HARDCORE HENRY Producers Announce WE KILL DEATH, a Film About Crazy High-Climbing Daredevils
If you've seen videos from Oleg Cricket, Mustang Wanted, or Vitaliy Raskalov and Vadim Makhorov, you know the kind of death-defying stunts they pull on a regular basis. If you haven't, allow me to introduce you. Here's Oleg on a 43-story hotel tower in Dubai:
Here's Vitaliy and Vadim breaking into Shanghai Tower, the second tallest building in the world, and climbing all the way to the freaking top:
And Mustang may be the craziest of them all, because he often ascends to tremendous heights and then just hangs off the edge with his bare hands:
I'm legitimately shocked that these guys haven't died yet trying this stuff, but it looks like they're still alive and kicking, and they're also going to become movie stars. I received a press release this morning saying that Alex A. Ginzburg, Tony Lee, and Inga Vainshtein Smith — the producers of Hardcore Henry — will make a movie called We Kill Death that features all four of these high-climbing wackos.
“These men are incredible athletes,” says Ginzburg. “They have more strength in their fingers than most people have in their entire bodies.” Always looking to take their exploits to the next level, Ginzburg assures that audiences will not be disappointed.
The potential for cinematic impact for a film like We Kill Death is obvious, Ginzburg explains. “People report intense physical and emotional reactions just from watching these stunts on phones and computers. We believe that this film will deliver the single most visceral big-screen cinematic experience unlike any other.”
No kidding. I'm one of those people who totally freaked out watching these videos, swearing at the screen and wiping sweat from my palms. Seeing this play out on the big screen would make Robert Zemeckis's The Walk look like child's play.
The producers have secured Eddie Perez (Fast 8, Deadpool, Jack Reacher, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier) as the stunt coordinator, and they're teasing a "live aerial stunt unlike any other in the history of the [Toronto International Film] Festival" on September 9, 2016. I was already wishing I could go to that festival (it's one of the best in the world), but this REALLY makes me want to be there to see whatever insanity they have planned in person.
No word yet on when the movie will come out, but watching those videos, you can clearly imagine how bonkers it will end up being.