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The film studio said it had conducted an investigation after
actor Dylan O'Brien, 24, made offhand comments in an interview
that he had fallen ill during filming of "The Scorch Trials,"
the second film in the "Maze Runner" franchise.
He implied that a Native American curse had taken revenge on
cast members who took objects from the grounds of the historical
filming location.
"Twentieth Century Fox and the entire Scorch Trials production
have deep respect for the local Native American culture and
environment and are sorry that any actions or statements by
people involved in the production led to any suggestion that our
intentions were anything but deferential or that anything was
taken from the area," the studio said in a statement.
A publicist for O'Brien did not immediately respond to requests
for comment.
O'Brien's remark prompted an online petition, with more than
54,000 people calling for the return of any stolen objects from
the ranch where the film was shot last year.
The site in question is the 22,000-acre Diamond Tail Ranch in
the high desert between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
It is not home to any known Indian burial grounds, said property
manager Roch Hart, who was unable to detect anything missing
from the site's trove of items, including pottery shards and
chippings of rock tools. Hart estimated the items dated from 800
A.D. to 1700.
(Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon; Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy and
Richard Chang)
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