Michael Caine predicted 9/11 novel

[HMG Celebrity News] – The abject horror and unbounded carnage of 9/11 will live in the dreams of all who witnessed the scene, but Sir Michael Cane had another reason for fear; He almost predicted it.

Now 77, the double-Oscar winner was working on his fifth book, a fictional novel, back in 2001 when the news broke of the attacks.

“I had this plot where terrorists fly a plane into a London skyscraper,” he told the BBC. “Then they did it in real life. I was stunned by that, so I stopped writing.”

Slowly, Sir Michael resumed his deep love of writing, and he’s just completed that indulgent voyage of spin and selective memory that is so loved by actors — An autobiography. But he still plans to write his first novel.

“It would be a thriller about terrorism,” he told the reporters. “The sort of thing I read all the time. And it’ll be for guys; It won’t be a great literary effort.”

Best known by today’s audience as Alfred the Butler in the two Batman movies, Sir Michael says he’ll start writing again once his day-job slows down. He worked with Batman’s director [and fellow Brit] Christopher Nolan on those two films, plus the Leonardo DiCaprio thriller, ‘Inception,’ and is now in preproduction with Nolan on Batman III.

“I’m completely booked up for three years so I’m okay,” he says. “I’ll be 80 when it’s all finished and I might retire.”

Meanwhile, Sir Michael’s memoir; a 416 page resume of one of the most widely loved characters in recent Hollywood history entitled ‘The Elephant to Hollywood’ is released by Hodder & Stoughton today…