The last movie of David Leitch (bullet train) tells the story of Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) a successful film stuntman who suffers an accident on set. After two years of depression, away from the world, an opportunity knocks on his door.
Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt) his ex-girlfriend, is going to direct his first movie and needs a stunt double for his star, Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) a cocky Hollywood actor. When Colt arrives at the shoot, Jody doesn’t seem thrilled to see him and, if that weren’t enough, will have to solve a disappearance to save his movie, his job and the girl of his dreams.
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Despite Gail (Hannah Waddingham) had hired Colt to investigate the disappearance of Tom Ryder, The specialist discovers that everything had been a hoax. Ryder had committed a murder days before his arrival and Gail, his producer, was helping him cover up the crime. With the help of Jody and the rest of the film crew, Colt manages to record Ryder’s confession in the middle of an impossible scene, surrounded by explosions, helicopters and fights between stuntmen and aggressive thugs. Colt and Jody are in love again and Metastormthe movie they were shooting, is a success.
After the truth is exposed, Ryder and Gail are surrounded by the police. Among the agents, we can see two faces that may sound familiar to some viewers. Is about Lee Majors and Heather Thomas, protagonists of The Fall Guy, the 1981 series on which the film is based. Both played, decades ago, the original Colt Seavers and Jody Moreno and the film pays a small tribute to them by the end.
Postcredits for ‘The Specialist’ and possible sequel
When the movie ends, Don’t run out of the room! If you stay, you can see a few surprises. For example, Jason Momoa’s cameo, who plays himself as a replacement for the fictional Tom Ryder. You will also be able to see outtakes and many behind-the-scenes scenes. David Leitch, the director, worked for years as a film specialist. He was Brad Pitt’s stunt double. for much of his career. With this movie, wants to place his profession in the place it deserves and the end is a beautiful love letter to all his professional colleagues. In one of these post-credits clips you can see a record that the film has made: it contains the scene with the highest number of spins ever made in a film, eight and a half laps!
About the sequel, this is what Kelly McCormick producer, recently confessed to the magazine Variety: “There could be one. If the public wants it, we are willing. Everyone had a great time. Ryan and Emily want to come back, we would love to come back. We want to do five of these. It was one of the best movie experiences we’ve ever had. Let’s do it.” So if box office success follows, who knows! We could have a franchise dedicated to the adventures of Colt and Jody.
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