Does anyone know if Landis still gets asked questions about what happened to Vic Morrow and the two kids? I would think that it would be something that most reporters would never let him live down.
shareI personally want to spit in Landis' face.
I hope that POS is haunted until his dying day.
I have a crush on Vic Morrow. :)
I think that the interview linked below is a good indication of what happens these days. The accident is mentioned in the final write up but doesn't seem to have been brought up with Landis himself.
I think that people have just left it, now. It would probably seem bad taste on the part of the interviewer for bringing it up, as if they were trying for cheap points.
I suspect that if a good enough interviewer asked in advance, some day he might have a decent conversation about it in front of the camera, but in general, I'd say people just avoid it.
http://screencomment.com/2011/12/an-evening-with-john-landis/
^^ (2011, I think)
Please do not make negative comments about a film YOU NEVER SAW. It makes you look stupid.
I remember Howard Stern asking him about it in a phone interview about 15 or so years ago. I can't remember exactly what he said but it was something about how it was the worst time of his life and needed to get as far away from Hollywood as he could right after it happened, which is why he chose Trading Places as his next project since it was mostly filmed in Philadelphia. I remember his saying elsewhere that his relationship with Eddie Murphy ended because Murphy did not come to his trial to support him, amongst other things.
shareGood for Eddie Murphy.
I just remembered that he and Landis worked together in 'Coming to America' in the late-80's,so they must have made amends.
C.C. Loves B.G.
Maybe to much is pointed at Landis. Where's his career now ? He was a superb movie maker. It's always been him who's been blamed,but it wasn't him who was forcing kids to work at night time which was illegal . Someone made those decisions. Spielberg seems to escape a lot of the blame . It's been said that he fled the country after the incident. Why ? Also why is so many of the films faults blamed on this terrible event . I mean changing a whole story .whats that got to do with it .i would like to hear from family's of deceased or people on set at time. I bet they didn't point finger at john landis .but they been well rehearsed in what would happen if they said anything . It will come out one day.
Btw I thought it was quite a good movie .lets hope no incidents happen like that again during the making of any movie
Yeah Steven got off (or ran away) lucky.
You Suck...now deal with it.
Landis was a megalomaniac with all the maturity of a 10 year old boy. He'd just come off some big hits, so he had free rein to do whatever he wanted. And what he wanted was big explosions and lots of fire and mayhem in that scene where Morrow (who was in his fifties) was carrying two children across a body of water. He had no concern for the safety of the actor or the children. All he cared about was making his segment of the movie as spectacularly violent as possible.share
In the scene a helicopter is hovering over Morrow and the kids; Landis was screaming into a bullhorn "Lower, lower, lower! Fire, fire, fire!" The helicopter dipped lower, more explosions were set off and one of the chopper's wings was crippled. The aircraft came crashing down on Morrow, decapitating him. The kids were crushed and dismembered.
Landis was brought up on manslaughter charges, but was acquitted by a star-struck jury. What a travesty. He murdered Vic Morrow and those kids. Three people dead for a crummy movie, and the person responsible for it gets off scot free. That's Hollywood!
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reply 18 03/01/2012