Thank you very much!!
As an aside, my own job is somewhat where the rubber meets the road, as my responsibilities involves the behind the scenes work of interacting with the public wherever we work.
A grand jury indicted “Midnight Rider” director Randall Miller, his film partner and wife, Jody Savin, and executive producer Jay Sedrish on involuntary manslaughter charges nearly five months after a camera operator was killed and six other crew members were injured during production.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-usa-georgia-state-crash-20140703,0,7407886.story
What will they get? A fine, suspended sentence?
Thank you PastTense for the update.
Possibility of 10 years in jail – maybe doing 2 years with the rest probation. I expect there will be a fine, however I don’t know how much is allowed, so I have no way to guess on the amount.
Ms. Jones’ parents have filed a civil suit that includes Allman as well as Miller, Savin & Sedrish. I will be very interested in the outcome of that.
…I discovered today that Randall Miller is a prick. A horrible human being. I hope he googles his name.
In April, Gregg Allman, the guy they were making the movie about sent this open letter to Miller which included this part:
The directors response (via his lawyer):
Inconvenient. Unbelievable. Throw the bastard in jail.
Things have become more inconvenient: Miller and Savin turn selves in to police. The article doesn’t say so, but I assume both have already posted bond and have been released from jail. Sedrish is expected to surrender this week.
I hope there’s prison time. I wouldn’t be surprised if none is forthcoming, but I hope. And I also hope that Gregg Allman is found not liable for the civil penalties - he’s not the one who made the dunderheaded call to trespass and shoot in such an irresponsible fashion.
Wow! What a prick!
There were more diplomatic ways he could have responded, but is there something ultimately wrong with finishing the movie?
Even if Miller’s indifference to the safety of his crew caused no further incidents, I would still not want him to have any opportunity to mend his reputation by getting credit for making the film, or by portraying the incident in a less negative light. I also would not want him trading on my good name now that he has proven himself unworthy of trust.
Agreed. And yeah, Gregg Allman looks like a pumpkin.
When you make Gregg Allman look like the reasonable, respectful one, you know you’re doing it wrong.
Train’s Surveillance Video of Fatal Film Crash Surfaces
https://gma.yahoo.com/video/train-39-surveillance-video-fatal-143723682.html
Ghoul.
This is out of line. A link providing new evidence is germaine to the discussion and necessary so that everyone participating meaningfully has all the available information.
There’s nothing ghoulish about the Good Morning America clip in the link (AFAIK they are not a program known for airing graphic videos), nor is there anything ghoulish about wanting to know more about what exactly happened on those tracks.
So when a production gets permission to film at a certain location, there’s no written agreement drawn up?
There’s ALWAYS a written agreement. They would have to bring a mountain of evidence showing why they thought what they claim they thought, and even then it’s difficult to imagine a jury buying it.
Ah, contracts. This can be a torturous thing. Once a location has been approved by a production (usually the production designer approves first, then the director), the negotiation begins between the property owner and the location manager. One of the first questions is if the property owner will accept the production company’s contract. If the property owner prefers to use their own agreement, that agreement gets reviewed by the production company’s attorneys and risk management department.
I would almost guarantee that CSX would demand that their agreement be used for filming.
“20/20” aired a story about this on Friday night. They had clips from the civil trial in which Gregg Allman sued to stop the picture. During examination by the plaintiff’s attorney, Miller was asked three different times about whether he got permission to film on the trestle and what steps he took to ensure the safety of the crew. Each time he answered, “It wasn’t my job.”
What a world-class douche. :mad:
ApparentlySarah Jones’s parents have dropped Gregg Allman from the lawsuit, along with the film’s executive producer and the film’s distributor. I guess Allman’s suit hasn’t been settled yet? At least I can find nothing about it since it was filed except for cochrane’s reference, above.
This is a separate lawsuit from the one filed by Gregg Allman against Randall Miller. In the one I referred to, Allman was suing Miller to keep him from resuming production on “Midnight Rider,” citing that the rights to film his story had lapsed since principal filming had not started by the date the rights had run out.
trial starting Monday.