New details have emerged about the USC film production where a student died in an off-road vehicle crash.
29, was in the back of an off-road vehicle traversing Imperial County’s sand dunes with three other filmmakers, working on a movie for the University of Southern California’s prestigious School of Cinematic Arts.
A week later, the film schools are still trying to figure out what happened. The tragedy comes six months after the shocking death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the western movie “Rust,” which renewed Stephen Galloway, dean of Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University, confirmed that the school had supported the student with grants and that he had already largely completed his coursework. It will award him his master of fine arts degree posthumously, he said.
Lawyers representing Su and Li said in a joint statement that the students were deeply saddened by the accident and were cooperating with the investigation. “We think, before anybody makes any statements, that they should let the investigation play out,” the representatives said. Reached by phone, the dean of the university’s School of Cinematic Arts, Elizabeth Daley, noted that there were “legal issues here” and declined to comment.A subsequent statement from the university suggested the students had gone rogue in using an off-road vehicle and shooting in the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, a remote expanse of desert three hours and more than 230 miles from the USC campus.
“They drive just like a car,” said Jason Davis, who owns an Arizona company that rents vehicles like the four-seater “side by side” that the crew was using. He and others said most rollovers occur when the driver makes a sharp turn. Before the shoot, the USC film production was notably disorganized, Jian said. The script changed repeatedly and the filmmakers seemed strapped for time to prepare but unwilling to cancel the shoot, he said.
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