In September of 2015, a stunt went horribly wrong during the filming of the sixth and final installment of the Resident Evil franchise, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. During the filming of the movie, which was written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and released in 2016, stuntwoman Olivia Jackson–the stunt double for actress Milla Jovovich, who represents the character Alice in the franchise–nearly died.

Before becoming a stunt doubled in the Resident Evil franchise, Jackson was a stunt double for Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road and also worked on Star Wars and Marvel movies. Following the 2015 collision, her occupation as a stunt woman came to an abrupt stall. The accident happened while Jackson, a former South African model, was scooting on a motorcycle on an evacuate road west of Pretoria. She crashed into a crane-mounted camera and suffered critical gashes. Her facial bones were crushed, and she also suffered a severed artery in her cervix, several broken ribs, a crushed scapula, a crack clavicle, and charge digits. Additionally, five guts were torn from her spinal cord. Jackson had to have her limb amputated after being set up in a medically generated lethargy for 17 daytimes, and likewise had a thumb amputated.

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Jackson has used to say that on the day of the accident, she was originally supposed to film a fight scene, but there was a last-minute change. She was instead asked to perform a complex motorcycle incident in poverty-stricken weather conditions. The happen has proven to be contentious, and a four-year legal combat followed. Less than a year after the accident, Jackson litigated the stunt coordinator and his firm, the film move, the upturn adventurer, and the stunt vehicle busines for failure. In 2017, she sued the product company Davis Films/ Impact Pictures.

In her filings, Jackson stated that the catastrophic accident happened because the production team appreciated monetary concerns over the safety of the cast and crew. “The scene involved a vehicle fitted with a mechanical crane attached to a camera driving toward[ Jackson ], as she sped on her motorcycle instantly at the camera, ” the suit says. “The camera was supposed to elevate safely above[ Jackson] principal before she contacted it. But the haphazardly contrived stunt went terribly wrong.” The defendants repudiated Jackson’s charges. Davis Films stated that Jackson drove too fast, and was aware of the risks at hand. Jackson also alleged the producers of misleading her into thinking the insurance company would pay for her traumata. Ultimately, the Supreme court of South africans dismissed Jackson’s asserts, moving the bag to the Road Accident Fund of South africans, which covers all users of the country’s streets against traumata sustained in machine vehicle accidents.

In April of 2020, Jackson triumphed a court ruling in South Africa’s Supreme court, which received Roland Hilton Melville – the move of private vehicles on which the camera was organized – negligent. The find determined that South Africa’s Road Accident Fund was liable for impairs. Of route, Jackson’s victory was limited. As she told the L.A. Times: “I’ve had so much taken away from me. I can’t ever act again, I don’t have the job that I was unusually successful in and that I desired so much.”

Following Jackson’s career-ending accident in September of 2015, it was believed that more intensive safety measures would be implemented on the placeds of the Resident Evil movies. Months later, in early December 2015, crew representative Ricardo Cornelius was humbled to fatality by one of the film’s props–a U.S. Army-issue Hummer–while on placed. Hollywood suffered even more stunt performer coincidences following the ones that occurred on Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. In 2017, stuntwoman Joi “SJ Harris”–double for actress Zazie Beetz–was killed on the determined of Deadpool 2 when she lost control of her motorcycle and crashed into Shaw Tower in Vancouver. In 2019, stuntman Joe Watts ended up in intense care following industrial accidents during the filming of Fast& Furious 9 that left him with a serious president injury. While any on-set injury is tragic, the severity of Jackson’s accident and other stunt performers’ harms proves the movie industry needs to examine safety regulations and do more to protect people who are working as stunt performers in the future.

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