Pierce Brosnan could go to prison for breaking Yellowstone National Park rules. The 70-year-old Irish actor will have to appear before the Yellowstone Justice Center for allegedly entering protected thermal areas.
According to the criminal file filed Tuesday in the United States District Court in Wyoming, to which CNN had access, The James Bond actor was charged with “traveling on foot in all thermal areas and in Yellowstone Canyon.” limited to trails and violation of closures and use limits.”
The charges Brosnan faces are dated November 1 and are classified as a misdemeanor. The actor is expected to appear before the Yellowstone Justice Center on January 23.
After the violations, The actor has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. deadline He tried, without success, to contact Brosnan’s representative to obtain some comment from the interpreter, who has also not commented on the judicial summons on social networks.
Filming in Yellowstone
Weeks before the incident, in October, Pierce Brosnan was with Samuel L. Jackson filming Unholy Trinity, a film that will be released in 2024 and which has several shots within Yellowstone National Park.
In accordance with The Hollywood ReporterThe film, a western set in the 1870s in Montana, obtained an interim agreement with the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG-AFTRA), since filming on the film began before the strike ended.
The script for Unholy Trinity was written by Lee Zachariah, while the producers of the project were Carter Boehm, Colin Floom, Michele Gray, Kellie Brooks, Jeanne Allgood and Richard Gray, who is also the director of the film.
On November 8, the Screen Actors Guild of the United States announced that it had reached an agreement valued at more than $1 billion in new salaries and benefit plans with the major Hollywood studios and streaming platforms, represented by the Alliance. of Film and Television Producers (AMPTP).
Finally, at midnight on Thursday, the strike, which lasted 118 days, ended. It has been the longest pause that the actors guild has had in history.
About Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone is considered the world’s first national park and is famous for its unique features hydrothermal and geological.
On the national park website, Visitors are advised to follow a series of rules around the thermal areas such as, for example, not traveling through them after dark. It is also not permitted to swim, submerge or bathe in waters that are entirely of thermal origin.
Despite warnings and recommendations, many tourists often break the rules and some have deadly consequences. At least 22 people have died from burns suffered in the local hot springs.
Water temperatures at the Mammoth Terraces hot springs routinely reach 71°C.
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