{"id":1649,"date":"2015-01-08T14:31:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T22:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2015-01-06T15:10:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T23:10:16","slug":"working-with-the-istanbul-stunt-team-for-skyfall-on-a-new-turkish-comedy-bana-masal-anlatma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/working-with-the-istanbul-stunt-team-for-skyfall-on-a-new-turkish-comedy-bana-masal-anlatma\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with the Istanbul Stunt Team for Skyfall on a New Turkish Comedy, Bana Masal Anlatma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trailer for Turkish movie Bana Masal Anlatma is out! <em>(I&#8217;m at 1:05 in the trailer.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iLLDaM8DfM8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1650\" src=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey6.jpg\" alt=\"IstanbulTurkey6\" width=\"977\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey6.jpg 977w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey6-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey6-700x563.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 977px) 100vw, 977px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Working with the Jackie Chan Stunt Team on Dragon Blade (plus John Cusack and Benny The Jet Urquidez)\" href=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/working-with-the-jackie-chan-stunt-team-on-dragon-blade-plus-john-cusack-and-benny-the-jet-urquidez\/\" target=\"_blank\">While\u00a0working on <strong>Dragon Blade<\/strong><\/a>, I had the great pleasure to meet a good friend, Fatih who happened to have a stunt team in Istanbul, Turkey.\u00a0<strong>Be\u015fikta\u015f K\u00fclt\u00fcr Merkezi<\/strong>, <strong>BKM<\/strong> for short, was shooting a new comedy in Istanbul called\u00a0<strong>Bana Masal Anlatma<\/strong>. They needed a few Asian guys that could fight and play as monks in the movie.<a href=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1651\" src=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey10.jpg\" alt=\"IstanbulTurkey10\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey10.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey10-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey10-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey10-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From what I was told in Turkey, BKM is one of the largest studios in Turkey. (<a title=\"BKM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bkmonline.net\/en\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bkmonline.net\/en<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0flew in from Hong Kong on what would be a 19+ hour trip. There were some layovers and it was a longer journey there than expected.. but luckily I can sleep anywhere. When we arrived we were placed in a nice hotel in <strong>Taksim<\/strong>. The majority of this trip was rehearsals, fittings, stunt work, and filming, but I did have a few hours to check out the city. My travel adventures I&#8217;ve put in a separate post. <a title=\"The Top 6 Things to Do in Istanbul Turkey with Only 48 Hours\" href=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/the-top-6-things-to-do-in-istanbul-turkey-with-only-48-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top 6 things To Do in Istanbul Turkey.<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1652\" src=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey14.jpg\" alt=\"IstanbulTurkey14\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey14.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey14-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey14-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey14-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After we got all settled in, we immediately got to rehearsing. I had the great pleasure of working with <strong>Yunus,<\/strong> the stunt coordinator and the rest of his team, who had also worked stunts on <strong>Skyfall<\/strong> for the <strong>Istanbul<\/strong> portion. There were a few wire gags, so we got me into the harness and did a few run-throughs of each set up until we were happy with the action.<a href=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1653\" src=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey17.jpg\" alt=\"IstanbulTurkey17\" width=\"1224\" height=\"1632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey17.jpg 1224w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey17-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey17-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey17-700x933.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we tested everything out in the wardrobe.<\/p>\n<p>On the shoot days I had a great time with everyone. I was mainly there for stunts, but the director gave me a few lines in Turkish as well which was fun because it was first time learning Turkish! There should be some fun scenes in there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey50.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1655\" src=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey64.jpg\" alt=\"IstanbulTurkey64\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey64.jpg 480w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey64-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1654\" src=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey50.jpg\" alt=\"IstanbulTurkey50\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey50.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey50-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey50-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey50-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey65.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1656\" src=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey65.jpg\" alt=\"IstanbulTurkey65\" width=\"542\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey65.jpg 542w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey65-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey65-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey65-432x432.jpg 432w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey65-268x268.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On our last day,\u00a0immediately after a full day of shooting it was time to hop\u00a0on to a 15+ hour flight back. Bolkan, one of the PAs that showed us around was really cool. He picked us up and dropped us off at the airport and he was a great host showing us around the city. Hope to find myself in Istanbul again sometime.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey69.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1657\" src=\"http:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey69.jpg\" alt=\"IstanbulTurkey69\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey69.jpg 640w, https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey69-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trailer for Turkish movie Bana Masal Anlatma is out! (I&#8217;m at 1:05 in the trailer.) While\u00a0working on Dragon Blade, I had the great pleasure to meet a good friend, Fatih who happened to have a stunt team in Istanbul, Turkey.\u00a0Be\u015fikta\u015f K\u00fclt\u00fcr Merkezi, BKM for short, was shooting a new comedy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,3,13],"tags":[46,992,993,925,986,985,928,141,988,905,990,991,896,989,384,994,1178,904,983,984,445,987],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-choreography","category-entertainment","category-video","tag-action","tag-action-comedy","tag-action-design","tag-bana-masal-anlatma","tag-besiktas-kultur-merkezi","tag-bkm","tag-bolkan","tag-comedy","tag-fatih","tag-istanbul","tag-istanbul-turkey","tag-movie-making","tag-movies","tag-skyfall","tag-stunts","tag-taksim","tag-travel","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-comedy","tag-turkish-movie","tag-wire-work","tag-yunus","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IstanbulTurkey14.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eMwQ-qB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}