EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell us that Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II sustained a minor hand injury on Thursday while filming the Netflix series Man on Fire in Mexico City which forced production to pause.
Filming is expected to resume on Monday for the eight-episode drama series which is an adaptation of A.J. Quinnell’s first two books Man on Fire and The Perfect Kill, in the author’s five-novel thriller series.
Abdul-Mateen II is scheduled to return to work before production wraps for the holidays on Dec. 20, we hear. The filming schedule has been re-adjusted in the near term to work around the star’s absence. Abdul-Mateen II is also an EP on Man on Fire.
In Man on Fire, Abdul-Mateen II plays John Creasy, a once high-functioning and skilled Special Forces mercenary known for surviving even the most desolate of situations. He is now plagued with intense PTSD. Determined to overcome
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