The creator behind 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' has been penalized £1.6 million (about R27.95m) for hurting Harrison Ford.
The 74-year-old actor was severely injured filming for his role as Han Solo in the Sci-Fi movie at Pinewood Studios in London, England when a door on the Millennium Falcon spacecraft fell and broke his leg.
Foodles Production Inc. was fined for bettering the safety regulations, after the actor was struck by a hydraulic door that ruptured the tibia and fibula in his left leg. It also nailed him to the floor by his pelvis and deeply cut his hand.
Ford stepped beneath the door during a dress recital, assuming it was inactive since it wasn't used in foregoing of the scene. This time, however, a lookout signaled Ford's spot to an engineer who closed the door.
Marshall disputed that the door posed a "risk of death", according to BBC News. "It could have killed someone's life. The fact that it didn't was because an emergency stop was activated," he said. A spokesman said that the power of the door's drive system was comparable to "the weight of a small car" and that this was "a foreseeable incident."
Meanwhile, Harrison previously opened up about the injury. He said at the time: "Now we had lots of money and technology and so they built a f***ing great hydraulic door which closed at light speed and somebody said, 'Ooh I wonder what this is?'
"And the door came down and hit me on my left hip because I was turned to my right. And then it flung my left leg up and it dislocated my ankle and as it drove me down to the floor, my legs slapped on the ramp up to the Millennium Falcon and broke both bones in my left leg."
