The Final Chapter, distributed by Sony's Screen Gems unit and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson with a budget of $63 million, is the sixth film in the Resident Evil movie series, a video-game-based action film franchise that has grossed more than $1.2 billion over 16 years. Jackson's accident wasn't the only serious mishap the franchise has seen. Two months after Jackson wound up in the hospital, another South African crew member named Ricardo Cornelius died from injuries suffered on set when a Humvee slid off a rotating platform, pinning him against a wall and crushing his lungs. And in an incident that hasn't been disclosed before, another crewmember was injured by a plastic boulder and tore a ligament, spending six weeks on crutches and never returning to work. In 2011, on the Toronto set of Resident Evil: Retribution, 16 background actors dressed as zombies fell from a collapsing high-wheeled platform and 12 were taken to the hospital with leg, back and arm wounds.

Injuries, even serious ones, have always been part of stunt work. Nevertheless, with the hospitalization of at least 15 people, the Resident Evil franchise stands out as particularly treacherous. "That's an extremely high rate of injury for one movie or franchise," says a veteran stunt performer who has worked on dozens of productions around the world over a 30-year career. "Typically there are no injuries on set, and that's what we strive for."

Was he shooting it as a documentary? How do you fuck up that badly in one film with an imdb rating of 5.5?