Actor Tom Cruise was injured after a stunt for his new “Mission Impossible 6” movie went awry. It’s not known how badly he was injured but footage of the accident shows him limping away and in evident pain. The stunt for the the latest installment of the long-running franchise was being filmed in London. It involved Cruise jumping between two buildings with the assistance of a safety harness.
The footage, published by TMZ, show the 55-year-old actor having problems with timing his leap and crashing into the side of the second building. The actor was able to pull himself up onto the roof of the building but was then seen limping heavily before collapsing next to members of the film’s crew.
Cruise is something of a rarity among Hollywood actors for insisting on performing many of his own stunts, the Guardian said. In 2011, the actor scaled the outside of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest building, for a scene from “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.” For 2015’s “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,” he was attached to the exterior of an Airbus 400 as it took off. Cruise also performed inside a zero-gravity plane for the recent reboot of “The Mummy.”
And it seems that Tom Cruise has recently had more than his share of movie making safety problems.
American Made is an upcoming biographical crime film starring Tom Cruise. The film is based on the life of Barry Seal, a former TWA pilot who became a drug smuggler in the 1980s and was recruited later on by the DEA to provide intelligence. It is set to be released on September 29, 2017.
A twin-engine Piper Smith Aerostar 600, had been ferrying three pilots who were working on a film: Alan Purwin, 51, one of Hollywood’s most sought-after helicopter stunt operators; Carlos Berl, 58, a well-qualified airman who knew how to navigate the red tape of the plane import-export business; and Georgia native Jimmy Lee Garland, 55, who could fly and repair just about anything. The flight took off after a long day of filming underway for weeks in the hills in northeast Colombia, near the border with Panama. This early-evening flight was supposed to be a short taxi ride home.
Instead it crashed in foggy and cloudy conditions in the Ciolombian mountains. The only person to survive the crash was Garland, who suffered injuries to his legs, arms, face and chest
Relatives of Purwin sued the movie’s production companies – including Imagine Entertainment and Cross Creek Pictures – as well as the estate of Berl. Their suit alleges that Berl was piloting the plane at the time of the crash even though he lacked the skills to do so.
Berl’s estate countersued, claiming Berl informed producers and other parties related to the film that he had insufficient experience to fly the aircraft. The estate also alleges that the flight wasn’t safely planned, prepared or supervised.
These accidents are the latest in a series of deadly tragedies that have occurred on film sets.
A Los Angeles Times report in March found a sharp rise in catastrophic injuries on film sets in recent years. There were 20 deaths in the U.S. related to motion picture and television production for the five years that ended in December 2014, double the number of fatalities during the previous five-year period.