Action star Jackie Chan reveals he was
due at the World Trade Center last
Tuesday to shoot scenes for an
upcoming film, but that filming was
canceled at the last minute because of
a late script.
"I would
probably have died if the shooting had
gone ahead as planned," Chan
tells the Hong Kong newspaper Oriental
Daily News about filming the
action-comedy Nosebleed, in
which he was to star as a window
washer who foils a terrorist scheme to
blow up the Statue of Liberty.
"Filming
was scheduled to have taken place at
7:00 a.m. last Tuesday morning. … I
had to be at the top of one of the
towers for one of the scenes,"
Chan tells the paper, adding
"Well, I guess my time is not up
yet."
Nosebleed,
along with several other films with
terrorist plots or scenes involving
the World Trade Center, is being
reworked to avoid any resemblance to
last week's tragedy. A spokeswoman for
MGM said last week that it was
"premature" to discuss how
the script might be changed.
Close
Calls for Family Guy
Cartoonist, Real World Cast
Member
Other people reporting close shaves
include Family Guy creator Seth
MacFarlane, who is alive thanks to an
error in his flight itinerary, and an
MTV Real World cast member, who
changed her flight plans after
fighting with her boyfriend.
Both were due
to fly from Boston to Los Angeles on
the doomed American Airlines Flight
11, which left at 7:45 a.m. last
Tuesday.
MacFarlane,
whose itinerary said his flight would
leave at 8:15 a.m., got to the gate
just as boarding was finished. Trying
to persuade gate agents to let him on
"is something I would have
pressed them on in the past, but for
some reason I didn't this time — and
thank God," he told USA Today.
While waiting in a lounge for the next
flight, he learned Flight 11 had
crashed into the World Trade Center.
"I just sort of stared at the
screen and said, 'Oh, my God.'"
he said. "I've thought about it a
lot, but it really hasn't sunk in yet.
I saved the itinerary. I figure it's a
piece of history. It was much too
close of a shave for me," he
tells the newspaper.
Real
World, New Orleans' Julie Stoffer,
21, had an argument with her boyfriend
Monday night and considered canceling
her trip to see him. A friend drove
her to the airport, and she decided at
the last moment not to take the
flight. Her mother didn't know whether
Julie was aboard until she heard from
her daughter two hours later,
according to The Associated Press.
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