Tom Cruise reportedly plans to avoid traffic chaos amid the M25 closure by flying his Mission Impossibe cast and crew over the bottleneck in a helicopter.
The 61-year-old actor is a trained pilot and The Sun reported on Friday that he is prepared to fly cast and crew to Longcross Studios to help progress filming of the eighth Mission Impossible film.
Cruise has been working at the filming location this week to try and meet a 2025 deadline for the next film, where he will again play agent Ethan Hunt, according to The Sun. The seventh film, Dead Reckoning Part One came out last year.
Longcross is near junctions 10 and 11 of the M25 - where the motorway is closed this weekend - and the nearby railway station is one of the least used in Surrey.
Cruise has reportedly readied a helipad at Battersea in south west London.
The need for action follows on from filming in Derby.
Production on MI:8, which has not been officially given a title but is likely to be called Dead Reckoning Part Two, was beset by delays due to the Hollywood writers’ strike.
Neither Cruise nor Longcross Studios have confirmed the action but fans were quick to point out the similarity between this and the response that Ethan Hunt might have favoured.
“Love him or hate him, Tom Cruise got b*lls,” one said.
One simply tweeted: “No mission impossible!”
Cruise is well known for his stunts in the Mission Impossible and Top Gun franchises - and even in his 60s remains committed to performing himself without a double.
The Evening Standard has approached Longcross Studios for comment.
