BERLIN (AP) - Eleven extras were injured during the filming of a new movie starring Tom Cruise, police said Monday.
The 11 men, along with a companion who escaped injury, fell off the back of a truck on Sunday night. Police said in a statement that a bolt on a side panel of the truck apparently came loose as the vehicle turned.
Germany's Bild daily reported that Cruise himself was not involved in the weekend filming.
The extras were taken to a hospital, where all but one of them required only outpatient treatment. Filming work was stopped.
The movie, provisionally titled "Valkyrie," stars Cruise as Germany's most famous anti-Hitler plotter, Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg.
His casting has attracted controversy in Germany because Cruise is one of the best known adherents of Scientology, which the German government considers a commercial enterprise that takes advantage of vulnerable people.
Some critics maintain that one of its members should not be playing what some consider one of the Nazi era's few heroes.
The weekend accident happened during filming of scenes around the Finance Ministry, which was once the Nazis' aviation ministry.
4 comments:
Man, imagine how chilling it would be to be in Germany and see all these people dressed as Nazis!?
Ooh, freaky.
Is this the beginning of a cursed production I wonder?
That happened to me once! Well, actually, the vehicle was a gas-powered pickup style golf cart. We used it to get around the golf course when I had Bill Murray's Caddyshack job one summer. They were pretty hilarious.
Anyhoo, Steve Romano was driving it and nearly drove us into a brook, cranking the thing left at the last second. I was sitting in the back and before I realized what had happened I was rolling around in the grass, completely unhurt. Did I say "that happened to me once?" I was totally lying.
Thinking back, I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that teenagers were allowed to zip around in those things. On one hand, teenagers are the worst drivers in the world and think they're the best. On the other hand, this was happening on an open golf course, which is far less dangerous than the road -- and in vehicles whose maximum speed was probably about 15 mph.
Michelle Saracen fell out of a moving car once. Forget who was driving, probably some jerk we were hanging around with in high school. It was on one of the Wamponag Trail turn-around things, so luckily we weren't going too fast.
Plus she was drunk, so she kind of just rolled.
That memory is totally cracking me up right now.
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