May 5 2009Nicolas Cage Film Takes Out an Institution
Disaster on the set of The Sorcerer's Apprentice! While shooting a car chase sequence in Times Square yesterday, a stuntman in a Ferrari lost control and crashed into the front of a Sbarro's, injuring two and temporarily shutting down the one place in the city to get a genuine New York slice:
A movie chase scene got too realistic early today when a car jumped a curb during a film shoot and smashed into the entrance of a Times Square restaurant, injuring two people, police and witnesses said.The action scene gone awry unfolded at the Sbarro at 47th Street and Seventh Avenue shortly before 1 a.m.
Street closing notices posted by the police indicated the shoot was for the Nicolas Cage film, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."
(via Digg)
Oh, good, Jerry Bruckheimer and National Treasure-director Jon Turteltaub managed to squeeze a high-speed Ferrari chase into The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Sounds like they might have slightly tweaked the original 1797 Goethe poem. Who would have thought?
Well, regardless, let's hope no one else gets injured during shooting. They still have to shoot the big scene where the apprentice fires a rocket launcher while hanging one-handed off the wing of a Harrier.
Crash video below the cut.
FILM A B'WAY SMASH [New York Post]
Reader Comments
1. GET IN LINE IM FIRST UH HUH - May 5, 2009 1:25 PM
HAHA FIRST YOU ALL HANG HEADS IN SHAME REST OF DAY
2. zip - May 5, 2009 1:28 PM
Sbarro shouldn't even be allowed in New York City. Serves them right.
And #1, you're a loser.
3. GET IN LINE IM FIRST UH HUH - May 5, 2009 2:06 PM
ur just mad cuz i won lol
4. jagermouth - May 5, 2009 2:21 PM
i don't get it.
in a city where there are more pizza places than starbucks and mcdonalds,
why would you decide to open a franchised pizza place that totally sucks in a neighborhood that costs millions. does sbarros actually make good money in time square? don't tourists want to eat something they haven't tried?
regardless, sbarros got what it deserved. now if only nic cage can also crash a ferrari into all the ray's pizzas...
5. fizzy77 - May 5, 2009 2:39 PM
I love that you threw in that Office reference.
That is why I love you.
6. Seenbot - May 5, 2009 3:22 PM
he looks like alice cooper
7. che-che - May 5, 2009 4:29 PM
when some one says "crash into it" i expect the vehicle to break through the wall, or glass. this is more like he bumped into sbarros.
weak sauce dude!!!
8. jake - May 5, 2009 7:56 PM
Chakan: The Forever Man!
9. Julian - May 5, 2009 10:00 PM
Writer, If you think Sbarro is "the one place in the city to get a genuine New York slice" you're a fucking idiot and you should kill yourself immediately because you failed at life.
10. Sarah - May 6, 2009 12:46 PM
@9 Good job getting the joke!
11. Connor - May 6, 2009 6:07 PM
@ 9: Take your own advice.
12. Frank - May 7, 2009 11:40 AM
To be fair to Turtletaub, though, the Ferrari was chasing after a broom that had been brought to life and was carrying water in a hummer, when it got out of control.