7 Injured on Hudson Film

February 16 -- Production on Kate Hudson's new movie, Four Feathers, was halted Friday after a horse accident the day before left seven on the London set injured.

Six extras and a horse handler were hurt, according to the BBC. A statement from the film's production team read, "An accident occurred on the site of Four Feathers on location at the Greenwich Naval College involving a horse, a carriage, a horse handler, and six background players. Four of the injured were hospitalized while three were treated on the scene."

Neither Hudson nor her co-star Wes Bentley were on the set at the time of the accident, the BBC reports.

Filming was halted out of respect for the actors who were hurt. The production statement noted that the horse handlers on hand to help with the scene were highly experienced.

Shooting on Four Feathers began in Morocco before moving to London. The twice-filmed tale follows a British officer (played by Heath Ledger) who resigns his post just before a battle during the British Empire's conquest of the Sudan. He is given four white feathers by his friends and his fiancée as symbols of what they see as his cowardice. To regain his honor, the young man seizes on a bold plan to disguise himself as Sudanese, infiltrate the enemy capital, and free his captured comrades.