A crew member on the Mötley Crüe biopic "The Dirt" has filed a lawsuit against streaming service Netflix after he was shocked by overhead electrical lines while working on the film's New Orleans set in March 2018.
The suit was filed in March on behalf of New Orleans resident Louis Divincenti in Orleans Parish Civil District Court but has since been moved to federal court. It seeks $1.8 million in damages to cover medical bills resulting from the incident, as well as unspecified amounts for pain and suffering, permanent disability, scarring and disfigurement, lost wages, and future life needs and medical expenses.
Netflix, which is among more than two dozen defendants named in the suit, has yet to file a response in the case. Other defendants include Mötley Crüe band members Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Mick Mars and Nicki Sixx, all credited as co-producers on the film, and director Jeff Tremaine.
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Divincenti’s filing, however, provides previously unreported details on the incident, which occurred March 10, 2018, at The Munch Factory on Sophie B. Wright Place, the façade of which was altered to resemble the West Hollywood music club Whisky A-Go-Go for the film’s purposes.
That included the erecting of a green screen over part of the building -- and near live powerlines -- so the building's appearance could be further altered in post-production.
Divincenti, a rigging grip, was part of a three-person crew tasked with removing the green screen as well as 10- to 20-foot metal pipes used to secure it to the side of the building, according the court filing.
As Divincenti was removing and handing one of the pipes to a crew member on the ground, it says, electricity arced from one of the power lines. "This electrical arc entered (Divincenti's) body and blew out through the bottom of his right foot," the filing says. "Crew members rushed to the roof to put out the fire on (his) body."
Divincenti, who spent approximately seven weeks in the intensive care unit at University Medical Center, received second- and third-degree burns to 50% of his body, requiring “numerous surgeries and skin grafts,” including a partial amputation of his right foot, the filing says.
The suit goes on to accuse Netflix and other companies and individuals that produced the film of neglecting to assess properly the hazardous nature of the set or to warn Divincenti and other crew members of the potential danger.
“The Dirt” is based on Mötley Crüe’s 2001 autobiography “The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band,” which charts its rise to rock superstardom and notoriety in the late 1980s. It was released online March 22 on Netflix.
Mike Scott covers movies and TV for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. He can be reached via email at mscott@nola.com or on Twitter at @moviegoermike.
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