PETA wants to ban animals in a group after a dead horse during ‘Lord of the Rings’ tapings

The horse died on March 21 during a shooting day for the second season of the show Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power. An Amazon Studios spokesperson said the incident occurred in the morning while the animal was training before rehearsals. Hollywood Reporter. The animal trainer had not yet changed his clothes and had not yet begun filming. An autopsy shows that the animal died of cardiac arrest. The horse will not have any health problems. She was waiting with about twenty other horses.

After his death, the chamber was cleared for 30 to 45 minutes while the horse was carried away, after which the recordings resumed, he writes. Delivery time. The animal was owned by The Devil’s Horsemen, a company that specializes in making horses and stunt movies. It would be the first fatal accident in the company’s fifty-year history.

Animal rights organization PETA is calling for no more horses to be used on movie sets. According to PETA, the producers make better use of computer-generated CGI visuals and mechanical horses, “so that weak horses don’t walk to death.”

This is not the first time a horse has died during filming. Last summer, an animal died while filming an HBO series Gilded Age. Also on set The hobbit Besides some horses, other animals also died. Goats and sheep, among others, died of worm infections. Also while recording luckA series about horse racingThree horses died. After the death, the producers decided to cancel the series.