Following the tragic capturing that occurred on the set of the film Rust that led to the loss of life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, John Wick director Chad Stahleski has stated there isn’t a cause to have a dwell gun on a set. Stahelski, a stunt veteran who now directs, advised The Hollywood Reporter that the rationale dwell firearms are nonetheless used on units is as a result of it prices an excessive amount of to make use of CG results. Not solely that, however too many individuals have an excessive amount of cash invested in the usage of actual weapons on set.
“My feeling is that there’s no reason to have a live firearm on set. We can create cities and spaceships and Godzilla and all these things. We have the technology to do the same with firearms. But, for the last 100 years, Hollywood’s been using real firearms. And for prop houses, armorers or supply houses to switch over, it would make their entire stock of real firearms useless,” he stated. “It comes down to the fact that it would cost certain people a great deal of money to switch over. No one wants to say that, but that’s the real reason. You don’t need firearms. The alternative is just going to cost you more money.”
Stahelski was after all not on the Rust set when the tragedy occurred, however he has seen on-set accidents first-hand, they usually have all the time been on account of human error, he stated.however
“It’s never mechanical,” Stahelski stated.
The director went on to say that years in the past, firearms on set fired blanks–or a bullet with out the projectile. But a clean nonetheless creates a concussive power that “would be enough to shatter your skull,” Stahelski stated, so actors in these scenes don’t stand shut to at least one one other.
“Accidents like that did happen and people died because of it. But in the past 10 years, they’ve come out with electronic guns, plug guns where it is impossible for anything to come out of the barrel and total CG. That’s the way we do it. That technology is out there for everybody,” Stahelski stated.
Stahelski’s subsequent movie is John Wick: Chapter 4, which releases on March 24. He’s additionally hooked up to direct the film primarily based on the PlayStation recreation Ghost of Tsushima.
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