Nicolas Cage Movie Stunt Goes Awry; Injures Two
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Nicolas Cage‘s latest movie is already a smash hit in New York. And that’s bad news.
A car chase stunt sequence for the Oscar winner’s new flick, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, went awry last night in Times Square, with a vehicle careening into a pizza parlor and injuring two bystanders.
The accident occurred around 1 a.m. as a Ferrari darted down Seventh Avenue to keep pace with a Mercedes, whose stunt driver apparently lost control and ended up plowing into the entrance of a Sbarro.
Although the street had been closed for filming, plenty of pedestrians were watching the action unfold—some too close for comfort…
“The Ferrarri took a sharp right to the left and lost it, swerving across the lanes, taking out a lamppost and a newsstand,” British tourist Mark Watkins, who was stationed atop bleachers at the new TKTS booth, told the New York Post,. “One lady was knocked to the ground and a lamppost landed directly on top of a chap.”