One Of The Fall Guy’s Incredible Car Stunts Broke A Hollywood Record [SXSW 2024]

Leitch’s track record behind the camera is, admittedly, a little wobbly (some schmucks would even have the gall to call his “Hobbs & Shaw” spinoff the worst “Fast & Furious” movie, if you can believe it), which is why it comes as a relief to hear so many people singing the praises of his latest film. And if their bit at the Oscars — which, its confusing lack of synergy aside, was pretty funny — left you wanting to see more of Gosling and Blunt busting each others’ chops, then you’ll be glad to hear “The Fall Guy” apparently delivers on that front. To quote /Film’s Jacob Hall in his review, the duo’s “sparkling chemistry is the explosive fuel that powers one of the best studio blockbusters in recent years, an engine carefully constructed to please the audience at each and 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 over without the use of a ramp (as was pioneered by the late stunt legend Hal Needham for the 1974 John Wayne flick “McQ”). It turns out that stunt driver Logan Holladay managed to pull off this daredevil car flip eight-and-a-half times without a CGI assist, breaking the previous record of seven set 18 years ago by stuntman Adam Kirley in “Casino Royale” in the scene where Daniel Craig’s 007 sends his Aston Martin barrel-rolling to a halt to avoid running over a tied-up Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). Not that Gosling’s trying to take any credit for it. “Anytime [my character] got hit by a car, set on fire, did anything cool or parkour-y, that was [Holladay],” he assured the SXSW crowd.