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Wade L. Eastwood is an American stuntman, film director, and second unit director, most well known for his collaborations with actor Tom Cruise. He is unrelated to actor, producer, and director Clint Eastwood.

Career

He began working with actor Tom Cruise on the 2014 film Edge of Tomorrow, before Eastwood would serve as second unit director on Cruise's next big film Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015). He would later direct second unit on fellow Cruise star-vehicles Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016), The Mummy (2017), Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (2023), and is currently working on Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025).

He helped devise the bathroom fight between Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and August Walker (Henry Cavill) in Fallout and Hunt's motorcycle leap, the car chase throughout central Rome, and the climatic train sequence in Dead Reckoning.

Other films that he has worked on that have not involved Cruise include Men in Black: International, Inferno, Jumanji: The Next Level, Bridge of Dragons, and the television series Relic Hunter.

Filmography

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Year Title Stunts Second unit director Director
1999 Bridge of Dragons Yes Yes Issac Florentine
2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Yes No Simon West
Relic Hunter Yes Yes Various; television series, 16 episodes
2002 The Tuxedo Yes No Kevin Donovan
2003 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Yes No Jonathan Mostow
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life Yes No Jan de Bont
2006 16 Blocks Yes No Richard Donner
X-Men: The Last Stand Yes No Brett Ratner
2008 Jumper Yes No Doug Liman
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Yes No Steven Spielberg
Quantum of Solace Yes No Marc Forster
2009 Surrogates Yes No Jonathan Mostow
2010 Inception Yes No Christopher Nolan
The Town Yes No Ben Affleck
2013 World War Z Yes No Marc Forster
2014 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Yes No Kenneth Branagh
Godzilla Yes No Gareth Edwards
Edge of Tomorrow Yes No Doug Liman
Interstellar Yes No Christopher Nolan
2015 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Yes Yes Christopher McQuarrie
2016 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Yes Yes Edward Zwick
Inferno Yes Yes Ron Howard
2017 The Mummy Yes Yes Alex Kurtzman
2018 Mission: Impossible – Fallout Yes Yes Christopher McQuarrie
2019 Men in Black: International Yes Yes F. Gary Gray
Jumanji: The Next Level Yes Yes Jake Kasdan
2023 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Yes Yes Christopher McQuarrie
2025 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Yes Yes

References

  1. "WADE EASTWOOD: SECOND UNIT DIRECTOR AND STUNT CO-ORDINATOR". Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  2. "The Reaction Lab - Wade Eastwood". Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  3. "Defying Death With "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One" Second Unit Director & Stunt Coordinator Wade Eastwood". 5 January 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  4. "Wade Eastwood from iStunt". Retrieved 29 October 2024.
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