One of The Fall Guy’s Amazing Car Stunts Breaks a Hollywood Record (SXSW 2024)
Admittedly, Leitch’s track record behind the camera is a bit patchy (some idiot would dare call his Hobbs & Shaw spinoff the worst Fast & Furious movie, if you can believe that), which is why it comes as a relief To hear so many people praising his latest film. And if their turn at the Oscars — which was very funny, whatever its confusing lack of synergy, was — made you want to see more of Gosling and Blunt trashing each other’s skills, you’ll be happy to hear about “The Fall Guy.” It seems to deliver on that front. As /Film’s Jacob Hall put it in his review, “The duo’s sparkling chemistry is the explosive fuel that powers one of the studio’s best films in recent years, an engine carefully crafted to please the audience at every turn.”
Spectacle-wise, you’ll also want to keep your eyes peeled for the film’s record-breaking cannon roll, a maneuver in which a car is flipped without using a ramp (as pioneered by the late stunt legend Hal Needham in the 1974 John Wayne blockbuster “McQ”). ). It turns out that stunt driver Logan Holladay managed to flip this stunt car eight and a half times without the help of CGI, breaking the previous record of seven set by stuntman Adam Curley 18 years ago in “Casino Royale” in the scene in which Daniel Craig 007 stopping the barrel of his Aston Martin to avoid being run over by a tied-up Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). Not that Gosling is trying to take any credit for this. “Anytime (my character) crashes a car, catches fire, does anything cool or does parkour, that was (Holladay),” he assured the SXSW audience.
