The estates of 2 pilots, who died while working on a Tom Cruise film in 2015, have blamed the actor for the deaths & filed a case against the production companies involved in the project.

 

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In fresh court documents, the families of Alan Purwin & Carlos Berl claim that it was Cruise & director Doug Liman's desire for "High-risk, action-packed" scenes in American Made that led to the filming accident.

The demands of filming in Colombia, together with Cruise & director Doug Liman's eagerness for multiple takes of lavish flying sequences, added hours to every filming day & added days to the schedule," the court documents stated according to The Blast.

While not directly accused, Cruise & Liman have been blamed for purportedly being "Negligent" for allowing the plane to take off in bad weather conditions.

The wrongful death case has been filed against Imagine Entertainment, Vendian Entertainment & Cross Creek Pictures.

According to extra documents, Purwin also wrote an email describing the bad conditions under which they were working & described the project as "The most dangerous project I've ever encountered".

Neither Tom Cruise nor Universal Pictures have released any statement about these claims.