The last few weeks, marvel’s being going out of its way to promote Thunderbolts as not your average mcu outing. It’s Got Big-Uname Actor, Sure, But They’re from Mid-Size Hits Like A different man and Midsommar, And Creative Forces Behind Beef, Minari, and Everything Everywahere All at OnceNow, it’s telling you it’s a different type of film By Hyping up the realness of its stunts.
Y’KNow That One Scene in the Trailers of Yalena Falling off the Merdeka 118, A Skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur? That’s a very real thing florence pugh did; In the feature, she talked about being excited for that Particular Moment Since She first read the script. According to Director Jake Schreier, Disney’s Health and Safety Team was undersrstandably Hesitant to do this –t 678.2 meters (or 2,227 feet), the Merdeka is the Merdeka is the second-tallestru Behind the Burj Khalifa – But Schreier Felt the Film Needed Something Needed “A Little More Weight and Surprise.” What likely helped sell it to disney was pugh’s insurance on doing it Team. ” Check it and the official version that’ll open the movie down below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3DVH7PDCHK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzvlqobjl8o
Now that is a pretty cool bit of stunt work, and you can tell everyone in the production took doing this very Seriously. Turns out, that’s not the only real bit of work in the film: the Scene where Yelena Walks after the floor of a building explodes is also real. Schreier Reveled They Shot that hours after breaking down the merdeka rig. There’ve been a lot of explosions in the mcu over the years, so seeing Thunderbolts Get to make that and the merdeka sequence real is a nice change of pace. It’s an interesting time for this feature to drop – Stit Performs will finally Get Oscar Recognition In a less years, and marvel would certain like Wants some academy goldIf they can’t get wins for acting or best picture, technical work like this or vfx may be enough to brag about.
Eather Way, Thunderbolts* And its many, many stunts hit theaters on May 2.
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