The Fall Guy/Trivia

== Trivia ==
* Ryan Gosling has a fear of heights, but still did the 150-foot fall at the beginning of the movie. 
* With 8.5 car rolls, this movie breaks the Guinness World Record of the most car rolls (a fact which Gail actually mentions in the dialogue). 
* Ryan Gosling had a chance encounter with Steven Spielberg, who told him he loved this movie. Gosling said, "As far as I'm concerned it doesn't matter anymore what happens. Steven Spielberg liked it. That was an all time moment for me. I'm really excited for people to see it. I think it's a really special movie." 
* Ryan Gosling had (at least) four stunt doubles. 
* "Metalstorm" is a real film from 1983, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983). It even shares the same tagline "It's high noon at the edge of the universe." 
* Chris O'Hara received a credit for for the crew position of 'stunt designer,' believed to be the first credit of its kind. The role of Stunt Designer is meant to acknowledge the high-level artistic contribution of the traditional stunt coordinator role, and recognize creative leadership within the stunts industry. 
* This movie had been in development since 2010. Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, Nicolas Cage, Jason Statham, and Dwayne Johnson were all eyed to play Colt Seavers over the years. 
* One of the Post-It notes Tom has up (visible during the shoot out sequence) is a reminder to buy unicorn food. This suggests that he has been recreationally taking the hallucinogen that Colt was drugged with. 
* A version of the song "I'm the Unknown Stuntman", which was the theme tune to the 1980s TV show The Fall Guy (1981) that inspired this film, plays during the end credits, 
* In creating Jody's look, costume designer Sarah Evelyn cited Lauren Hutton, Brooke Shields, Kathryn Bigelow, Patty Jenkins, Greta Gerwig, and Agnès Varda as influences. 
* The film-within-a-film Metalstorm was heavily inspired by the real film Metal Storm by Full Moon Entertainment. The entire concept, costumes and desert setting and car based stunts are right from Charles Band's film. The tagline used for the movie within is the tagline from the 1983 film. 
* Emily Blunt partially based her character on Greta Gerwig, explaining, "With the warmth and the charm, I guess there's a little Greta in there." 
* An inside industry joke, Hannah Waddingham's character the film producer is literally chained to her phone the whole movie, alluding to film producers always being on the phone. 
* Ryan Gosling had previously played a stuntman who uses his training in connection to criminality in Drive (2011). 
* Just before the climactic 250 foot jump, the speedometer on the car can be seen to read "88" which is the speed at which the DeLorean activates its time travel device in Back to the Future (1985). 
* The famous "Wilhelm scream" (a sound used in many films during a stunt fall) can be heard during a fall in a fight scene. 
* As noted on camera in the scene where Colt first borrows an American-spec left-hand-drive pickup, the vehicles used in the Sydney-based shoot are there for product-placement purposes. Colt drives a GMC pickup, but Jody is shown riding in a GM-produced Hummer EV during the "Metalstorm" filming sequences. GM did, in fact, purchase product-placement rights for the film itself. 
* David Leitch made the choice to direct this movie instead of Will Smith's Fast and Loose the week before Smith slapped Chris Rock at The Oscars (2022). 
* Cole is asked whether there is an Oscar for stunts in movies, which he denies. This is a real frustration among stunt performers, given that almost every other (technical) category has its own award at the Oscars, and the Emmys and SAG Awards do, in fact, give out awards for this. Director David Leitch, a former stunt man himself, said that he made The Fall Guy as a "love letter" to the stunt community, giving them the recognition they deserve. Many filmmakers, including Leitch, have been pushing for years to have an Oscar for Best Stunts, but the Academy's motivations for not doing so is that the awards ceremony is already quite long, and that a best Stunts Oscar might prompt stunt teams to go to more extreme and unsafe lengths just to win the award. 
* The crew on the movie set wear shirts with company logos, including 87 North, the production company founded by David Leitch and Kelly McCormick, producers of this film. 
