Chris Hemsworth To Star In Action Movie Directed By Captain America Stunt Double
Chris Evans has embodied Captain America on screen for the past seven years, but another person has also worn that iconic suit during some of Cap’s more harrowing adventures:Sam Hargrave, a stunt performer who has gone on to be the stunt coordinator for movies likeSuicide SquadandAvengers: Infinity War.
Hargrave is set to make his feature directorial debut with an action thriller calledDhaka, and the whole thing is shaping up to be anAvengersreunion. Hargrave has signedChris Hemsworth(Thor: Ragnarok) to star, and the film is being written and produced byInfinity WardirectorsAnthonyandJoe Russo. Read .
The Hollywood Reportersays the Russos will produceDhakavia their new production company/mini-studio AGBO. The brothers also wrote the screenplay, which tells the story of “a weary mercenary named Rake (Hemsworth) who is hired to save the son of a businessman.” That’s admittedly a pretty bland plot synopsis, but the talent involved in this film leads me to hope that the final product will be far more memorable.
Here’s a video of Hargrave (in a full, majestic beard that makes him look exactly like Hugh Jackman inThe Fountain) working on the set ofAvengers: Infinity War:
Hargrave has been doing stunt work since 2005, performing on films likeWarriorandThe Avengersand moving up to stunt coordinator and/or fight choreographer on movies likeThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire,The Hunger Games: Mockingjay(Parts 1 and 2),Wolf Warrior 2, and more. He’s written and directed several short films, and served as the second unit director on big Hollywood projects likeThe Accountant,Atomic Blonde, andDeadpool 2, just to name a few.
Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh, a country in South Asia that shares a border with India and Myanmar. Filming for this movie is slated to unfold in India and Indonesia, so I assume the action of the story may primarily take place in the capital city. Shooting reportedly begins this November and is set to last until March of 2019.
Hemsworth will next be seen in this fall’sBad Times at the El Royale, he reprises his role as Thor in next year’sAvengers 4, and he’s currently shooting a newMen in Blackmovie alongside hisThor: Ragnarokco-star Tessa Thompson. Here’s hoping he’ll be able to fit in a feature version of thatDundee: The Son of a Legend Returns HomeSuper Bowl commercial at some point in his busy schedule.
