CONFIRMED.......another accident concerning SA crew

mara · a grateful fan

CONFIRMED.......another accident concerning SA crew

Oom · Soon to be retired blabbermouth

Sounds like an ambulance chaser got to her in the first five minutes of the accident.

randy4sure · "Simplicity at its finest"

okay, this will not be a popular post, but i have to say it. first of all, my heart and sympathy goes out to everyone involved in these tragic accidents. nic may not have been on set, but i can't believe he would fail to be affected by these incidents. i truly wish all the best for everyone involved. BUT, i saw the footage of the first accident on the news the day after it happened. it was graffic, scary, and just plain awful. nevertheless, it was an ACCIDENT, and i was greatly relieved to hear both pedestrians involved were treated and released the same night. i was so gratified that they were okay. next thing i know they are inteviewing a LAWYER representing the woman who was involved. she managed to lay the ground work for a lawsuit, retain a lawyer, and have him publically decrying the incident as negligent, all within 24 hours of the accident. that is, strictly in my opinion, pathetic. she is obviously one of the many people in this country who are litigious without thought. that is not to say that she has no cause. but, one would think she would take this route only after she gave the production people a chance to see to her needs. yet it only took her 24 hours to proceed. it is hard for me to respect that. sorry if this offends anyone. it is just one opinion, mine. not that of cagefactor or any of it's members.
peace, out
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TreasureProtector · Veteran Member

OH NO!!!

That's terrible. I'm glad no one was seriously injured... but still, man! That's rough. I feel bad for everyone, even the director Jon Turltetaub. He seems to blame himself when things go wrong, (from what I heard from listening to interviews and commentaries) so I hope he doesn't take this too hard. Also it's not fair to blame anyone in particular for this. They both seem like freak accidents. I hope this doesn't mess with release date of the move :-/ I still wanna see it.

mara · a grateful fan

Ooops I trod on your foot dear! Didn´t notice you had posted this already... Gonna change my post to this thread...

I don´t believe in luck, good or bad, but sometimes things like this make me wonder... Hope the shooting can be resumed with no more incidents, we´ve had our fair share of frights already!

re: yet another car accident!

Don´t worry, Nic wasn´t involved this time either... But it´s such an infortunate coincidence, 48 hours after the first accident! Some crew members were the victims of a car out of control which wasn´t involved in the shooting of TSA (in fact they had wrapped for the night). Luckily none of them were seriously injured. But I guess they will be happy to move on and shoot scenes in an indoors set from now on...

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/sorcerers.apprentice.nicolas.2.1002458.html

-- Edited by mara on Wednesday 6th of May 2009 01:53:21 PM

Oom · Soon to be retired blabbermouth

A TV news video

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/98595/six-film-crew-members-injured-in-midtown/Default.aspx

Oom · Soon to be retired blabbermouth

This didn't happen 'on set' but crew members were injured.....How freaky coming on top of the other accident............

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/05/06/2009-05-06_is_sorcerer_cursed_car_accident_strikes_film_crew__again.html

BY Barry Paddock AND Jonathan Lemire
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Updated Wednesday, May 6th 2009, 11:50 AM

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An SUV swerving to avoid a cab careened onto the 7th Avenue sidewalk underneath the "Mamma Mia" marquee.

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An injured woman is tended to by paramedics.

Is the "Sorcerer" cursed?

For the second time in three days, a car jumped a curb on the Times Square set of Nicolas 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."

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