An actor was killed Monday while filming a scene featuring several guns for an Australian band's music video, police said.
The man died at a bar in the Queensland city of Brisbane while filming the video by hip hop group Bliss n Eso. Members of the band were not on the set at the time, the group's management said in a statement.
During the scene, several actors fired their guns and the actor somehow received wounds to his chest, Queensland Police Detective Inspector Tom Armitt said. No one else was injured.
It was not immediately clear whether the guns were loaded with live ammunition or blanks, Armitt said. Blank cartridges can still cause injuries if fired at close range.
"I can't tell you whether they are live or real firearms," Armitt told reporters. "I can't tell you the type of ammunition that were being used. That will be a subject of the investigation."
Police did not release the actor's name.
Wasn't there a CSI episode about something similar? Or some other detective show (I think it was a Canadian police procedural, but I can't for the life of me remember the title of the show, "Listener" something). It was about a horror film with a cult following, and they were doing a reboot. Someone changed the screenplay last-minute and had the main female character shoot the serial killer (wielding a butcher knife, by the way). The same person who suggested the script changes apparently also switched the blanks with real ammo (or not, I forget the details). [SPOILER ALERT.] First they suspected it was for PR, but then it was the director being pretentious and precious about his "art", or something...
ReplyDeleteI just hope this wasn't a case of art imitating life and that show didn't give anyone any ideas...