Action Stunts

During the movies, you may hold your breath and bite your nails during all the action scenes—but you know everything on screen is all planned and not real. Filming these scenes, however, is another story. Dangerous stunts require intense planning and careful execution. Unfortunately, all the planning in the world can’t prevent some stunts from going awry. For example…

• In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Daniel Radcliffe (who plays Harry), partakes in multiple broom riding scenes. During one of the flying sequences, an explosion knocked Radcliff’s stunt double to the ground, causing him to lose the feeling in his legs.
• While filming Nicholas Cage’s new movie The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, a stunt driver lost control of a speeding Ferrari in Times Square and careened directly into a pizza parlor. Two bystanders were injured, but the driver was unscathed. (more…)