{"id":28129,"date":"2024-05-03T06:10:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T10:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/should-there-be-an-oscar-for-stunts-the-fall-guy-filmmakers-say-yes\/03\/05\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T06:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T10:10:53","slug":"should-there-be-an-oscar-for-stunts-the-fall-guy-filmmakers-say-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/should-there-be-an-oscar-for-stunts-the-fall-guy-filmmakers-say-yes\/03\/05\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Should There Be an Oscar for Stunts? The \u2018Fall Guy\u2019 Filmmakers Say Yes."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cIt\u2019s baked into the film,\u201d the screenwriter Drew Pearce said in an interview from his home office. \u201cThere are not that many members of the crew who can break their back by going into work that day. The idea that they wouldn\u2019t be acknowledged but me sitting in here on a laptop is, obviously, doesn\u2019t seem just in any way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hit television show \u201cThe Fall Guy\u201d ran for five seasons in the early 1980s, and its epic action, including truck jumps<\/a> and high-elevation falls, proved to be a source of inspiration for the many Gen Xers who now dominate the stunt community. It even inspired those who didn\u2019t make it into that world but found their way to Hollywood, like Pearce (who, as a child, concocted a stuntman course in his backyard only to discover his crippling fear of heights) and another of the film\u2019s producers, Guymon Casady.<\/p>\n

Casady first convinced the TV show\u2019s creator, Glen A. Larson, to license the property to him some 20 years ago, only for it to languish in the studio development process, as various iterations, including one with Dwayne Johnson and another with Nicolas Cage, fell apart. In 2019, Casady tried again, reviving the project with Leitch, who was fresh off his success on \u201cFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw\u201d and about to start \u201cBullet Train.\u201d Leitch had begun his career as Brad Pitt\u2019s stunt double and worked as a director and producer on the \u201cJohn Wick\u201d series.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big idea from the very beginning was to make a movie where we were honoring the stunt craft,\u201d Casady said. \u201cThat was an important idea for David, obviously, given his background, but we thought it was also a really unique character.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, Leitch and company\u2019s efforts are not new.<\/p>\n

Stuntman-turned-second-unit-director Jack Gill joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in 1991, determined to get himself and his colleagues recognized. The academy told him it would take three to five years of hard work to add the category. Cut to 2024, and Gill, who has no affiliation with \u201cFall Guy,\u201d is still holding out hope that this happens in his lifetime. The new movie has made him optimistic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It’s baked into the film,” the screenwriter Drew Pearce said in an interview from his home office. “There are not that many