Who is the best car chase driver?
The master of the car chase and car stunt is Remy Julienne. He has done stunt work for over a thousand films, including lots of the Bond movies, and has his own production facility where his team custom builds their own special stunt cars. His team did all the stunt driving in The Italian Job – the roof jump was incredibly dangerous, but Julienne worked it out meticulously and it went without a hitch on the first take. Before the stunt, all the extras said goodbye to him, because they thought he would be killed. (The Italian Job DVD has an excellent documentary about the final chase sequence, and is worth a look.) He also works with Jackie “I’m mad, me” Chan quite a lot. How do they film car chases? Very boringly. It’s not done in one continuous series of shots. Car chases take days, weeks, sometimes months to film. Streets are closed off – the other cars you see are all trained stunt drivers. All the various elements are shot separately, slowly, in little bits and pieces, and rarely a
