De-Facing A Villain: The Making of the Banner Stunt in Tomorrow Never Dies
In Bangkok, on the morning of May 21, 1997, the temperature is already climbing toward 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Mark Southwell and Wendy Leech are about…
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Borrowed from Bond: The Abandoned Tomorrow Never Dies Stunt Used in Entrapment
In Kuala Lumpur, in mid-1996, Vic Armstrong stands beneath the Petronas Towers and looks up. He has a sequence in his head. Two figures —…
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“Let’s Go Fishing”: The Mid-Air Plane Heist That Launched Licence to Kill — and the Star Who Wouldn’t Stay on the Ground
In Licence to Kill, James Bond’s best friend and DEA agent Felix Leiter is about to get married. But on the way to the church,…
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Ringbrothers’ One-Off Octavia Is an Octopussy Nod Built From a 1970s Aston Martin DBS
A martini-glass-shaped dipstick? Really, 007! Ringbrothers’ one-off Octavia turns a 1970s Aston Martin DBS into a carbon-fibre, 805-horsepower nod to Bond’s more playful side. Some…
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The Living Daylights Cargo Net Fight: How Bond’s Wildest Aerial Stunt Was Filmed
At 6,500 feet above the Mojave Desert, clinging to a cargo net at 100 knots, BJ Worth gave a signal. The signal was simple. But…
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James Bond’s Bobsled Chase: How an Abandoned, Repurposed Bob Run & Stunt Accidents Rewrote OHMSS’s Finale
In Ian Fleming’s 1963 novel, the bobsleigh chase that closes On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is over almost as soon as it begins. As Piz…
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When The Volume Stopped Working: How Star Wars Learned the Limits of StageCraft
StageCraft transformed television production when it arrived with The Mandalorian in 2019. Within four years it had become the most criticised tool in Hollywood. This…
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StageCraft: How ILM Built the Virtual Stage That Changed Production, Its Limits, and the Stages That Followed
ILM’s StageCraft is the realisation of a vision George Lucas had been articulating for years — a stage of the future in which the walls…
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Live and Let Die Bus Chase: A Bond Girl Turned Accidental Stuntwoman & How to Rig a Top Deck to Slide Off a Double-Decker Bus
Parked among Caribbean palms a few yards from the sea, a repainted double-decker London Transport bus — out of place on the tropical coastline of…
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Creating “Baby Yoda”: As the Opposite of Yoda, Grogu Shouldn’t Work. Instead He’s the Face of The Mandalorian — In More Ways Than One
When The Mandalorian premiered in 2019, it ended on an image that broke the internet: a wide-eyed green infant blinking up out of a floating…
