On display screen, Gosling’s Colt Seavers is a proud veteran of a Miami Vice stunt present. This turned a part of the character’s historical past when Gosling and his stylist Mark Avery got here throughout a sick Miami Vice bomber jacket. And we all know how good Ryan Gosling looks in a bomber jacket. “The jacket form of begat that backstory,” says Kelly McCormick, Leitch’s spouse {and professional} associate, who produced The Fall Man.
The precise Miami Vice stunt present—formally often known as the Miami Vice Motion Spectacular—opened at Common Studios Hollywood in June of 1987, between Miami Vice‘s third and fourth seasons, and ran till 1995, when it was changed by Waterworld. So, technically, assuming he is the identical age as Gosling, Colt Seavers would most likely have been too younger to truly carry out in it, despite the fact that Seavers declares on display screen that he did “three exhibits a day, six days per week, for 3 years.”
Leitch by no means noticed the actual life Miami Vice stunt present in individual, however he has friends who had been in it. “They had been the Florida guys, they had been the water guys, as a result of they did the Miami Vice stay present,” he says.
The instruments the fictional character supposedly discovered on the job in the end turn out to be useful when Colt is kidnapped by goons working for film star Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). Tom has by accident murdered one other stunt performer and is planning on framing Colt for the killing. However Colt manages to faux his personal demise in Sydney Harbor by piloting a speedboat by an explosion together with his palms tied behind his again—a trick he supposedly discovered within the Miami Vice present.
Leitch explains he and McCormick prefer to preserve the method of capturing “natural,” to allow them to give you set items as they’re impressed to take action. The reference to the stunt present solved a story drawback that Leitch had. “We did not understand how he was going to flee the boat or the dock, however we knew he needed to,” McCormick says. “Then it was like, Oh, if he did that and we made it a ship and it is Miami Vice— it began coming collectively.”
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