{"id":788428,"date":"2026-07-08T14:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788428\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:55:17","slug":"wes-anderson-luke-wilson-trapped-in-elevator-in-l-a-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788428\/","title":{"rendered":"Wes Anderson, Luke Wilson Trapped in Elevator in L.A., On Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Wes Anderson, Luke Wilson<br \/>\n                          Elevator Ride From Hell<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              July 8, 2026<br \/>\n                            6:45 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260708_814c82242b6a4c0cb6287a645c82e08d\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:6ba4a13f-4df5-4100-992e-17563a4d0d5b\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/814c82242b6a4c0cb6287a645c82e08d_md.jpg\" alt=\"wes anderson and luke wilson getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/wes-anderson\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wes Anderson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/luke-wilson\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Wilson<\/a> had a less-than-picture-perfect Monday night &#8230; the talented duo got stuck in an elevator at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures &#8230; and they needed fire fighters to free them!!!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video shared by a production specialist, Carolyn Dunn &#8212; you can see Wes, Luke, director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/james-l-brooks\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James L. Brooks<\/a>, and at least 3 others being freed from the elevator, surrounded by members of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Wes eventually asks what happened &#8230; and the LAFD says there was too much weight in the elevator &#8212; oops!<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.<\/p>\n<p>LAFD tells TMZ &#8230; they responded to a call for a stuck elevator &#8212; elevator C, to be exact &#8212; at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures at 7:49 PM. We&#8217;re told Wes, Luke and co. were trapped for less than an hour.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260708_41c23e527d804d5084f76d0aeb31f7e5\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:6ba4a13f-4df5-4100-992e-17563a4d0d5b\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/41c23e527d804d5084f76d0aeb31f7e5_md.jpg\" alt=\"wes anderson and luke wilson getty 3\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wes, Luke, and James were at the Academy Museum for a sold-out 30th anniversary screening of Wes&#8217; debut feature, &#8220;Bottle Rocket,&#8221; which starred Luke and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/owen-wilson\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Owen Wilson<\/a>. The trio stayed for a Q&amp;A and got trapped in the elevator on their way to their cars.<\/p>\n<p>No word if they cooked up a new film idea while trapped together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wes Anderson, Luke Wilson Elevator Ride From Hell Published July 8, 2026 6:45 AM PDT Wes Anderson and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,44,82,865,866],"class_list":["post-788428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}