Prowler at Cruise home was a drunk neighbour

A prowler at Tom Cruise’s house was hit by a stun gun fired by a security guard — but he turned out to be a drunk neighbour who may have entered the property mistakenly.

The confrontation occurred at Cruise’s Beverly Hills home in Los Angeles when the actor and his family were out. The guard saw Jason Sullivan, 41, “climbing a fence to gain access to the property” and used the stun gun to detain him for police.

The man was identified as a neighbour who lives in an adjacent property, and was intoxicated at the time. He was taken into custody for trespassing and treated in hospital.

Meanwhile, Cruise has revealed plans to make another sequel to the movie Mission: Impossible.

The 50-year-old actor believes audiences want to see more of his character, the spy Ethan Hunt.

“I started Mission: Impossible hoping I could make many of them. It’s a character that I can grow with. At that time it was the most expensive film in the history of Paramount Pictures, and the first film I was producing,” Contactmusic quoted Cruise as telling Total Film magazine.

“It’s been pretty exciting. Seeing an audience respond... to have that experience is really wonderful. I’ll make a bunch of those. I’ll make as many as people want to see... because they’re very challenging, and so much fun to make. We’re already working on different images. I love travelling around promoting movies because I’m always looking at different places, coming up with different sequences.”

Last week Cruise filed a $50m (€38.8m) defamation suit against magazines that claimed he had abandoned his daughter, Suri, following his divorce from actress Katie Holmes.

The star filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles against the publishers of celebrity magazines In Touch and Life & Style, Cruise’s attorney Bert Fields said.