Making crazy action movies with crazy stunts has been dangerous these days. A stuntman getting killed in a dangerous Batmobile wreck in “The Dark Knight” is just the beggining. The James Bond “Quantum of Solace” gets even better.

The film crew of 007 “Quantum of Solace” were filming a high speed car chase scene in Italy. That was real, it is no CGI or staged crap baloney, this is 100% real car chasing, using real cars and all. It was reported that director of the film Marc Forster and leading star Daniel Craig both were NOT at the scene.

At least a few stunt men were injured, and as you saw on reports, one car went off the road and the car actually went into the lake. An experience stunt driver is in critical condition, “gravely” injured means this could be life threatening.

The Associated Press reports:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hiOpB5EMIqCLOesy8cYBOLX6MPLAD908AF8O0

I find it amazing that these film makers are risking their lives desperately trying to make a scene exactly it is in the script no matter how dangerous the scene is.

In the past, action movies used to be made in CGI, in studio and on the stage, etc. Today is not like that anymore. Action movies these days have been doing the real thing to make it realistic.

Sly Stallone admitted in a few articles in the past that he was injured quite a bit when he was filming the new “Rambo”, most everything was done for real in “Rambo”, the only fake thing in “Rambo” was when Rambo was rolling down the hill with the explosion coming behind him, that was the only thing done in CGI, but the rest of the movie was real.

Kev