# Once again, Mr. Rilch dodges a bullet. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-mr-rilch-dodges-a-bullet/120834 "2002-07-25T22:28:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-mr-rilch-dodges-a-bullet/120834/1 "2002-07-25T22:28:02Z")
There was a fire on the set of **T3** today. Now, the guy who informed Mr. Rilch **may** have been overstating it a tad, but he says Stage 2 has burned to the ground. Mr. Rilch was long ago reduced to a dayplayer on **T3**. Yesterday, he got a call asking him to come in today. He couldn’t, because he’d already agreed to do a de-rig on another show, which would run well past midnight, and **T3** wanted him in at 5 am. Pretty aggravating, we thought. But if he’d accepted the offer, he would have been on Stage 2. We don’t yet know if anyone was killed or injured. I devoutly hope not. This shouldn’t set filming back too much: they were nearing the end of the studio scenes, and can stick to locations until other arrangements can be made. But Mr. Rilch is now convinced he has a guardian angel. He also hopes his friends and cow-orkers do as well. (We can’t find anything on the news yet, and we’re not about to bother the production office.) ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-mr-rilch-dodges-a-bullet/120834/2 "2002-07-26T04:33:09Z")
what is T3, please? Hope no one was hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-mr-rilch-dodges-a-bullet/120834/3 "2002-07-26T04:58:47Z")
**Terminator 3**. And we still don’t know if anyone was hurt. But at this point, probably not, because if they had been, we would have heard. At least through the grapevine. Some of you may remember that Mr. Rilch also worked on **Spiderman**. He wasn’t on the spot when the crewmember on that show was killed (that was a pre-rig). But I’m still grumbling over the fact that the film was not dedicated to him. From what I’ve heard, the guy’s widow is doing more than grumble about compensation. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-mr-rilch-dodges-a-bullet/120834/4 "2002-07-26T05:02:18Z")
Glad all seems okay. At least your life is not boring. 😉 Hollywood is just strange… Interesting, but strange. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-mr-rilch-dodges-a-bullet/120834/5 "2002-07-27T02:08:44Z")
Gee, when I saw the title I was going to say that you needed the scope on your rifle sighted in again… 😛 I hope everyone is OK. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-mr-rilch-dodges-a-bullet/120834/6 "2002-07-27T07:30:19Z")
Yes, they are. No one was hurt; they exited in the proverbial quiet, orderly manner.