Nicholas Cupac, a 54-year-old British camera grip working on the final Indiana Jones film, was found dead in his hotel room in Fes, Morocco, on October 31, 2021. An inquest has now confirmed that he died of ischaemic heart disease, a condition that develops over time due to restricted blood flow to the heart, The Daily Mail reported Tuesday. Cupac was one of 100 crew members in Morocco filming Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth and final installment in the iconic adventure franchise starring Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. According to senior coroner Crispin Butler, the post-mortem was conducted in Morocco before Cupac's body was repatriated to the UK, where his death was officially ruled as «natural causes». In a heartfelt tribute shared through his trade union, Bectu, Cupac's mother Jenny expressed the profound loss: «He didn't just have friends, he valued them... I feel blessed to have been his mother. My world will never be the same». According to the Grips Branch of Bectu, Cupac had been battling sleep apnea and wasn't feeling his best before taking the job in Morocco. Yet he went anyway. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny—filmed in England, Scotland, Morocco, and Italy—faced multiple delays due to the pandemic, shifting from an initial release date of July 2021 to finally hitting theatres in June 2023. The project brought to a close a saga that began with Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981.
