Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol -

When a stunt coordinator told Cruise the climb was too dangerous, he simply hired a different one. 📂 Secret Dossier: Essential Missions

Cruise performed the stunt 2,717 feet in the air. Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol

The movie is structured as a "string of twinkly lights"—exotic locations held together by a high-stakes plot: When a stunt coordinator told Cruise the climb

The film’s centerpiece is the Burj Khalifa climb, where Tom Cruise famously scaled the world's tallest building in Dubai. which were later digitally erased.

To film it, the production had to remove 26 windows from the tower and install custom tracks for safety harnesses, which were later digitally erased.