John Wick director Chad Stahelski: No movie should use real guns on set: JohnWick JohnWick4
What happened on Rust … I wasn’t there, but the accidents that I’ve been around, seen or been part of have always been human error. It’s never mechanical. So, let’s just talk about firearms. Back in the day, when it all started, they came up with blanks. A blank is a bullet without the projectile, but they couldn’t put you and me in the same shot, 5 feet apart, and one of us pull the trigger. The concussive force coming out at the end of the barrel would be enough to shatter your skull.
This is significant, given that Stahelski is now one of the most high-profile directors working in the action movie world today, with theseries being both critically acclaimed and highly successful at the box office. In fact, those who have opposed tighter regulation of guns on movie sets, or the use of solely nonfunctional prop weapons, have often claimed that instituting stricter rules would potentially rob audiences of gun-heavy movies such as. Well, Stahelski says otherwise.
My feeling is that there’s no reason to have a live firearm on set. We can create cities and spaceships and Godzilla and all these things. We have the technology to do the same with firearms. But, for the last 100 years, Hollywood’s been using real firearms. And for prop houses, armorers or supply houses to switch over, it would make their entire stock of real firearms useless. It comes down to the fact that it would cost certain people a great deal of money to switch over.
And at the end of the day, that’s where we are in Hollywood today–it’s still cheaper to use real guns, so the real guns remain. But perhaps more studios will follow Stahelski’s example in the future, in the name of safety.
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