The set of Snow White devastated by a fire.
It happens in the United Kingdom, at Pinewood Studios, one of the most important soundstages in the world. “Filming was not in progress,” a Disney source told Variety, noting that only the set-ups were in progress.
“The flames are said to have started from Richard Attenborough’s box. A set consisting of a lot of wood and trees was being built there – an anonymous source told The Sun – It is said that one piece caught fire, then blazed on the rest of the set ».
Fortunately, there were no victims among the crew: “they were shaken, but they were evacuated, without injuries.” “I didn’t see how it started, but they told me that a tree caught fire – said another witness – When I got there, the flames were huge, they reached the ceiling. Pieces of sets began to fall into the flames and a thatched cottage caught fire “
Photographs taken outside showed smoke floating outside the building.
Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service confirmed the incident. No actor was on the set, starting with the lead, Rachel Zegler, who will soon be in New York for the National Board of Review Awards, where she was nominated for Best Actress.
In addition to Zegler, in the cast of Disney’s live-action, recently the subject of several controversies by the actor suffering from achondroplasia, Peter Dinklage, who criticized the choice of the major to “continue working on a back story about seven dwarfs living in a cave, ”Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot, who will play the Evil Queen.
This isn’t the first time Pinewood Studios has burned down. There were two other fires, one in 1984 during the filming of Ridley Scott’s Legend and the second in 2006, with Casino Royale, the first film in the film saga starring Daniel Craig as James Bond.