The makers of 'Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning -Part 1' built the bridge and went through multiple rounds of rehearsals. In a making video of the stunt, the team revealed that they had rehearsed every little aspect of the stunt, and would even end up doing 30 jumps in a day. They had calculated it to 500 skydivers and over 13000 motocross jumps. They used technology to build up a platform to ensure the jump goes as planned and is captured well by the cameras. 

In an earlier interview with Entertainment Tonight, Tom Cruise spoke about staring the shoot of the film with the stunt. "But preparing for something like that was years (of experience). I had been riding motorcycles since I was a little kid, raced cars and spent a lot of time with aerobatics, airplanes, helicopters, parachutes. But to figure out something like that… It is our understanding of story, understanding of camera, how to do something like that, it all kind of came in that moment. I had trained f0r it, you have to be razor sharp when you do something like that," the actor said. 

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“It was very important as we were prepping the film that the stunt actually was the first thing. Because I don’t want to drop that and shoot other things, and have my mind somewhere else. Everyone was prepped. You don’t want to be waking up in the middle of the night thinking, ‘I still have that left to do,'” he added.