If you weren’t in attendance at last weekend’s Comic-Con in Cape Town, you’re able to still get a taste of the action thanks to the folks behindBoy Kills World. Taking convention attendees by surprise,the stunt performersflexed theirincredible skillswhile onlookers dropped their jaws and gawked. Setting up the bit, two of the folks involved with the routine, dressed in cosplay, picked a staged fight with one another. Things quickly got heated and one of the dueling parties was tossed over the balcony onto the floor below. Hitting the ground with a thud, the man got up only to get kicked backward into aBoy Kills Worldposter. By this point, most of the folks standing around caught onto the flash mob-esque situation just in time for things to really heat up with a slew of other performers joining the fistfight. Flips are landed, enemies are tossed, and coffee is sat on the sidelines in this surprise performance that you have to see to believe.
Bill Skarsgård takes center ringinBoy Kills Worldas a man whose childhood — and life — was ruined after a group of criminals murdered his entire family. Traumatized by the emotionally devastating and crippling event,the boy becomes both deaf and mutewith only an inner voice narrating his journey. Voiced by television’sH. Jon Benjamin(Bob’s Burgers,Archer), the inspiration for his inner voice comes from a video game that he loved playing as a child. As he grows older, the young man becomes a master in the ways of martial arts and sets out on a vengeance-driven warpath to slaughter the people responsible for killing his family.
Filling out the castforBoy Kills WorldareJessica Rothe(Happy Death Day),Brett Gelman(Stranger Things),Andrew Koji(Warrior),Famke Janssen(Taken),Sharlto Copley(Elysium),Isaiah Mustafa(It Chapter Two), andYayan Ruhian(Star Wars: The Force Awakens). Crashing into cinemas on April 26,Boy Kills World’s bark may have been more than its bite as itfailed to deliver the box office punchthat the studio was hoping for.Reviews for the movie have also been mixedwith Collider’sNate Richardstamping the film with three out of ten stars.
2024: The Year Of The Stunt Performer
No matter how you feel aboutBoy Kills World, there’s something to be said about the level of talent that can be found in the film’s stunt team. Clips like the one from Cape Town Comic-Con show just how important the work of thesehighly skilled professionals is to make movie magiccome to life. If you’re looking for a way to celebrate the world of stunts on an even greater scale, stuntman-turned-filmmaker,David Leitch, will be doing exactly that in his upcoming film,The Fall Guy— making us dub 2024 the year of the stunt performer.
Check out theBoy Kills Worldclip below and see it in cinemas now.
Boy Kills World
A dystopian fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf person with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.
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