Wade Eastwood

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

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