10. Resident Evil In 2019 Olivia Jackson not only lost
her arm following a horrific motorcycle accident during the filming of Resident Evil: The Final
Chapter. She also spent 17 days in a coma! The 38-year-old stuntwomen collided with a camera on
a mechanical crane that was being steered directly at her as she was riding the bike towards it. What
should have been a perfectly standard action film sequence turned into complete horror when
she smashed into the camera and flipped off her bike. Olivia has since sued the film’s producers,
saying she was misled over her insurance coverage. She only ended up getting paid $33,000 for the
loss of her arm - which is definitely not enough. It's not like being a stunt person doesn't come
with its dangers. But those dangers should obviously have a bigger payout than $33,000.
These people are paid to protect the actors, who make significantly more money than them.
All Olivia wants is compensation for what happened while she was trying to do her job.
Plus, the accident wasn't even her fault. In her lawsuit, she claimed the stunt was a disaster
because of changes made at the last minute. The camera was lifted later on the final run,
and she wasn't informed about it. This meant she wasn't ready for where the camera was going to be,
and she smashed it with her forearm at 71 mph (114 kph). She obliterated the bone in her arm
and tore the flesh off her cheek, leaving her teeth exposed like a zombie from The Walking Dead.
Olivia also suffered punctured lungs, many broken bones, a severed neck artery, and brain swelling.
She is extremely lucky to be alive. Olivia is still looking at ten additional surgeries over
the next few years. All she wants is some money to help pay for her medical bills,
as well as recognition for what happened. 9. Deadpool Motorcycle Crash
Stuntwoman Joi Harris died in a tragic motorcycle accident during the filming of Deadpool
2 in Vancouver. This happened in August of 2017. The producers of the movie were slapped with a
penalty of almost $300,000. They failed to provide a safe workplace for the stuntwomen,
and this failure left her dead. What's truly tragic is that Joi
was performing her first movie stunt ever. She had been training, she was ready, and she got on that
motorcycle thinking it would lead to a long career as a stunt woman. She was also the first African
American woman to be licensed to compete in races with the American Motorcyclist Association. But
Instead of a long career, she was ejected from the bike and crashed through a glass window and died.
8. Vin Diesel’s Stunt Double Disaster During the 2019 filming of Fast and Furious 9,
Vin Diesel’s stunt double fell 30 feet (9 m) and suffered a serious head injury. His name
is Joe Watts, a British national who's worked on plenty of the biggest movies and TV shows.
His list includes movies like Spider-Man, Kingsman, and shows like Game of Thrones. But
while filming Fast and Furious at Warner Brothers studio, one stunt nearly cost him his life.
The stunt should have been simple. Joe was supposed to be thrown over the shoulder of
another performer off the edge of a balcony. The balcony was 25 feet (7.6 m) high. He was
supposed to be suspended in midair by a wire. Something went wrong, the wire didn't catch him,
and he hit the concrete floor. He had to be rushed by an air ambulance to the Royal London
Hospital, where doctors said he had a fractured skull. They had to put him
into a medically induced coma for five days. The only good news here is that Joe recovered.
He's still alive today, although he did need to relearn a lot of his basic skills. He had to
learn how to talk again. And then to make things worse, his rehabilitation was interrupted by the
COVID-19 pandemic. He was no longer able to see his physiotherapist, his occupational therapist,
or his neuropsychologist. Joe is still on the road to recovery and is making progress day by day.
He doesn't have any memory of what happened on the set, and he hasn't been
able to work since the accident. 7. Jackass Forever’s Lawsuit
While filming the new Jackass Forever movie, somebody got hurt. Somebody always gets hurt
when filming these things, but this time it was somebody who wasn't actually part of the movie.
The victim was struck in the head with something and nearly died when a jet ski
stunt went terribly wrong. He's now suing Steve-O and Chris Pontius for $12 million in damages.
It all started when the Jackass crew was in Puerto Rico in 2018 to film. They approached a man named
Michael Vicens-Segura and asked if they could use his jet skis for their stunt. It was a tug-of-war
deal with a bungee cord tied to both jet skis. Stuntmen on the jet skis were to hit the gas and
drive away from each other as fast as they could to see what happened. But it never got that far.
Because the waters were really choppy, the crew asked Michael if he could hold one of the jet skis
steady as they started. But when the stuntmen hit the gas, the bungee cord snapped immediately. It
hit Michael in the head at high speed, and Michael had to be air-lifted to the nearest hospital.
This was no mere concussion. Michael was in serious trouble. He had a bleeding brain,
a fractured skull, and needed to be put into a medically induced coma. He is now unable
to work because he suffers chronic pain, he's traumatized, and he's covered in scars. He wants
six figures from the Jackass crew to help him to deal with his injuries for the rest of his life.
6. The America’s Got Talent Rehearsal Nightmare Not everyone who signed up for America’s Got
Talent had any actual talent. But professional daredevil Jonathan Goodwin did. The only issue
was that when he was rehearsing his big stunt for America’s Got Talent: Extreme, he wound up
falling 40 feet (12 m) onto hard concrete after getting crushed between two cars and set on fire.
Jonathan almost died in Atlanta due to the extreme injuries he suffered preparing to go on TV
and show America his talent. He considered himself to be something of an escape artist,
a modern-day Houdini. His stunt involved him being suspended by a wire in midair with one car on
either side suspended from cranes. The cars were also held by wires, and when they were released,
they would meet in the middle like a pendulum, right where Jonathan was hanging. He was supposed
to free himself from his bonds before this happened and then fall 40 feet onto an airbag.
