Atomic Blonde Production Designer on Recreating Cold War Berlin

Summer 2017 got its second kickass female lead in David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde. Based on the Cold War-era thriller graphic novel The Coldest City, the film stars Charlize Theron as MI6 spy Lorraine Broughton headed to Berlin in November 1989, on the eve of the fall of the Wall. A fellow undercover MI6 operative has been killed, a death Broughton needs to untangle before all hell can break loose in the imminently reunifying country.

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 a priceless dossier, while the city is becoming completely destabilized (the wall is about to come down) and just about everyone she comes into contact with wants to kill her.

Welcome to Berlin in this new Ferocious Atomic Blonde Clip

In this new clip from Atomic Blonde, we finally meet James McAvoy’s MI6 Berlin station chief David Percival, who arrives just in time to…well, he’s a little late, but luckily Charlize Theron’s Lorraine Broughton can take care of herself.

Stunt coordinator and John Wick director David Leitch (he's also the man behind the upcoming Deadpool 2) has found an even more perfect vessel for his hyperstylized,

Watch Charlize Theron Kick Butt in new Atomic Blonde Clip

Stunt coordinator turned director David Leitch is unsurprisingly one of the best in the business at staging fights, and in Atomic Blonde, he has actually outdone his work in the original John Wick. Charlize Theron is an absolute wrecking ball in Leitch's spy thriller, and as this new clip highlights, she has become the perfect vessel for Leitch's brand of brilliantly staged, meticulously crafted stunt set pieces. Theron plays Agent Lorraine Broughton,

Atomic Blonde’s 2nd Trailer Reminds you Charlize Theron is the Bomb

We saw longtime stunt coordinator and John Wick director David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde at SXSW and were blown away. As we wrote at the time, Theron might actually be an even more perfect vessel for Leitch’s hyper stylized, ingenuously crafted action films than Wick’s Keanu Reeves. Your reminder is currently playing on HBO; Theron’s stunning performance in Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, 

SXSW 2017: Charlize Theron Goes Off in Atomic Blonde

Stunt coordinator and John Wick director David Leitch might have found an even more perfect vessel for his hyperstylized, ingenuously crafted action films than Keanu Reeves in Atomic Blonde’s ferocious Charlize Theron. Having already proven her mettle as a credibly kick-ass heroine in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, Theron cements her status as the current era’s greatest female action star,