Warner Bros has been slapped with a lawsuit over an alleged stunt going bad on the Bangkok, Thailand set which left a man with significant brain injuries, reports
The Hollywood Reporter.
Scott McLean alleges that he was acting as Ed Helms' stunt double for a sequence shot in
The Hangover: Part II on December 17th last year where automobiles were traveling at high speeds and McLean was a passenger in one of those cars.
A production source had told The Hollywood Reporter in December that McLean was in a moving truck and leaning out the window when at that point, a car traveling towards it, skidded and hit.
The complaint which was filed on Tuesday in California federal court said that the scene required "precision and timing," but that after the shooting started, co-defendant Russell Solberg (stunt coordinator), directed the timing sequence to change.
It's alleged that "Solberg commanded to the driver of the automobile in which plaintiff Scott McLean was a passenger, that the speed of his vehicle be increased significantly to a speed unsafe for the stunt, thus resulting in a major collision."
Agreed. What the hell is a NON-stunt man doing in a car in the first place?