Dan Bradley

Dan Bradley
Known for Stunt work

Dan Bradley is a stunt coordinator and second unit film director. He has worked on Independence Day, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Superman Returns, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Where The Wild Things Are, Quantum of Solace, and recently, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.[1]

In July 2008, Bradley was announced as the director for the MGM remake of the 1984 Cold War movie Red Dawn.[2]

Bradley will be directing the supernatural action feature Hellified for Paramount Pictures.[3]

Bradley served as the stunt coordinator and second unit for the car chase scenes in The Dukes of Hazard. Johnny Knoxville praised him saying "everyone in Hollywood wants Dan Bradley to shoot their car stuff" and cited him as a factor in his taking a role in the film.[4]

He was also originally cast to portray Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives but was replaced by C.J. Graham despite this the scenes he filmed were still included in the film making this the second instance of 2 actors portraying Jason in one film (not including A New Beginning as the killer was not Jason though he appeared in dreams and hallucinations).

In 2016, he made his debut in Indian Cinema, as the Second Unit Director and Stunt co-ordinator of the Bollywood film Ghayal Once Again.

References

  1. Bradley tapped to aid Bond stunts by The Hollywood Reporter Date September 04, 2007. Access date September 2009
  2. Fernandez, Jay A.; Borys Kit (2008-07-09). "'Red Dawn' redo lands director, scribe; MGM will remake the 1984 action drama". The Hollywood Reporter.
  3. Kit, Borys (2009-06-25). "Paramount nabs 'Hellified' spec". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on June 26, 2009.
  4. Johnny Knoxville interview for The Dukes of Hazzard
Preceded by
Tom Morga
Actors portraying Jason Voorhees
1986 - With C.J. Graham
Succeeded by
Kane Hodder
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