Watch a Radical Action Sequence From AQUAMAN That Was Filmed in a Single Take
A new clip from DC’s Aquaman has been released and it might be one of the most impressive that we’ve seen yet!
The clip features and action-packed fight sequence involving Nicole Kidman‘s Queen Atlanna being attacked by an Atlantean military force. The coolest thing about this scene is that it was shot in one take! As you’ll see the outcome is pretty damn awesome.
I haven’t seen the movie myself yet, but like you, I’ve been hearing so much great stuff about it! It sounds like this DC movie will actually live up to the hype! I certainly love the action that I’m seeing here in this clip of Kidman kicking some major ass!
Director James Wan also talked about this scene in an interview with /Film, and I included that for you below the clip to read if you want:
When talking about pulling this shot off, Wan explained:
“[Kidman] did it, with some help. But you talked about one shot before. That is one shot. Like if I show you guys the behind the scene of that, it is messy as heck. But it literally is we built the set with the ceiling removed. And it literally was a spider-cam that just zip around the whole room just like following the action. Following Atlanna as she just takes a person out, takes another person out. And obviously, we use visual effects to help clean a lot of things up and all that. But yeah, we did a lot of that in camera, practical stunt.”
This is how the rest of the conversation about the scene went down:
As one actual take?
It was yeah, it was one actual take, yes.
How many takes did it take to…?
I think I did over 30 takes. And it had to be split over two days, ’cause like on the first day we did it like my poor, amazing stunt actors got so tired ’cause we were doing like take after take. And it’s just like hard to keep that energy up, right? And so they were like, “Oh, we weren’t quite there yet.” Just missing out. There’ll be moments where we would get everything, and the last moment, it’d be like “Aw, just way off it.” Shit. Try it again. And so yeah, so we would come back a few days later, ’cause we have to rebuild the set back up. ‘Cause after a whole day of photography we beat the crap out of the set, so they had to, art department had to come in, dress it back up and then we did it again. Yeah.
Did you use an earlier take or a later take?
I can’t remember now. ‘Cause it’s usually, I did a similar thing in Death Sentence where I had like this one sort of parking garage shot that we shot like a whole bunch, like 15 takes and I went back and used like take three.
Aquaman hits theaters on December 21, 2018. You can watch the One Minute Review of the film here.