Jay Baruchel and Goon director Michael Dowes are getting the band again collectively for a comedy concerning 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 concerning the daredevil stuntman Ken Carter.
In response to Deadline, The Stunt Driver revolves round “The Mad Canadian” Carter, who “attempts to execute the boldest maneuver of his career during the 1970s, launching a rocket car off a 90-foot-high ramp across the St. Lawrence River. The stunt would have him jump from Canada into the United States, covering more than a mile.” The movie “follows Carter’s quest to make his seemingly impossible dream a reality, chronicling his preparation for the jump and the absurd challenges he faces along the way.”
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 anyone who has dreamed the impossible and been kicked in the teeth trying to achieve it. I couldn’t be more excited to work with my old friend Jay. Jay brings the perfect combination of comedy, belying great dramatic tension to this complex showman,” Dowse stated about re-teaming with Jay Baruchel for The Stunt Driver.
Jay Baruchel just 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 sector for one final job. In the meantime, his work is full for Chandler Levack’s Mile Finish Kicks, a romantic comedy a few 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 acquainted with Ken Carter’s stunt work? You possibly can watch footage from his ultimate stunt on YouTube, however I need to warn you, it’s disturbing. I’m positive Dowse and Baruchel have huge plans for The Stunt Driver, and we’re curious to see how the venture comes collectively.
