Burt Ward Death Footage

"They did have to use every inch of Burt Ward."

– Patton Oswald, Best of the Worst: Plinketto #8.

"Go now, and don't screw up!"

– Burt Ward, minutes before his death, Alien Force.

Introduction

The Burt Ward Death Footage (AKA "Ron Ford Losing His Mind") is a lost video recording taking place on the set of the 1996 science fiction film Alien Force, which was American actor Burt Ward's last role before his death in the Lost Media sector of the Burkehead Realm. No known recordings exist of this event, but a community of lost media preservers on the Lost Media Wiki and the official Uncovering Burt Ward's Death Discord server have been dedicated to finding, recording, and uploading a complete, undamaged tape of the event, and many have recounted how it unfolded from memory after happening upon it through a dark web link on the Tor browser. Because all descriptions of the occurrence match up almost perfectly, the recording is widely believed to exist, and efforts have been made to contact the creators of Alien Force—a film featured on Plinketto #8 of the YouTube channel RedLetterMedia's internet show, Best of the Worst, guest-starring American comedian Patton Oswald—but little progress has been made in this department. Questions and comments on the subject have been emailed to the film's director, Ron Ford, but he has failed to respond to any of them.

Allegedly, the 8mm film reel was captured as an unused backup take for Alien Force that was supposedly leaked, digitized, and uploaded onto a deep web gore site called The Cost of Fame, which hosts a vast database of celebrity death footage. The take was filmed for a scene in which Ward's character, an omnipotent extraterrestrial emperor called Omnipresent Praxima, sends a heavily armed warfighter named Trace (Tyrone Wade) to Earth with the mission of eliminating a meteorite containing the souls of deadly alien predators before his archrival Gorek can retrieve it. Supposedly, Ward's paycheck for his appearance was exaggerated by Ford, and after Ward finished filming the scene in the middle of the Mojave Desert in southeastern California and attempted to flee the production, Ford tackled him, dragged him by his feet, and threatened him with a lead pipe into appearing in a backup take. As the camera rolled, Ward was beaten mercilessly in the face with the pipe, had his face smashed against the van he came in, beaten again with the pipe, and stomped into the sand until his face was eroded down to the skull. Ward finally agreed to Ford's demand, despite most of his face being gone, but when he had trouble standing up, Ford stood on his head with both feet and stomped furiously until Ward's brain matter had been emptied onto the sand, killing him.