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Extra dies on set of new Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises

By Steve Wollaston on Dec 10, 11 03:35 PM

AN extra on the new Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises has died on set.

The male extra died from a heart attack during rehearsals.

It is not the first time tragedy has hit a Dark Knight film - actor Heath Ledger, who played arch villain The Joker - died in 2008 at the age of 28 after shooting the second film in the trilogy.

A spokesman for studio Warner Brothers said: "The studio can confirm that a male extra passed away while on a break during an off-set crowd rehearsal for a sequence with several hundred extras in early November.

"The production crew fully cooperated with the authorities' investigation, which established that he died of natural causes."

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