Saturday 10 October 2020

Inferno

INFERNO (2016)

Directed by Ron Howard, this mystery-thriller is a sequel to The Da Vinci Code (2006), and Angels & Demons (2009), in the ‘Robert Langdon’ trilogy.

One action sequence features a quad-copter drone, used by Italian police to search for the fugitive hero, in an estate’s gardens in Florence. 

Friday 9 October 2020

Dishoom

DISHOOM (aka: Kapow, 2016) 

This Bollywood comedy-actioner is about mismatched cops.

The movie includes stunt flying with a Bell 412 during one of the chase sequences. 



Monday 5 October 2020

True Memoirs Of An International Assassin

TRUE MEMOIRS OF AN INTERNATIONAL ASSASSIN (2016)


This comedy-action movie’s first sequence includes a Bell 205 landing on the docks.



The hero jumps onboard to fight a henchman, and rescue a woman, before the Huey crashes into the water.



In a meta-fictional re-write of that intro, the hero jumps out just before the crash. 

This new scene begins with a clever bit of surrealistic animation - where rotors scatter letters from a re-typed page - for the dissolve.




A Huey also features in the climactic stunt sequence where the hero dangles from the landing skids, while the heroine fights the villain.


The low-flying chopper hits a tree, spins out of control, and the heroes have to jump into a jungle river.



Here's a behind-the-scenes view of a prop Huey in the visual effects studio.