Tom Cruise M:I6 injuries confirmed by Paramount.
Tom Cruise is more seriously injured than previously thought after his accident on the set of Mission Impossible 6.
The actor who is well known for performing many of his own stunts suffered injuries when a stunt went wrong this week. TMZ released a video that showed Cruise crashing into the side of a building when he was leaping from one structure to another and at the time it was presumed that the actor had fallen short. But this appears not to be the case.
The film’s director Christopher McQuarrie told Empire,
“The stunt was never designed for Tom to jump from rooftop to rooftop. He was always supposed to slam into the side of the 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. And on the fourth try he hit the building at a slightly different angle and he broke his ankle.”
The actor who was attached to a safety line was clearly seen to be in pain and was assisted away from the location by production staff appearing to have sustained an injury to his ankle or foot as he struggled to put weight on it. This was later confirmed in an official statement from Paramount;
“During production on the latest Mission: Impossible film, Tom Cruise broke his ankle while performing a stunt. Production will go on hiatus while Tom makes a full recovery and the film remains on schedule to open July 27 2018. Tom wants to thank you all for your concern and support and can’t wait to share the film with everyone next summer.”
It would appear that Cruise knew he had sustained the injury and carried on with the shot. McQuarrie also stated to Empire,
“He knew the instant that he hit the building that his ankle was broken. You can see it on his face. So he got up and powered through the shot, and then he got off-camera and as soon as he knew he was off-camera he went down.”
It seems that the scene may even feature in the film and according to the director he will be fighting to get it into the finished product. Although other sources have claimed that the injury could cause delays of up to three months the director seemed more optimistic;
“Today, we got the full prognosis and found out that it was actually fine, could have been much worse. And everything was OK. I’m not at all concerned about what this is going to do to our release date. The good news is, Tom is going to make a full recovery. We’ll assess what there is to be shot. And what we can shoot, and then what we’ll do is once we’ve shot through that we’ll go on a hiatus and then I’ll shift my attention over to editorial. We’ve already shot a huge chunk of the movie so you’re just taking a big chunk of post-production and moving it up sooner. Then we go back to shooting when the hiatus is over, which is to the full benefit of the movie.”