Is this Jackie Chan story true?

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Sorry, I can’t find a cite for it on Yahoo or Google, but the story I heard on some news show (I think it was Today) is this:

He was making a new movie (Nosebleed), about a WTC window-washer who stops a terrorist plot (and I presume that movie will either never get made or will be substantially changed). There was some kind of delay with the script so they called off that day’s shooting.

Allegedly:

The day was 9-11-01.

The time was 7:00 AM.

The place was the roof of one of the WTC towers.

Has anyone else heard this story? Is it another UL promoted by America’s news clowns? http://www.imdb.com doesn’t mention Nosebleed at all. And the Jackie Chan Fan Club says he was in Toronto filming Tuxedo.

Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me?

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Looks like Nosebleed is indeed an upcoming movie.

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Here’s a link: http://us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/2001/20010919.html
Partway down the page.

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Okay, I know that there was to be a movie, but the story was that Chan and the crew were to be on the roof of one of the towers the day of the attacks. That isn’t true? Filming on Nosebleed hasn’t even started yet, right?

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The last entry on Corona’s Coming Attractions site (www.corona.be.ca) puts the project in Development Hell, with the last entry thus:
November 2, 2000… According to a email we received from a vendor trying to do some business with this film’s production company, it might be no more. Our scooper called Midnight Sun (Renny Harlin’s production company) and asked what the status was on Nosebleed, and apparently [Renny] Harlin’s people said it’s possibly dead. The movie tracking site 4filmmakers has only New Line and no other production companies listed on their page. Is there anyone working on this project who’d like to help out our friend make contact? [Anonymous.]

Considering I’ve been in a newsroom for six out of the last eight days, and I haven’t heard word one about this, I suspect it’s nonsense.

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Here’s a piece from Ain’t It Cool News. It’s pulling it’s information from USA Today.

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The Guardian seems to think it’s true:

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The fan club page states that he was in Toronto on 9/10. It was Tuxedo that was held up a day; Nosebleed was in preproduction.

Sooooo, the Guardian fabricated a quote to support an unsubstantiated story! I love that “probably”, too.

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AICN seems to be down right now. (Whaddaya expect from a website run by a guy who lives in his father’s basement?) :wink:

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Nothing in the english language papers in Hong Kong. I suspect this is a made up story. When Jackie did the filming for Armor of God in Yugoslavia, fell 50 feet, wedged his head in a crevice in the late 1980’s, Hong Kong and Taiwan went into mourning. This should have made the papers…

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According to snopes it’s true.

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I don’t buy it. According to Entertainment Weekly, they were still finishing up the script. If it were true, they would have been the first people to jump all over and exploit it to death.

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Well, slackergirl, I’m going to have to trust snopes.com. They’ve never lied to me before.

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I believe snopes, too. From what I read, it sounds like just a weird coincidence. Nothing Twilight Zone-ish about it. Script wasn’t done, so they didn’t shoot. Except for the timing, there’s nothing about this story that really smacks of an urban legend.

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That’s funny, because you’d think that if it were true, he would have mentioned it in the piece he wrote on his official website:

http://jackiechan.stareastnet.com/eng/column/index.html

Let me clarify my earlier statement - I believe that Snopes reported correctly that the someone else reported the story, but I don’t believe the original story is true in and of itself. Even Snopes agrees that the article did not give any details as to when the decision was made. I would buy the idea that months ago they had planned to shoot the movie starting that day, and that months ago they delayed filming, but the whole last minute switch thing is a giant crock of b.s. The movie was not in production.
From Entertainment Weekly dated 9/28/01:

“It represents capitalism. It represents freedom. It represents everything America is about. And to bring those two buildings down would bring America to its knees.” This horrifying snippet of dialogue is from Nosebleed, a Jackie Chan film project about a window washer…The script was written nearly two years ago and has been in development ever since; just last month, its authors met with MGM to discuss a rewrite. But now, after the events of last week, it’s a safe bet the movie will be scrapped.

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It’s not unusual for filming to begin on a movie before the script is finished. (Jurassic Park 3 is a recent example. Casablanca is a famous example.) And, yeah, it can take two years to finish a script because of logistical problems with finding locations (getting permits can be a bitch) and casting and such.

They’d also have to be grossly insensitive to the efforts of other producers who have been eliminating shots of the WTC from their films and TV shows. Exploiting Chan’s near-miss would be tasteless in light of these other actions. Producers used to believe “all publicity is good publicity.” Not anymore; the audience has changed.