evidence: Vin Diesel Stunt Double Fighting For His Life After Gruesome Accident On 'Fast & Furious 9' [...] 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. Vin Diesel's stunt double, a man named Joe Watts, was meant to leap off a balcony thirty feet up in the sky and be caught by a safety wire. When the wire failed to deploy, he fell, hitting the ground head first. "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. [...] This didn't happen on a closed set. 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. Diesel reportedly was spotted on the set "look[ing] ashen, totally in shock and blinking back tears. He saw what happened." Right now, Watts is in the hospital in critical condition having been put into a medically induced coma by doctors. Watts' fiance Tilly Powell spoke out about the terrible events on social media: "[My] heart is shattered. I love him so much. He has all his friends and family by his side to get him through this," she wrote on Facebook.