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Stuntman Sues "Mission" Team
Tom Cruise's next mission: fending off a lawsuit.
A stuntman who suffered serious burns while working on Mission: Impossible III is suing Cruise's C/W Productions, distributor Paramount Pictures and various crew members for negligence.
In a complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, Steven Scott Wheatley claims a pyrotechnic accident on June 6, 2005 left him with burns over 60 percent of his body. He says the stunt coordinator and second unit director breached Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations by failing to take proper safety precautions, including providing fire protection suits and keeping extinguishers nearby.
The incident, filmed on the Agua Dulce Movie Ranch in Los Angeles, involved the controlled detonation of a Chevy Suburban. But the stunt "malfunctioned," sparking a "gasoline bomb" that engulfed Wheatley without warning in a "ball of fire." (The court documents can be found online at TMZ.com.)
Wheatley, a native of Ventura, California, was assisting with the pyrotechnics and was standing a few feet from the vehicle at the time of explosion. He ended up hospitalized with severe third-degree burns, debilitating injuries that rendered him "sick" and "disabled" and caused him "pain, suffering and anxiety" about his future. The accident, he says, also resulted in a loss of "marital relations" between him and his wife, Mary.
The suit claims that each of the defendants "knew the pyrotechnic device was defective" but went ahead with the detonation anyway.
Wheatley is seeking damages for medical expenses associated with the burns and future care, in addition to loss of earnings, pain and suffering, legal costs and other unspecified damages.
Reps for Paramount and C/W Productions declined to comment, citing the pending litigation.
The studio's most hotly anticipated summer blockbuster, Mission: Impossible III has a troubled production history. The film endured numerous delays due to the departure of directors David Fincher and Joe Carnahan, and Cruise's subsequent decision to make Steven Spielberg's remake War of the Worlds his first priority before reprising his role as Ethan Hunt.
The spy sequel finally got rolling after Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner recruited Alias and Lost mastermind J.J. Abrams to take the helm, making his feature film debut.
Costarring Keri Russell, Ving Rhames and newly minted Oscar winner Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Mission: Impossible 3 hits theaters on May 5.
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