We Could Be Heroes by Philip Ellis EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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PATRICK LAKE GLANCED SIDEWAYS AT HIS STUNT DOUBLE AND THOUGHT,
I’d do me.
OK—maybe that was an inherently weird idea to have about somebody
decked out to look exactly like you. And it was surely not the kind of thing
that Captain Kismet, everybody’s favorite superhero, said to himself
between takes. But it had been a long day.
“The trick to falling,” the stuntman said, “is knowing how to land.”
Corey’s words, however sage, were not for Patrick’s benefit: The two of
them were filming behind-the-scenes content, taking turns to demonstrate
the simpler stunts they had planned for Kismet 2. Footage of the pair in their
matching costumes would then be cut into polished thirty-second videos
and used to advertise the movie on social media later in the year, a perfectly
curated glimpse behind the curtain. It was the kind of thing Patrick could
usually do in his sleep. Except all he could really think about was, well…
sleep. They were supposed to wrap on the movie a week ago, yet new script
pages kept showing up outside his hotel room door like bad omens, and at
this rate Patrick felt as though he would die in this grim little city.
“Birmingham?” he’d asked his manager, Simone, when she told him
where reshoots would take place. “Like, Alabama?”
“No, thank god,” she’d replied. “It’s in England. Very cheap to film
there, apparently.”
“Cheap,” it turned out, was the operative word. The famous auteur the
studio had hired to direct the second installment of the newly rebooted
Kismet franchise had burned through much of the movie’s budget before
half the film was even in the can, leading to his rapid firing and replacement
by Lucas Grant, whose résumé largely consisted of TV commercials and a
Pixar short. Grant was tasked with righting the ship and getting it to port
without bankrupting the studio, which meant relocating production to an old
factory town where accommodating the enormous cast and crew wouldn’t
cost an extra couple million dollars.
Corey executed a perfect backflip, and Patrick applauded, mugging for
the camera. “Nicely done,” he said, truthfully. With his earnest eyes and
back-clapping Aussie cheer, Corey was impossible to dislike, even if
Patrick was occasionally thrown by their uncanny resemblance. Same sandy
hair, same muscular build, even something of a likeness in the jaw. It took
some getting used to. Patrick’s stand-in for the first movie had been a
slightly terrifying former MMA fighter in a blond wig.
“You got what you need?” Patrick asked the videographer, who gave
him a thumbs-up. “Great. Nice work, Corey. Thanks, everyone!” He began
walking out of the soundstage warehouse, back to his trailer. A shower and
then a nap, he thought. A nap would fix everything.
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