* The film cast includes three Oscar nominees: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt and Stephanie Hsu. 
* Colt mentions his coat comes from his first gig on "Miami Vice (1984)". This seems like a mistake, as that would put him in his 60s. He later acknowledges that he means the live stunt-show based on the show, performed years later on the Universal Studios tour. 
* The previous year, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt both were part of the Barbenheimer phenomenon, appearing in Barbie (2023) and Oppenheimer (2023)respectively. Both actors played the primary love interest for the titular characters, which they acknowledged while presenting together at The Oscars (2024). 
* The movie is based loosely on The Fall Guy (1981). In it, Lee Majors played Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who also moonlights as a bounty hunter when there is little movie work. Majors himself and the show's famous vehicle, the 1981 GMC K-2500 Wideside, appear in the film, as well as his co-star Heather Thomas, who played Jody Banks in the series. 
* During a fight scenes in Tom Ryder's Sydney apartment, Colt Seavers pushes away his friend Dan, when someone shoot the cellphone. The sound effect is the same as in The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), also starring Lee Majors. 
* Alma asks for a producer credit in exchange for giving Tom's phone to Colt. The Metalstorm credits list her as producer. 
* Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) has sticky notes all over his apartment with random thoughts written down. One of them says "Is it Momoa or Mamoa?" At the end, Tom Ryder's Metal Storm character is recast using Jason Momoa. 
* Colt says that his first stunt was jumping a speed boat through a burning ring on the Miami Vice stunt-show, something that he could now do with his hands behind his back. When he later fakes his own death, he performs a similar boat jump with his hands tied behind his back, while the tune to Miami Vice (1984) is played. 
=== Cameo ===
* Heather Thomas: police officer during the mid-credit scene. 
* Lee Majors: police officer during the mid-credit scene. 
* Jason Momoa: As himself, replacing Tom Ryder as Space Cowboy. 
== Goofs ==
=== Continuity ===
* The final stunt shows the main character falling out of a helicopter holding a ruggedized digital storage device used in digital movie production. While he is falling through the air you can see that he is not holding anything. When he lands on the air cushion he is holding the storage device again.
* During the garbage truck chase, Colt is sprayed with windshield glass before it is actually shattered in the next scene.
* In the bar when Ryan Gosling sticks his hand in the cocktail glass, the level on the cocktail changes between the first shot and the reverse angle.
=== Factual errors ===
* During the apartment fight, Colt is shot at close range with a pistol loaded with blanks without any damage. While they don't fire a projectile, blanks are still dangerous and are known to kill at up to six feet.
* While shooting on the beach, the pyrotechnicians make several egregious errors that would get them kicked off set, never work in the industry again, and possibly arrested. First, the director Jody specifically says to stop yet they continue. Second, there are no warnings to the nearby crew that they will be going off. As people have actually died on set, most infamously on Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), this would never happen.
* Colt says that his first stuntman job was jumping a speedboat for Universal Studios' Miami Vice (1984) stunt show. The only watercraft jumps involved in that attraction used Jet Skis rather than speedboats.
=== Errors in geography ===
* In the garbage truck chase scene the chase moves quickly from the Sydney Harbour Tunnel to the Sydney Harbour bridge but in reality there is no direct road linking the two and you would have to drive through north Sydney and U turn back towards the city.
* The skip truck sequence clearly starts under the Sydney Harbour Bridge on the west side, in the area known as The Rocks. Later on, an aerial shot shows the truck, towing Seavers (Ryan Gosling), on the bridge, with the Sydney Opera House in the distance, meaning the truck is coming from the east side of Sydney, not the west.
=== Plot holes ===
* At the end of the movie, when attempting to escape in the helicopter with the recording, Tom and Gail could have simply destroyed it.
=== Character error ===
* After the car jump, Colt feels for Tom's pulse with his driving gloves still on. Since Tom has passed out, his heart beat would be too low to feel through the thick fabric.
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