat for about an hour as a helicopter circled several times very close. He’s there shooting a scene for his upcoming film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol under the direction of Brad Bird and the photographer who took the shot, Gerald Donovan, told Gizmodo the following:
He was up there for about an hour. Chopper circled several times very close. He’s the only one that you can see, but on a video I have, you can see that there were other people up there but hiding down the spire. Lots and lots of filming was happening — both from the chopper and from below (check out the guy in the cradle hanging lower down the Burj on the left hand side).
They were filming a 360 degree pan of him. My guess is that it’s for promo, and maybe not for the film itself (in all the swinging shots he’s wearing 3/4 length trousers. Here he’s wearing jeans I think).
After taking an elevator up most of the building’s 2,717 feet (.514 miles), he had to climb 443 feet (1.5 football fields) of ladder at the very end to get to his final position.
Previously I featured video of Cruise swinging from the side of the building which you can watch here. He’s obviously going all out for this film.
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is currently set for a December 16, 2011 release.
