In the first part of the book saga about the sorcerer’s apprentice, people toast “to Harry Potter, the boy who lived”. A documentary about a stuntman who stood in for Potter’s film actor Daniel Radcliffe in a dangerous scene and ended up in a wheelchair has the same name. The first trailer presents the novelty, which Radcliffe produced.
The film David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived will be shown by the Czech HBO on Thursday, November 30. | Video: HBO
How writes server Variety.com, the movie is called David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived. His representative, now forty-one-year-old British David Holmes, represented Radcliffe in dangerous scenes from the first part of the saga from 2001 to the last one, Deathly Hallows.
It was during their filming in January 2009 that the then 25-year-old Holmes seriously injured his spine, became paralyzed and ended up in a wheelchair. The film explains his relationship with Radcliffe and what followed.
Despite the injury, Holmes took up car racing. He started a company with two friends who were also paralyzed and started with Radcliffe broadcast the Cunning Stunts podcast, in which other stuntmen talk and point out the dangers associated with this profession.
“He was like a cooler older brother to me,” Radcliffe says of him in the film. “He always did the most dangerous things. It was unfair that they let him go through this one,” he adds, adding that the aim of the documentary is not to talk about Holmes’ life as a tragedy. The half-hour documentary directed by Dan Hartley will be broadcast by the Czech HBO on Thursday, November 30, and will also be shown in its Max video library.
