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25 Years Ago, Disney Had to Delay This Tim Allen Movie Because of 9/11

Originally set to open just 10 days after the attacks, Big Trouble featured a suitcase bomb and an airport terror plot that suddenly felt far too real.

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Many film and television projects were significantly affected by the events of September 11, 2001. George Carlin’s 12th HBO special, originally slated to be called I Kinda Like It When A Lotta People Die, was understandably reworked following the attacks. An episode of Friends in which Chandler and Monica are detained at an airport was similarly changed before it aired. And Jackie Chan was scheduled to shoot a movie at the World Trade Center that morning; the film was eventually shelved. 

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