Warner Brothers has confirmed that an extra in the new Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises has died on set. More details after the jump!!
The unidentified male extra died from a heart attack during rehearsals.
‘The studio can confirm that a male extra passed away while on a break during an off-set crowd rehearsal for a sequence with several hundred extras in early November,’ a Warner Brothers representative told the New York Post.
‘The production crew fully cooperated with the authorities’ investigation, which established that he died of natural causes.’
The tragedy has extra impact because Heath Ledger, who played The Joker, died in 2008 at the age of 28 after filming The Dark Knight.
The movie was released after his death.
On another Warner project ‘Hangover 2’ a stuntman ended up in a coma after a head-on collision.
The Dark Knight Rises stars Christian Bale, Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway. None of the leading actors witnessed the death.
The Christopher Nolan thriller was being shot near Wall Street in New York City. Sources from the movie said the man had briefly walked away from the rest of the extras and was discovered unconscious nearby.Â
A medical crew were immediately called.
‘He was taken to the hospital straight away,’ said a source.
‘It was during a period when the film was shooting a huge sequence with several hundred extras in the Wall Street area.’
The Screen Actors Guild has also confirmed the death: ‘We have been told that the actor died of a heart attack, the actor in question was not working under a SAG contract,’ said SAG spokeswoman Pamela Greenwalt.
