LOS ANGELES ¨C One person died and two were injured on Thursday when a ceiling collapsed on the set in Taiwan of Martin Scorsese¡¯s upcoming film ¡°Silence,¡± a spokeswoman for the production said.
The three were working as contractors to reinforce a building on the CMPC Studios lot that had been deemed unsafe for production when the accident happened, spokeswoman Leslee Dart said in a statement.
¡°Everyone is in shock and sorrow and expresses their deepest concern and sympathy to the families of the individual who died and those who were injured,¡± the statement added. It did not detail the severity of the injuries.
¡°Silence,¡± which is still in preproduction, is the Oscar-winning director¡¯s first theatrical film since his 2013 tale of greed and excess, ¡°The Wolf of Wall Street.¡±
Adapted from Japanese author Shusaku Endo¡¯s novel of the same name, ¡°Silence¡± tells the story of 17th century Portuguese Jesuit missionaries and their followers who face violence and persecution in Japan.
The movie will star Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver.
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