Accident on the Set

[daber]

There was an accident in NYC yesterday during the filming of Sorcerer's Apprentice. A car in the car chase scene smashed into a pizza store in Times Square. I believe no one was seriously hurt.

However, I don't remember the car chase scene in the original 1940 version, or that Yensid had a girlfriend!

You can count me as one of the "you can't drag me to see this turkey" crowd. Even with Nick Cage in it. Ain't happening.

 

[CoolTrainerTerry]

Full article, courtesy of Yahoo!


NEW YORK (Reuters) - A stunt man filming a car chase in Times Square for a new Nicolas Cage movie crashed his Ferrari into a store front and two pedestrians suffered minor injuries, police and the film's producers said on Monday.

The crash, which happened early on Monday, was captured on amateur video that was posted on the New York Post website, www.nypost.com .

It showed two cars weaving in between other traffic before the front one skidded out of control, mounting the sidewalk and crashing into the window of an outlet of an Italian chain restaurant.

Normal traffic in Times Square had been shut down for the filming of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," and all the cars in the video were part of the movie shoot.

Police said a 23-year-old man was hit by a falling pole and complained of a head injury, and a 21-year-old woman suffered a foot injury. Both injuries were considered minor and the stunt man driving the car was uninjured.

"On site production medics responded immediately and two pedestrians were taken to the hospital for evaluation," said a statement from the production of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," which is a Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films production.

"One person has been released and while we were told the second person was also released we have not been able to confirm that," said the statement. "All safety regulations were followed and second unit filming will continue as planned."

Due for release in mid-2010, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is the story of a college student reluctantly recruited to work for a sorcerer, played by Cage. Set in contemporary New York, it is based on the segment of the same name from the Disney animated film "Fantasia."

(Reporting by Claudia Parsons)

 

[P.I. Squirrel]

Is it just me, or does it appear that the fellow to the left appears to jump under the falling pole?

Lawsuit anyone?

 

[KYMickey]

Is it just me, or does it appear that the fellow to the left appears to jump under the falling pole?
Lawsuit anyone?

I thought the same thing, it seems like he came out of nowhere to get under the pole! I wondered for a couple of minutes if maybe the whole thing was actually planned as part of the movie and it just surprised those watching.

 

[bentleygirl22]

Is it just me, or does it appear that the fellow to the left appears to jump under the falling pole?

Lawsuit anyone?

Its funny that you said that because i said that earlier today and my hubby said i was crazy ... Hhhhmmmm!!

 

[P.I. Squirrel]

Its funny that you said that because i said that earlier today and my hubby said i was crazy ... Hhhhmmmm!!

Maybe your husband is blind....

It was obvious.

 

[KYMickey]

Is 'Sorcerer' cursed? Car accident strikes film crew -- again! 9 injured
BY Barry Paddock AND Jonathan Lemire
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Is the "Sorcerer" cursed?

For the second time in three days, a car jumped a curb on the Times Square set of Nicholas Cage's new movie "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." Nine members of his film's crew were injured in Wednesday's crash.

An SUV swerving to avoid a cab careened onto the 7th Ave. sidewalk, slamming into a group of crew members who had gathered underneath the marquee of "Mamma Mia!" at the Winter Garden Theater.

"I heard people scream," said the SUV's passenger Dijon Rhem, who was returning from dinner to celebrate her 21st birthday. "I heard people yelling."

The driver of the BMW X5 SUV, Laura Conti, told investigators a yellow cab changed lanes without signaling and swerved right in front of her SUV at 3:30 a.m.

"A taxi cab cut in front of me," Conti said, cradling her swollen hand, injured when her car's airbags exploded. "I tried to avoid an accident and that caused an accident."

Her SUV barreled a parked blue Grand Cherokee, which spun into the film's crew, clipping several people and knocking others onto the sidewalk.

The victim, many of whom were drinking coffee while sitting on milk crates under the marquee, were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.

The cab sped off into the rainy night without stopping, witnesses said.

"We ended up hurting other people because of you, and he kept going," said Conti, a nursing major at College of Mount Saint Vincent "He's probably home now sleeping."

The movie's production managers declined to comment. Filming was temporarily suspended after the accident.

On Sunday night, one of the film's stunt drivers lost control of a Ferrari speeding through Times Square and struck two bystanders as it plowed into a Sbarro pizzeria.
Neither victim in that crash was seriously injured.

The Disney-produced movie, which is due out next year, is a live action film based on the epic poem that inspired the famed animated sequence in "Fantasia."

Nicholas Cage was not on the set at the time of either accident.

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