What factors caused Nicolas Cage movie stunt to go awry?
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. According to the New York City Film Commission, the accident occurred around 1 a.m. as a Ferrari darted down Seventh Avenue trying keep pace with a Mercedes. The Ferrari’s stunt driver ended up losing control and hydroplaning onto a sidewalk before plowing into the entrance of a Sbarro. Although the street had been closed for filming and members of the NYPD movie/TV unit were present, 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 la
