London bus explodes in film stunt, but not everyone's impressed

By frank

 

A screen grab of a video tweeted by a local London fire service, @FireLambeth, of a stunt bus blast.

London (CNN)It wasn't quite the lazy Sunday afternoon everyone in central London was expecting.

An iconic red double decker bus slowly moved across the River Thames over Lambeth Bridge before it dramatically exploded into a plume of flames.

But tourists and bystanders need not have panicked -- it was apparently in the name of a new Jackie Chan movie called "The Foreigner." Local politician Nigel Huddleston reassured his Twitter followers.