Filming for Marvel and Joss Whedon's ultimate superhero team-up The Avengers is well underway, reportedly easing midway through production. But of course, with a highly-anticipated action film such is this, it's no surprise a stunt or two will go wrong. And now TMZ have learned that stuntman Jeremy Fitzgerald has received a terrible head injury, while filming a scene with Hawkeye. Along with a graphic images, which you can view by clicking, check out the report below.
Stuntman Jeremy Fitzgerald tells TMZ, his job was simple -- get hit with an arrow and fall 30 feet off a building ... but he caught his foot on the way down, and slammed his head into the brick ... leaving behind a freshly peeled slab of scalp. But it could have been a LOT worse -- according to Jeremy, he narrowly missed a razor sharp rain gutter during the accident. And if all that wasn't badass enough -- Jeremy tells us, he went right back to work after the fall ... no hospital, no stitches ... just a bandage. UPDATE: A Marvel spokesperson tells TMZ, "[Jeremy] was fine. He slid briefly along the side of the building. He got right back up and did several more takes."
Marvel's The Avengers picks up when an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security. And Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. With director Joss Whedon at it's helm, and an ensemble cast including Chris Evans
(Steve Rogers), Robert Downey Jr.
(Tony Stark), Chris Hemsworth
(Thor Odinson), Jeremy Renner
(Clint Barton), Mark Ruffalo
(Bruce Banner), Scarlett Johansson
(Natasha Romanoff), Clark Gregg
(Agt. Phil Coulson), Cobie Smulders
(Maria Hill), Samuel L. Jackson
(Nick Fury), with Tom Hiddleston
(Loki), and Stellan Skarsgard
(Professor Erik Selvig), the film releases worldwide May 4, 2012!