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| Tom Cruise breaks two bones as stunt goes wrong and will need months to recover.
"Mission: Impossible 6" has halted filming after Tom Cruise
broke his ankle in a botched stunt, the director confirmed Wednesday, while
vowing not to push the release date back.
Cruise, known for performing his own death-defying stunts, was injured
as he leapt between buildings while attached to cables, slamming into a
concrete wall.
"M:I6" director Christopher McQuarrie took to social media to
assuage fears that the movie's planned July 27, 2018 release date would have to
be pushed back.
"Thank you all for your support and concern. Tom is on the mend and
MI6 is on track for 07.27.2018," he tweeted after visiting the 55-year-old
A-lister.
McQuarrie who directed Cruise in "Mission: Impossible 5" (2015)
and "Jack Reacher" (2012) posted a link to an article with British
film magazine Empire in which he said his star was "in very good
spirits."
He rejected reports that Cruise had fallen short on the jump, filmed in
central London on Saturday, maintaining that the star was always supposed to
slam into the side of the target building.
"What happened is a matter of coordinating what Tom is doing with
what the camera is doing, which means you have to do it a number of
times," the director said.
"And on the fourth try, he hit the building at a slightly different
angle and he broke his ankle. He knew the instant that he hit the building that
his ankle was broken. You can see it on his face."
- Hair-raising moments -
"Mission: Impossible 6" co-starring Simon Pegg, Henry Cavill,
Rebecca Ferguson, Angela Bassett and Alec Baldwin has two more months of
filming scheduled.
McQuarrie told Empire the length of the required hiatus had yet to be
determined, but vowed he would "move heaven and earth" to ensure that
the fateful fourth take got into the movie.
The director added that he was rearranging the order of the shoot and
using any delay as an opportunity to "look at what we've shot and reassess
the movie, which is a luxury you don't normally have."
Cruise is admired in the industry for his adventurous attitude to
filmmaking, which over the years has involved some hair-raising moments on set.
Cruise's co-stars in summer blockbuster "The Mummy" revealed
earlier this year the actor is not just single-minded when it comes to do doing
his own stunts, but cajoles his fellow cast members to get involved too.
"We jump off buildings and towns explode, and Tom really does it
all, and he insists his cast do it too," added Jake Johnson, 39, who plays
Cruise's sidekick in action thriller.
"Yes, I got hurt. My character dies, I almost died. We'd do a stunt
and it would hurt, and I'm like, 'I think something went wrong because it hurt'
and he'd go 'Well yeah we jumped off a building, dummy.'"
Paramount, the studio distributing
"M:I6," and Cruise's representatives did not respond to requests for
comment.
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