One Man Dead, Two Others Injured after Accident on the Set of Martin Scorsese’s New Film Silence
One Man Dead, Two Others Injured after Accident on the Set of Martin Scorsese’s New Film Silence – A tragedy has stuck the set of Martin Scorsese’s latest film.
One Taiwanese worker died and two others were injured Thursday when a scaffolding structure collapsed on the Taipei set of Silence, the 72-year-old director’s upcoming movie starring Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver.
Spokesperson Leslee Dart said, “Today there was an unfortunate accident at CMPC Studios in Taiwan, where the Martin Scorsese film, Silence, is in pre-production. An existing structure on the CMPC backlot had been deemed unsafe by the production, and accordingly a 3rd-party contractor was hired to reinforce and make it safe prior to any production-related work commencing in this building. Sadly, during this process, the ceiling collapsed, resulting in the death of one of the contractor’s employees and injuries to two others.”
