Jay Baruchel and Goon director Michael Dowes are getting the band again collectively for a comedy in regards to the Canadian stuntman Ken Carter.
Again in my day, we had daredevils like Evil Knievel and Tremendous Dave Osborne. They’d defy demise whereas entertaining crowds of cheering followers, risking life and limb for applause. I by no means wished to be a daredevil, however I did respect their bravery and risk-taking lifestyle. Jay Baruchel is a daredevil fanatic, too, and he’s reuniting with Goon’s Michael Dowse for The Stunt Driver, an upcoming comedy in regards to the daredevil stuntman Ken Carter.
In response to Deadline, The Stunt Driver revolves round “The Mad Canadian” Carter, who “makes an attempt to execute the boldest maneuver of his profession in the course of the Nineteen Seventies, launching a rocket automobile off a 90-foot-high ramp throughout the St. Lawrence River. The stunt would have him leap from Canada into america, masking greater than a mile.” The movie “follows Carter’s quest to make his seemingly unimaginable dream a actuality, chronicling his preparation for the leap and the absurd challenges he faces alongside the way in which.”
Jay Baruchel and Michael Dowse’s The Stunt Driver is impressed by the Nationwide Movie Board of Canada’s 1981 documentary The Satan at Your Heels. Manufacturing kicks into excessive gear in Montreal within the spring.
“Ken Carter’s story speaks to anybody who has dreamed the unimaginable and been kicked within the tooth making an attempt to attain it. I couldn’t be extra excited to work with my previous good friend Jay. Jay brings the right mixture of comedy, belying nice dramatic rigidity to this complicated showman,” Dowse mentioned about re-teaming with Jay Baruchel for The Stunt Driver.
Jay Baruchel lately performed Carter in Nick Santora’s Fubar, an motion comedy sequence starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a C.I.A. operative on the sting of retirement who discovers a household secret and is known as again into the sphere for one final job. In the meantime, his work is full for Chandler Levack’s Mile Finish Kicks, a romantic comedy a couple of 24-year-old music critic who will get romantically concerned with members of an indie band she decides to publicize, set in opposition to Montreal’s indie music scene in 2011.
Are you accustomed to Ken Carter’s stunt work? You may watch footage from his last stunt on YouTube, however I need to warn you, it’s disturbing. I’m certain Dowse and Baruchel have large plans for The Stunt Driver, and we’re curious to see how the mission comes collectively.