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Tom Cruise ordered to hire heavyweight bodyguards after string of death threats from former employee
- The A-list actor, 60, and the Mission: Impossible filmmaker, 53, have taken over a security team
- A stunt producer was fired from the film, causing the problem
- The resignation sparked ‘angry protests’ and ‘fear of further reprisals’, a source said
- The fired employee has sued Cruise, McQuarrie and Paramount Studios
- A source linked to the film described the employee as ‘an angry ex-employee’
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Tom Cruise has hired a security team after he and director Christopher McQuarrie received a series of threats from a former employee.
The A-list actor, 60, and the Mission: Impossible filmmaker, 53, acquired the services of the security team after a stunt producer was fired, sparking “angry protests” and “fear of further reprisals.” The sun reported.
An insider at the film told the outlet: “Tom and Chris are still working on Mission: Impossible 8, mainly in the UK, but it’s gotten more and more unpleasant with a former crew member and now it’s a matter of not taking any chances.”
The latest: Tom Cruise, 60, has hired a security team after he and director Christopher McQuarrie received a series of threats from a former employee. He was caught in May in France
“It’s a bit of art to mimic life, on set it’s all about heavy protection and threats and now the same thing is happening behind the cameras.”
According to the outlet, the employee had been tasked with finding filming locations for scenes — including one involving a train accident — but his plans were not translated into the film.
The Top Gun: Maverick leader “because of his fame, he’s usually used to having security teams around him,” the insider said, “but for Chris it’s something very new,” because “nobody takes risks.”
The fired employee has filed a lawsuit against Cruise, McQuarrie and Paramount Studios, the outlet reports, and has made allegations about Russian oligarchs funding Cruise’s work and a related FBI investigation into Paramount over the funding.
Cruise was captured on the promotion path for South Korea’s Top Gun: Maverick in June
Christopher McQuarrie has worked extensively with Cruise and directed his films, including Jack Reacher from 2012, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation from 2015 and Mission: Impossible – Fallout from 2018. They were shot in Cannes in May.
The source noted that while “it’s all gotten really nasty… those involved in the movies are sure everything is all right, he’s just an angry ex-employee.”
Dailymail.com has reached out to Cruise’s representatives for comment on this story.
McQuarrie has worked extensively with Cruise and has directed his films, including Jack Reacher from 2012, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation from 2015 and Mission: Impossible – Fallout from 2018.
They are currently working on the two-part film series Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, which will hit theaters in 2023 and 2024.
Cruise comes from the wildly successful sequel Top Gun: Maverick, which was stopped during the pandemic from hitting huge box office totals of $714 million domestically and $1.48 billion worldwide after its release last May.