© 2020 by Tango Media Corporation All Rights Reserved. Who is Joe Watts? Any updates on this stuntman? Vin Diesel Stunt Double Fighting For His Life After Gruesome Accident On 'Fast & Furious 9', New Sad Details About Wu Youngning, The Chinese 'Rooftopper' Who Fell 62 Stories To His Death During A Stunt, New Details About The Rumor That Matt Lauer Fathered Two Secret Children While He Was Married To Annette Roque, 8 Unromantic (But Real) Signs You've Found The Love Of Your Life, How Tall Is Barron Trump? Vin Diesel's stunt double Joe Watts is fighting for his life after falling 30 feet onto his head while filming "Fast and Furious 9.". An odd gig, but a perfect one for the aspiring stuntman in 2015. On July 22nd, Warner Brothers Hertfordshire's UK studio temporarily shut down production on one of its hotly anticipated future releases, Fast & Furious 9 after the filming of a stunt for the movie went horribly wrong. In the video, while standing on the top of a very tall lighthouse, Watts and another performer pretend to headbutt each other before they wind up leaping (backwards!) He has all his friends and family by his side to get him through this," she wrote on Facebook. In the film footage that's recently been unearthed, Joe is performing as a member of the cast at the Legoland Windsor Pirates of Skeleton Bay. Plenty of people including the cast and the crew were on set when the accident took place, including none other than Vin Diesel himself who saw the whole awful accident happened. Joe is one of the nicest men you could meet. But sometimes, things go wrong. The British stunt performer Joe Watts suffered a serious head injury on the set of the film Fast & Furious 9, at Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden, Hertfordshire, after he reportedly fell 9 metres from a balcony...Meanwhile in Russia... pic.twitter.com/qpbTa6MYXI, — Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠ (@DrAlakbarov) July 27, 2019, RELATED: Horrific New Details Released About WHY A Mother Let Her Boyfriend And His Cousin Rape And Murder Her 10-Year-Old Daughter While She Watched​. Every single day we take our lives into our hands, though for some folks that means more than others. Watts brought with him his five years teaching gymnastics at Creative Academy in Slough, Berkshire to the gig, and the school itself was responsible for sharing the link to their old teacher's stellar performance on Twitter. Watts, for the record, is insanely experienced having worked as a stunt double on  Game of Thrones, The Hitman's Bodyguard, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Spider-Man: Far From Home. "She grew up with a father who was a stuntman and has followed the same career. Stuntmen and stuntwomen quite literally leap off buildings all so a director can get that perfect take. Some might speculate about Joe's level of experience if something like this could happen to him, but experience had nothing to do with his fall. Watts' fiance Tilly Powell spoke out about the terrible events on social media: "[My] heart is shattered. The Fast And The Furious And Personal Injury Liability For Stuntmen Injuries - By Evan Guthrie July 27, 2019 Joe Watts, the stunt double for Vin Diesel for the film Fast & Furious 9 was critically injured in July of 2019 after an accident while... https://t.co/z2n4vhSXQf, — Put It Back Together (@EKGLawPI) July 27, 2019. Accident Vin Diesel’s Stunt Double Plunges 30ft In Horrific Accident On Set Of Fast & Furious 9. But there are some people for whom putting their lives on the line is part of a full day's work. There is no news about what exactly happened, but Watts reportedly fell during a stun pic.twitter.com/1F6LbsF1M0. While many people love action movies, they don't always think about all the dangerous work that goes into making them. That's something stuntman Joe Watts learned for himself on the set on the new Fast & Furious movie when a stunt that was perfectly planned went totally wrong. The footage is nearly five years old, but what it captures makes it perfectly clear that Joe has a gift when it comes to the world of stunts, and it only makes you want to send even more well-wishes his way, so that he might recover and prepare himself to once again blow minds with his tremendous antics. "He was meant to be left dangling below the balcony via the wire and then lowered slowly to the ground, but he plunged to the ground and landed on his head," a source told The Wrap. Joe Watts: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know https://t.co/tzMmQYuzIW via @heavysan, — Love Animals (@GoodDoggyDog) July 29, 2019, RELATED: New Sad Details About Wu Youngning, The Chinese 'Rooftopper' Who Fell 62 Stories To His Death During A Stunt. "Tilly is absolutely devastated but she has known the risks that were always involved," said a source from her family. #Vin_Diesel‘s stunt double, #Joe_Watts, has been seriously injured during the filming of Fast & Furious 9.The accident occurred on Monday at the #Warner_Bros_Studio in #Hertfordshire, England. Joe Watts is reportedly suffering from a serious head injury https://t.co/aQK9uehqPM. #Fast9 #JoeWatts, — lauralovesshoes (@beingLsa) July 28, 2019, RELATED: New Details About The Rumor That Matt Lauer Fathered Two Secret Children While He Was Married To Annette Roque. Rebecca Jane Stokes is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York with her cats, Batman and Margot. For Tilly, an accident like this taking place may be devastating, but it's also one she's literally spent her entire life preparing for.