A cellphone video of the accident on the set of the Eddie Murphy movie “The Pickup” reveals that an SUV and truck may be seen flipping over after veering off highway.
The New York Instances obtained the footage and shared it Wednesday after information broke that the accident on the set of the Amazon MGM Studios movie hospitalized two individuals and injured a number of others. The New York Instances now says at the very least half a dozen individuals who have been inside the 2 vehicles have been taken to the hospital. One stays hospitalized Wednesday after sustaining a again harm.
Within the video (through NYT), you possibly can see an armored truck pulling up alongside an SUV after which swerving into it, main the vehicles to drive off the highway and into grass. However the armored truck then rolls on prime of the SUV, with each automobiles totally flipping earlier than touchdown upright. The video concludes with an individual’s physique hanging limply out of the armored truck door.
Whereas it’s unclear the precise reason for the accident, be it human error or car malfunction, a supply near the manufacturing instructed IndieWire that the truck within the video was meant to collide with the SUV as a part of the stunt sequence within the movie. The SUV was purported to then veer behind the armored truck, however the sequence didn’t go as deliberate.
OSHA, the Occupational Security and Well being Administration, has opened an investigation into the accident, which occurred April 20 outdoors Atlanta.
“On April 20, an accident occurred on the set of ‘The Pickup’ throughout a rehearsed second unit motion sequence. Sadly, the sequence didn’t go as deliberate and several other members of the crew have been injured in consequence,” a spokesperson for Amazon MGM Studios stated in a press release Tuesday. “We’re nonetheless within the technique of gathering details on what occurred and why, however at first our ideas are with those that are recovering. The well-being of your complete crew and solid is our first precedence, and we’ll proceed to insist on the highest business requirements of security whereas filming. All security precautions have been reviewed previous to and monitored through the shoot.”
Amazon MGM Studios had no further remark right now.
The crash was described to the AP yesterday as a “freak accident” with all security procedures being adopted, and that every one injured crew members have been anticipated to make a full restoration.
The celebrities of “The Pickup,” together with Eddie Murphy, Keke Palmer, and Pete Davidson, weren’t on set on the time of the accident. The sequence was being filmed by the second unit, which shoots parts of the movie not involving principal actors.
Tim Story is directing “The Pickup,” which additionally stars Andrew Cube Clay, Eva Longoria, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Jack Kesy, and Marshawn Lynch. Manufacturing just isn’t anticipated to be delayed on account of the accident.
Watch the video through The New York Instances.