The production set of “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter” will have a very harrowing, terrible, and memorable filming experience among the movies in the popular franchise as a crew member died on the set after being crushed as a result of an accident.
Ricardo Cornelius, 34, was badly injured and died on December 3 when a US Army issue Hummer fell on top of him on the film’s set in Cape Town in South Africa.
Apparently, the Hummer was standing on a small platform, which tilted when it was being manually rotated, causing the vehicle to fall, landing on Cornelius.
Cornelius was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support, according to his wife of just one year, Shafiefa.
Plagued by mishaps
Shafiefa narrated that at the hospital, doctors said they had to take him into the theater as soon as he arrived. The wife said that his husband’s heart stopped and they were all fighting for his life and the doctors were able to revive him again. She added that the doctors told her that her husband’s lungs were completely flat and he was bleeding a lot.
The wife recounted that her husband was unconscious and he was already on life support. That’s when she held his hand and told him not to leave them because they still need him and that he is a strong man.
Shafiefa added that she thinks her husband did not know what was going on around him. She said that they were with Ricardo when he died shortly thereafter.
She pointed out that the company her husband was working for is called All Access Crew and compensated her financially for her loss. But the company has since stopped communicating with her.
The death in the set is actually the second mishap in less than six weeks as stuntwoman Olivia Jackson reportedly had her arm amputated after suffering horrifying injuries when a stunt on the movie went wrong late in October, notes Yahoo! News.
Despite the two fatal accidents on the set, filming for “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter” still proceeded according to schedule and the production was able to finish it before the turn of the new year.
As for stuntwoman Olivia Jackson, she revealed that she is to have her arm amputated after she ran into a moving camera equipment while performing motorbike stunt for the movie in October last year.
A flashback scene?
Meanwhile, actress Milla Jovovich took to Instagram in mid-November to post a photo showing a quick behind-the-scenes look into the movie.
Milla, who plays the role of Alice in the franchise, showed an old version of her character leaving fans to speculate on her wrinkled face and gray hair, notes the Latinos Post.
But reports have it that the old Alice look is not included at the end of “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter” although the make-up on her took more than four hours to make.
Some critics, however, think that the recent photo shared by Milla Jovovich on her Instagram account is an allusion of an old Alice story in the plot. In fact, viewers will actually be seeing a series of flashbacks in the upcoming film.
When the third film of the “Resident Evil” movie franchise, titled “Resident Evil: Extinction” was shown in global theaters in 2007, fans and viewers thought that it was going to be the last in the series.
Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how fans view it, the franchise still spewed two more sequels – “Resident Evil: Afterlife” in 2010 and “Resident Evil: Retribution” in 2012.
“Resident Evil: Afterlife” left a huge cliffhanger in its ending so viewers knew right away that there would be a fifth “Resident Evil” movie. True enough, after two years, it came out on theaters.
The end of “Resident Evil: Retribution” has pretty much put everything to a wrap so fans rightfully thought that it was to be the franchise’s last.
It turned out however that Director Paul WS Anderson and his wife Milla Jovovich, the star of the franchise as Alice, have other things in mind and wanted to have one final movie to finally put the series into a wrap for good.