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BCA22 April 2019 _ PopularMechanics.comHow They Pulled Off
the Giant Fıght in Hellboy
/ BY JACQUELINE DETWILER /FIRST THINGS FIRST: You’re not having a comic-book movie in 2019 without the help of computer-aided visual
effects, especially not one in which a government-sponsored demon spars with three 22-foot-tall giants. Fortunately,
that doesn’t mean stunt performers, riggers, and coordinators are out of work. For the new Lionsgate reboot of
Hellboy, out April 12, key stunt rigger François Coetzer and his company, Blackrat Stunts, thought it might be fun to
create a movable rig that actor David Harbour and stunt double Ivailo Dimitrov (both playing Hellboy) could interact
with instead of trying to air-fight an invisible giant in front of a blue screen. “Believe it or not, it started out as a little
stunt-rigging hobby project,” Coetzer says. By the end, they’d built a 22-foot interactive apparatus that could be
puppeteered by six stunt riggers, and the visual-effects team called to say, Hey, thanks for making our job easier.