Fast & Furious producers fined £800,000 after stuntman suffers brain damage

Fast & Furious producers fined £800,000 after stuntman suffers brain damage
Joe Watts was injured on the set of Fast & Furious 9 (Tilly Powell/PA)

The makers of a Fast & Furious film have been fined £800,000 after a stuntman suffered brain damage during a staged fight scene.

Joe Watts was also left with a broken skull after he fell 25 feet headfirst on to the concrete ground at Warner Brothers’ studios in Leavesden, Hertfordshire, on July 22 2019.

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