Thursday, February 25, 2010
Hollywood action in Dusseldorf
The motorway to Düsseldorf is the bottomless pit. An explosion tore the road over, adults and children rushing for their lives, despair Included. Cars fly through the air - and then there still a deadly time bomb ticking away ...
Around 100,000 euro cost of this action Düsseldorf Big Bang, with the new season of "Alarm for Cobra 11" (20.15 clock, RTL) will attend the launch. It is the heaviest use of the Commissioners Gerkhan (Erdogan Atalay) and Knight (Gedeon Burkhard). Because with the attack on the gas pipeline to the capital held to ransom: € 20 million in diamonds - or Dusseldorf will be wiped out.
Could such things happen in real life? "No," said Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf Joachim Erwin. "We're not blackmailed. And if someone would come - we had the right contingency plan. "
And as always on TV - we can not always believe what you see. This points to the location plan: In Dusseldorf, a large part of the action scenes emerged, including The dramatic encounter on the TV tower.
But the Diet "true" only from the outside, the operations center was in Cologne, then the driveway is the entrance to the Cologne Arena. The trip would fly at the end of a bus into the air, took place in Bonn, where the sewage and water works created scenes.
Finally, Krefeld gave her the backdrop for some street scenes. Has for the other explosions and car chases "Action Concept" an "own" Highway near Düren: a 2.3-km-long replica, including side stripes, delay and acceleration lane.
"It's good that we have the experience and technical requirements," says "Action Concept" chief Hermann Joha (48) on its 3-million-euro film. "In Hollywood, the film would have cost twice as much."
The new top-notch production to him is also an attempt to compete against the successful U.S. series, "We can anstinken against CSI & Co.," he says, "have a better story, better actors and produce better than Hollywood."
A "Making of" Thursday's) in "The Stuntmen - in operation for Cobra 11" (19.30 clock, n-tv.
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