00:00 Obviously this was a sort of a love letter to Stunts and that having been in
00:04 the business for over two decades as a stunt performer and coordinator I wanted
00:09 to make sure that we were doing some really big practical stunts and also I
00:13 wanted to pay sort of a homage to the history of Stunts and doing some really
00:18 fun ones in the spirit of some of the classics.
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00:23 David challenged the team to break a world record he actually even put it in
00:29 the script and ended up deciding that it was a cannon roll and that's from Casino
00:35 Royale was the last longest car roll I think they had the world record before
00:40 we, on film I should say, that one went downhill and ours was on sand flat
00:46 which is sand is hard because that cannon hits down into a surface and the
00:51 harder the surface the easier it is to roll it I don't know how but somehow we
00:55 all were like we're gonna get eight and a half or I think it was eight and a
00:58 half but was like always we're gonna get eight and a half like we want eight and a half
01:02 because I think the last record was seven.
01:05 The high fall was kind of inspired by
01:07 Sharky's Machine you know there was a great high fall in that movie
01:10 Assassin's Creed yeah Damian Walters did one maybe 150 feet 125 feet something
01:16 and we had you know we did what was our 150.
01:22 True Lies is such a great movie for action and relationship right and the
01:27 stakes involved in those sequences there's the final helicopter gag where
01:32 you know he's holding he grabs her from the limo as it's going over the edge and
01:38 helicopters rising up and he's got her by one hand like that's an insane stunt
01:43 to drive the car off of the bridge and lift her up that's a really insane stunt.
01:55 The chase where we have the garbage bin spinning around and things like that
01:58 that was really inspired by Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade there's a
02:02 great truck sequence in that where Indy is like trying to transfer from truck to
02:06 truck and like he's hanging behind it and I think we started out there but
02:09 then as the guys got into the choreography that started to become its
02:12 own version of that it's definitely inspired by Indiana Jones and sort of
02:16 how he's always some overwhelmed and outmatched but somehow figures a clever
02:21 way out of it. And when he's under the truck being pulled yeah.
02:26 Dragged behind the truck. That whole era of stunts from the from those 80s action movies 80s
02:32 and 90s action movies are baked into the DNA of the Fall Guy for sure.
02:38 There's a big car jump at the end of the movie that's inspired by Smokey and the
02:43 Bandit and Hooper both Burt Reynolds movies so it was really fun to like
02:48 figure out like how can we take that to the next level. First sort of truck jump
02:52 in the movie it's inspired by the Fall Guy television show. Every episode you'd
02:57 see the truck the GMC Sierra enter the chase from behind the hedge or bushes or
03:04 over a wall and it was always sort of this classic like here are the bad guys
03:07 and then they would come in hot pursuit. So we wanted to sort of do that same
03:11 sort of jump with the new Sierra and we did it. It was great. It was fun.
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