Tom Cruise film suspended in Spain after bulls injure two

Nov 23, 2009, 11:04 GMT

Cadiz, Spain - The shooting of a Tom Cruise movie in southern Spain has been suspended after bulls featuring in the film ran loose and injured two people, local media reported Monday.

Cruise and co-star Cameron Diaz have not yet arrived on set in Cadiz for the filming of the movie Knight and Day.

But two stunt actors representing them were on Sunday due to 'flee' from bulls in a spectacle imitating the northern Spanish Pamplona bull runs.

Seven of the 10 bulls knocked over protective walls and roamed loose on the streets, causing slight injuries to a female passer-by. Another woman was treated for shock.

The film's producing company Calle Cruzada said the situation had been under control, but the city authorities said the bulls had represented a security risk. They suspended the shooting of the film until security was guaranteed.

In the Pamplona bull runs, daredevil men run with the beasts in the city every morning for a week in July.

The spectacle was made famous by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.