Sadly, it all went very terribly wrong. Jonathan miscalculated his timing and didn't free himself
soon enough. He was crushed when the two hanging cars crashed into him. When they collided,
they lit on fire and burned his face! And as if that wasn't bad enough, he fell 40 feet and missed
the airbag, landing on the concrete on his head. He did survive, but it was a very close call.
Plus, he didn't get to compete in the show and potentially win the big cash prize.
Do you think there should have been some kind of consolation prize for
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before the end of the video! :) 5. Expendable on Expendables 2
Kun Liu was killed by an explosion during the filming of The Expendables 2,
featuring the action heroes Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The man was just 26 years
old when he was performing on an inflatable boat in Bulgaria. According to the Bulgarian
authorities, the explosion seriously injured an unnamed stuntman while killing Kun Liu.
But here's the deal, we don't really know what happened. The explosion was in 2011, and the death
never really made the news in a big way. There were a few reports about it, and then it vanished.
We were given the dead man’s name, but no critical details about what actually happened. It almost
seems as though it was covered up to protect what went on to be a huge success at the box office.
In 2012, the parents of the stuntman sued the filmmakers, but we don't know how that
turned out either. They filed a case of wrongful death against Millennium Films, but we have no
idea if they settled out of court or what. All we know is that an explosion went very wrong,
one stuntman lost his life, another was seriously injured, and the Expendables 2 went on to make
a huge amount of money. Most people never even knew what happened during the filming.
4. Lethal Weapon Civil Casualty During the filming of the Lethal
Weapon TV series in 2019, a civilian suffered a traumatic brain injury. It happened on August 22,
2018. Lethal Weapon was filming in California when Sami Habbas had his vehicle shredded by a zipline
that had been set up along a street in Long Beach. The zipline was for the test run of a stunt
in which the stunt person would glide across the street. The test involved sending a sandbag of 300
pounds (136 kg) down the zipline. Everything went by OK, with traffic blocked while the stunt test
was underway. When the stunt was over, traffic was allowed to resume. But the cable was still
there. Just as Sami was driving near it, the cable snapped and hit his car, injuring his wife, Sandi.
The vehicle was only going about 20 miles an hour (32 kph). When the cable snapped and hit the car,
it struck with so much force that the vehicle was lifted in the air and the front end was shredded.
It even ripped apart a light pole in the process. After the accident, Sami and Sandi filed the suit
against WarnerMedia and Warner Bros, seeking money for emotional damage and for the alleged
traumatic brain injury. The plaintiffs went a little far though with the emotional damage.
They've alleged that since the accident, both have required constant psychological care.
They have severe emotional distress and need to be looked after by a psychiatrist
at all times of the day. 3. Injury on the Maze Runner Set
The star of the Maze Runner trilogy, Dylan O'Brien, was so seriously injured while filming
the 2020 third installment of the franchise that the production halted for nearly a year.
He was shooting a scene involving a stunt car when something went horribly wrong and it ran him over.
He ended up beneath the vehicle, crushed and almost killed. He had to be rushed to the
hospital, suffering from a concussion, a facial fracture, and brain trauma. According to what
the actor told the media, he literally broke the majority of the right side of his face.
Thankfully, Dylan did make a full recovery. The one thing that's changed, according to him,
is that when he puts on a rig to do a stunt, he's extremely thorough in checking it. He’s
also admitted that if there’s a stunt and he needs to do some action, he becomes irritable
and a little anxious. But after getting run over by a car on set, you can't really blame the guy.
2. Transformers 3 Tragedy Aspiring actress Gabriela Cedillo nearly died in
2012 during the filming of Transformers 3. She was working as an extra on set and was driving one of
the cars during a chase scene. The action sequence was being filmed on Cline Avenue in Chicago,
with Gabriela in one car and the vehicle in front being pulled by a cable.
The cable snapped and Gabriela accidentally drove straight into it. The other vehicle smashed
through her windshield and hit her directly in the head, almost crushing it like an egg.
She's lucky to be alive today, especially considering she was driving 50 mph (80 kph)
when the accident happened. But her injuries will be with her for the rest of her life.
She lost one third of her head and a huge part of the right side of her brain. She was once an
energetic woman eager to star in movies. Now she requires 24-hour care and will need it
for the rest of her life. She'll definitely be taken care of by her friends and family,
but she’ll never drive another vehicle again. Her family was awarded $18.5 million in a
settlement, but they’d trade it in a heartbeat to get Gabriela back to the way she used to be.
1. The Twilight Zone of Despair What happened on the final day of
filming for the 1983 feature length adaptation of The Twilight Zone has gone down in history
as the worst stunt disaster ever. While shooting the final scene on the final day,
actor Vic Morrow was decapitated and two child actors were killed by a falling helicopter.
This was by far the most gruesome on-set disaster. Vic Morrow is the only actor who’s literally
lost his head while trying to film a movie. The final scene was a big one. Vic’s character
was supposed to redeem himself by attempting to rescue a pair of Vietnamese children from a US air
raid. The man behind the controls of the helicopter was a real Vietnam veteran named
Dorcey Wingo. He was new to the movie business and knew more about actual bombs than special effects.
When the cameras started rolling, pyrotechnic fireballs swarmed around the helicopter,
and Dorcey didn't seem to know how to react. He forced the vehicle down into a river where
the actors were, in front of about 100 people. 6-year-old Renee Chen was crushed as Vic Morrow
dropped her from his arms. The helicopter rolled, its main blade sliced Vic’s head off, and pretty
much cleaved 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le in half. Suffice to say, this was the end of shooting.
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