David Belle
Parkour has become a popular element in action sequences, with film directors hiring parkour practitioners as stunt performers. The first director to do so was Luc Besson, for the film "Taxi 2" in 1998, followed by "Yamakasi" in 2001 featuring members of the original Yamakasi group, and its sequel "Les fils du vent" in 2004. Also in 2004, Besson wrote "District 13", another feature film involving advanced parkour chase sequences, starring David Belle and Cyril Raffaelli, followed by the sequel "" in 2009 and remade in English as "Brick Mansions" in 2014.