Filming Crank 2

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Last year we told you that Crank directors Neveldine/Taylor had decided to film Crank 2: High Voltage entirely using consumer grade video cameras, allowing them to put the cameras in places filmmakers normally aren’t able to. They also had plans to shoot some sequences using a “moving bullet time camera rig” composed of 8 small video cameras attached to a curved light weight piece of speed rail.

Collider has edited together some of the studio-released B-roll footage, which you can watch for yourself after the jump, showing the madmen at work, strapping little consumer grade cameras to remote control cars and using the custom built “moving bullet time camera rig”. I can’t even imagine what the end result will look like.

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  • I look forward to seeing all of their ideas. This is exactly the type of forward thinking that had Orson Wells cut a hole in the set floor in Citizen Kane.
  • freemachine
    ...or the type of forward thinking that had Scorsese cut a path in the ceiling for a dolly cam shot at the end of Taxi Driver.
  • ToTheChase
    That's great footage, Collider--should inspire a lot of people on the edge of making something to jump in!
  • This makes me want to watch this movie just to see what it's going to look like. I haven't really got interested in this movie before but I guess I could have a look at it one day.
  • marz
    i heard about that moving bullet time when they first started working on the film and iv'e been excited to see it ever sense.that alone sold me.
  • Wow, these are some really amazing, and amazingly crazy ideas.

    Rollerblading camera men?!?! RC camera cars?!?

    This movie will NOT be for people who get motion sickness!!! It'll make a 'Bourne' movie look like a Merchant-Ivory production.
  • can't wait.
  • kapitan
    it is a good a pretty funny idea! but surely this is one of the only films it could ever work on. high energy, erratic and totally no coherence, just like the film! but damn am i looking forward to it!
  • Roller Blades are Back.... This looks pretty cool how they do it.
  • holy freakin' fuck... this shit is genius
  • pretty ridiculous. In a great way. I wanna see the movie for sure, just to see how those shots come out!
  • Agree with everyone here. The originality in the filming process is kind of inspiring.

    I could just see the wanted ad for that movie..."Need a professional roller blader to operate cameras for Lionsgate project!"
  • Wow, I truly want to see this now. it's damn inspiring.
  • I want that job
  • Steve
    I can't wait to see this. Just the sheer originality of the camera angles and styles will definitely have audiences and movie buffs saying "That's cool."
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