Meet the Courageous Amputee Who Stunt Doubles Paul Rudd on Ant-Man and the Wasp
Stunt performer Brett Smrz is living proof that one of the film industry’s most difficult jobs attracts the very best people. When Smrz was 16, he lost his lower left leg in a trampoline accident. Yet today, Smrz is a professional stunt driver and one of two of Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man stunt doubles. When you ...
See how this Insane Stunt in Atomic Blonde Was Pulled Off
Director David Leitch is one of the film world’s premiere stunt choreographers. The former stunt coordinator made his name helming the first John Wick, and he brought his talents for creating mesmerizing, death-defying stunts to his next film, Atomic Blonde. Starring Charlize Theron as an MI6 agent who is sent alone into Berlin to retrieve ...
Stunt Performer Annabel Wood is a Real Life Wonder Woman
When she hears the word action, Annabel Wood’s job is to take the command literally. She very often makes her living dying. All in all, Wood has died more times than she can count – and she keeps coming back from more. She’s a stunt performer, and one of the best in the business. She ...
Tom Cruise has Done a Year of Prep for Mission: Impossible 6 Stunt
Fearless, ageless and relentless, Tom Cruise is at it again. Yesterday we shared this video of Cruise and co-star Annabell Wallis doing a stunt in zero gravity for their upcoming film The Mummy. Little did we know we'd find out only a day later that he's cooking up an even more impressive stunt for Mission: Impossible 6. Never ...
See how They Filmed in Zero Gravity for The Mummy
We’ve long admired Tom Cruise’s insane commitment to performing his own stunts. When we interviewed stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood about Cruise's work on Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation, he talked about all the ways in which Cruise is the most prepared actor he’s ever worked with. This is a necessary attribute when the stunts you’re performing are as extreme as Cruise’s ...
How John Wick: Chapter 2‘s Stunt Coordinator Challenged Keanu Like Never Before
Keanu Reeves thrilled action fans three years ago when his title character killed 141 bad guys in John Wick. For John Wick: Chapter 2, opening Friday, stunt coordinator J.J. Perry faced a formidable challenge: How do you take somebody who’s already played a super-lethal hit man and make him even more deadly? "The obvious way ...
La La Land‘s Choreographer Puts the Pep in the Musical’s Steps
Mandy Moore, 40, a four-time Emmy nominee lauded for her routines on the talent competition show So You Think You Can Dance, is one of the most in-demand choreographers working today. She just finished Season 23 of Dancing With the Stars and is currently in rehearsals for the touring version, which kicks off Dec. 16. And she is film ...
Tom Cruise’s Most Insane Stunt Yet: the Zero Gravity Scene in The Mummy
We've written about the insane dedication Tom Cruise has put in to accomplishing the most ambitious practical stunts, rivaling some of the work of the very best stunt performers. When we interviewed stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood about Cruise's work on Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation, he talked about all the ways Cruise is consistently prepared and extremely ...
How the Trainer for Bleed For This Whipped Miles Teller into Shape
Boxing coach Darrell Foster had eight months to transform Will Smith into his Oscar-nominated version of Muhammad Ali for the 2001 bio pic Ali. With the fact-based Bleed For This (Nov. l8), he only had a few weeks to teach Miles Teller how to fight like five-time world champion Vinny Pazienza, who severed his spine in ...
See how they Filmed the Fight Scene Between Captain America and the Winter Soldier
There were a lot of big, bruising brawls in Captain America: Civil War, but none are more personal than when Cap fights his best friend (of 80 years!) the Winter Soldier, aka Bucky Barnes. In this behind-the-scenes clip unveiled by Marvel, directors Joe and Anthony Russo show us how they built this fight early in the film. ...
Watch Assassin’s Creed Stunt Performer’s Historic 125 Foot Free Fall
It's actually hard to watch. Michael Fassbender's stunt double in Assassin's Creed pulls off one of the highest free falls in almost 35 years. Stunt performer Damien Walters is one of the best in the business, which is why they trusted he could pull off this death-defying feat successfully. Director Justin Kurzel wanted to ground the action of Assassin's ...
Chatting With Daredevil’s Emmy-Nominated Stunt Coordinator Philip J. Silvera
Stunt coordinator Philip J. Silvera is one of the best in the business. In recent years, he's put his touch on one of the greatest fight scenes in recent memory (the bruising final beat down in Deadpool), helped make Iron Man 3 the best Tony Stark film of the bunch, and, applied his martial arts expertise to the animated ...
Check out the Incredible Stunts in Captain America: Civil War
You know what's even cooler than watching how some of the stunts were done in Captain America: Civil War? Watching them in slow motion. Especially the truck flipping over—and through—a bridge. The gang at Screen Slam were on the set of Civil War and got this incredible footage of some of the stunt work that went into the film. Some of the ...
New Captain America: Civil War Behind-the-Scenes Footage
At some point today, Marvel is going to drop a new Captain America: Civil War trailer on us, with the juiciest rumor being that Spider-Man will be featured heavily. While we await the trailer's release, there's a lot of new stuff already out there, including this behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the movie by Entertainment Tonight. This look at ...
How Quentin Tarantino Protege Zoe Bell Traded Stunts For Acting
It’s not easy to switch from movie “staff” to acting, and Zoe Bell credits being “deluded” or at least “clueless” for her move from stuntwoman to actress. Quentin Tarantino deserves some credit, too. After working with Bell as Uma Thurman’s stunt double in Kill Bill, he went on to cast her in 2007’s Death Proof, ...
A Bond Unbroken: Spectre Stunt Coordinator Gary Powell Carries Family Legacy
Working on a Bond film isn’t anything new to Gary Powell, the stunt coordinator of Spectre. His family has been working on the series since the Sean Connery days. “It was follow around in the family tradition or get kicked out,” Powell told The Credits about his choice to get into the movie stunt business, ...
Mission: Impossible Stunt Coordinator on Tom Cruise’s Feats
Tom Cruise is famous for his tenacity when it comes to performing his own stunts, but now that he’s in his fifties he would be forgiven for taking things a little bit easier. But that just isn’t Cruise’s style. If anything, he’s pushing himself harder than ever. Take the opening scene of Mission Impossible: Rogue ...
The Two Most Intense Stunts in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
When it comes to stunts and action set pieces in franchise films, we want them bigger, better, faster, and more insane in each new film. From Fast & Furious to The Avengers have to deal with a monster of their own making—how to one up the last thing they did, which was often, at the ...
10 New Photos From Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Reveal Epic Stunts
As we've discussed before, Tom Cruise became an action star largely due to his incredible stunt work in the Mission: Impossible series. Recently, CineFix even put together this "Art of the Scene" detailing how Cruise's vault heist scene in the very first Mission: Impossible (his Ethan Hunt needs to still a CIA cover list from their HQ) made him an action star ...
Getting Edgy With Kill Bill Sword Choreographer Tetsuro Shimaguchi
I’m standing in a dimly lit bar located two floors below street level in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, while a man clad in black is rapidly approaching while swinging a Samurai sword directly towards my neck. I’ve had interviews go better. The weapon of note is being welded by expert swordsman Tetsuro Shimaguchi, best ...
