Stuntman Reveals the "Amazing Action" of The Losers
Posted 12.29.09 by Ryan
Stunt Coordinator Garrett Warren has worked on an impressive resume of high-profile movies, such as Avatar and Iron Man 2, but he told the LA Times that it's the comic book adaptation of The Losers that has a "special place" in his heart, especially after helping actress Zoe Saldana land the role of Aisha, the loose cannon amongst a group of CIA black ops agents.
Zoe Saldana was the one who got me on that movie. We were shooting Avatar, at the time and she came to me saying there was a movie she wanted to be in called The Losers. The people weren't sure whether or not she could handle action. She felt so heartbroken because they weren't able to see the stuff she was doing on Avatar. It was all
top secret. She was such an action machine, but nobody knew it yet. I suggested we take a weekend to put together a video to help get her the job. I helped shoot this promotional video for her to show that she could do action. We had her shooting guns, wielding swords, knife work.... It was unbelievable. She was unreal. She got the part. And then she suggested they use me as their stunt coordinator. I actually was on our re-shoots of Avatar when I got the call from Sylvain White, the director for The Losers. He wanted it to be not only like the comic book but somewhat more visceral. It's an amazingly real yet superbly comical look at these black ops special agents. And I loved the dichotomy. He was thinking the Bourne films and 24, and yet he wanted to have comedy involved.
While Warren often works on motion-capture movies like Avatar or the upcoming The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, he admits there are no computer-generated effects in the "amazing action" of The Losers.
It's all live action, 100%. There is some amazing action in that movie. You will be blown away. People will think, "Wow, that had to be CG." No. Nothing was CG. We did everything. For real. I dropped actors and actresses on wires. I threw people through doors and windows. And Zoe ... she's a wrecking machine. I can't tell you how much fun it was to work on that movie.
Next Showing: The Losers opens April 9, 2010