Stuntnuts at AFM: Ronaldo's First Film, Damon Cameo — SkimNews
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- Stuntnuts will get its first market screening at the AFM, where it is being sold by Patrick Wachsberger's Legendary sales label 193.
- Cristiano Ronaldo earns his first movie producing credit on Stuntnuts, the first film to emerge from his UR MARV joint venture with Matthew Vaughn; the article notes he may have ended his international football career 'yesterday' with multiple screen projects in the works.
- Matt Damon was added as a new cameo, joining Chris Hemsworth and Sam Rockwell, who play hilariously heightened versions of themselves as stunt performers taking blockbuster jobs to save their community gym.
- Damien Walters directs, having won an Actor Award for stunt work on Skyfall and worked on Jurassic World: Dominion, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the Kingsman franchise and 47 Ronin.
- Bobby Holland Hanton stars alongside real stunt performers Greg Townley (Tom Holland's Spider-Man double), Paul Lowe (Harry Potter, Game of Thrones) and Haruka Oshima (No Time to Die, The Matrix), with Hanton serving as Hemsworth's regular double.
- Greg Townley fell 'the wrong way' from the top of a water tower during production and broke his back in three places, delaying the shoot by months; the injury was then incorporated into the movie as insight into the trials of stunt performers.
- Stuntnuts was first revealed a couple of years ago, when Baz Bamigboye visited the set, and was then positioned as one in a series of Vaughn-produced movies about stuntmen.
Why it matters: At AFM, 193 is selling a package with Hemsworth, Rockwell and a Damon cameo, plus Ronaldo's first producing credit on the first title from the UR MARV joint venture — a new credit line for the former footballer. Townley's three-place back break, which halted filming for months and then entered the script, puts real stunt experience inside the premise.
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