The families of two pilots killed while making a movie starring Tom Cruise are partially blaming the actor for their deaths, according to People.

New court documents show the families allege Cruise and director Doug Liman's negligence partly led to a plane crash that killed the two pilots and injured a third.

Three of the pilots working on the movie American Made were in a twin-engine Piper Smith Aerostar 600 when it went down in the mountains in September 2015.

DAVID JAMES Tom Cruise with Domhnall Gleeson (left) in American Made. Former drug airstrips in Colombia were used to make the film.

Alan Purwin and Carlos Berl died on the scene, while Jimmy Lee Garland lost feeling in the lower half of his body.

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The families of Purwin and Berl, who brought a lawsuit against the producers of the film, claimed Cruise and Liman wanted a "high-risk, action-packed motion picture," which contributed to the circumstances that lead to the crash.

UNIVERSAL Tom Cruise and Doug Liman on the set of American Made.

"Lapses in planning, co-ordinating, scheduling, and flight safety that were the defendants' responsibility resulted in an unqualified and unprepared pilot being pressed into service for a dangerous flight in a vintage aircraft across an unfamiliar mountain pass in bad weather," the documents state, according to People.

The families of Berl and Purwin are also suing one another, and the Berl family is also suing the survivor, Garland.

Neither Cruise nor Liman are named as defendants in the suit.

SUPPLIED Tom Cruise in the movie American Made.

The lawsuit also alleged an executive producer sent a formal complaint to the insurance company about the star and director.

"DL [Director Doug Liman] and TC [Cruise] [are] adding entire scenes and aerial shots on the fly. Had to bring in Uni Safety to help wrangle them. In the last 48 hours this has become the most insane s*** I've ever dealt with," the complaint reads, according to the lawsuit.

An email written by Purwin and included in court documents describes the movie as "the most dangerous project I've ever encountered".

Universal Pictures and Cruise did not comment to People on the lawsuit.

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