The Sun reports that a film extra who worked on Warner Bros. Discovery's ill-fated Batgirl movie is now suing the studio after nearly being killed by a speeding motorbike.
Cristina Stanovic has gone so far as to say it would have been "easier" if she'd died in the wake of multiple operations which have left her with visible scars and life-altering injuries (you can see photos by heading over to the site). As well as cutting her head, the extra broke her thigh, shin, hip, pelvis, and thumb.
Stanovic was playing the role of a Gotham City bystander while filming was taking place in Glasgow in late 2021/early 2022 when a bike carrying a camera ploughed into her. After being rushed to hospital, the 35-year-old underwent emergency surgery.
"To hear the anaesthesiologist say 'we had our fingers crossed for you' really sends a chill down your spine," she tells the tabloid. "The surgeon told me it was one of the worst cases he has seen in his eight years at the hospital."
"They had a motorcycle with cameras on top of it that was filming. I started screaming to get the attention of the paramedics as I remembered seeing an ambulance on site in the previous days," Stanovic explained. "I lay there for almost an hour while they checked me and stabilised me. Unfortunately, I didn’t lose my consciousness. The memory will forever traumatise me."
Detailing her injuries, she added, "My femur, my tibia plateau, my pubic bone, a lot of non-displaced fractures in the pelvis, a broken thumb, and laceration to the head. They did the femur surgery after approximately 10 hours. It lasted more than five hours, I had five blood transfusions and I almost died."
Describing her recovery as "horrendous," it sounds like Stanovic still faces her fair share of struggles with the fallout and is now taking legal action against Warner Bros. We'd imagine she'll eventually receive a lot of money from the studio, though it could prove to be a lengthy legal battle depending on the circumstances of this accident.
Batgirl starred Leslie Grace and Brendan Fraser and was supposed to be released on the Max streaming service (then called HBO Max) before newly appointed Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav decided to scrap what he deemed to be an "unreleasable" movie.
A tax write-off, Batgirl is almost certainly never going to see the light of day despite the hopes of filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah.