Fresh off the controversy over Anne Hathaway and her Catwoman suit, the set of The Dark Knight Rises is dealing with another CAT-astrophe. (*ducks tomatoes*) During a fight scene outside a courthouse, Hathaway’s stunt double was driving down the steps of the building and crashed into an IMAX camera. In a post titled ” ‘Dark Knight’ Stunt Fail: Catwoman CRUSHES Camera,” TMZ covered the story with the type of measured, subtle reaction they’ve become known for.
The budget for “Batman: The Dark Knight Rises” might have just jumped up another six figures — because last Friday, Catwoman’s stunt double BARRELED through a super-expensive IMAX camera … and TMZ has the crushing footage.
It’s unclear who messed up — the stunt-double or the cameraman — but either way, the camera appeared to be blown to smithereens.
Never change, TMZ. “CATWOMAN CRUSHES CAMERA AND BLASTS IT INTO KINGDOM COME. It’s not clear who was too blame. BUT ZOMGOMG WAS SHE DRUNK I DUNNO MORE FROM OUR SOURCES SOON P.S. SHE WAS PROBABLY DRUNK.” It’s even more ridiculous when you watch the video (which you can find on TMZ’s site by yourself, because I’m not tossing them any more traffic on this). This lady drove pretty much in a straight line down the stairs and bumped into the camera, knocking a small piece of it off. Doesn’t seem like a big deal, right?
Sources close to production tell us both the camera and the cameraman were not injured during the incident — but if you look closely, you can SEE camera shrapnel … and fixing those things ain’t cheap!
So, to recap: There’s this video of someone bumping into a camera, sources very close to the story indicated nothing was harmed that bad, and TMZ managed to shoehorn the words “CRUSHES,” “BARRELED,” “smithereens,” and “shrapnel” into the post. And you thought my post about Ashley Greene making a mojito was stupid.