10 Recent Movies That Were Forced To Shut Down Production (And Why)

7. Mission: Impossible Fallout

Mission Impossible Fallout Tom Cruise
Paramount

Considering the amount of dangerous stunts Tom Cruise pulls off in the name of entertainment, it was only a matter of time before one of them went wrong.

On that note, enter Mission: Impossible Fallout's rooftop chase sequence.

While this particular stunt - in which Cruise leapt between two buildings - didn't go wrong in a "oh my god, Tom Cruise is dead" sort of way, it did result in the actor breaking his ankle when he slammed into the side of his targeted building.

Contrary to popular belief, Cruise was always supposed to hit the building, rather than landing cleanly on top (as director Christopher McQuarrie explained to Empire, that would've been too "boring"). The slam wasn't the mistake: the mistake was simply that the actor's foot hit the wall at an unfortunate angle.

Anyhow, this whole debacle put Cruise out of action for a number of weeks, and forced the movie to take a break from filming while he recovered.

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