‘Midnight Rider’ Director Randall Miller Sues DGA to Overturn Lifetime Ban

Randall Miller, the director who served a year in a Georgia jail for a fatal accident on the set of “Midnight Rider,” has sued the Directors Guild of America in a bid to overturn his lifetime expulsion.

Miller pleaded guilty in 2015 to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Sarah Jones, the camera assistant who was struck by a freight train while the crew was attempting to film a scene on a bridge without permission.

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Seven years later, the DGA expelled Miller for life, effectively prohibiting him from directing a signatory film.

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