There’s a colossal difference between staging a stunt on location versus in a studio or backlot.
Whether you’re orchestrating a large explosion on a busy city street or dangling your actor off the side of an exceptionally tall building — it’s important to be mindful of the public.
There are plenty of anecdotes about people (unaware a movie is being filmed nearby) earning a frightful surprise when the stunt is finally executed.After all, a simulated explosion probably still sounds and feels like a real one to the neighbors.
But it’s not just blockbuster action movies that might have such a problem confusing or terrifying the public.
Turns out that even off-kilter romantic comedies like “George of the Jungle” can stage the kind of stunts that trigger breaking news segments.
And that’s exactly what happened while filming in San Francisco on the famed Bay Bridge for one of the movie’s more climactic scenes.
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