When it comes to movie stunts involving actors, the utmost care and planning are often used to ensure everyone involved walks away unscathed. However, sometimes even with numerous precautions and strategies, a stunt can still go haywire. That was the case for Gerard Butler and Pierce Brosnan during the filming of the 2007 thriller Butterfly on a Wheel, also known as Shattered.
The two actors play opposite each other, as Butler's character, Neil Randall, is forced to comply with the commands of Brosnan's character Tom Ryan, who kidnaps Neil's daughter, Sophie. For most of the film, Neil is at the mercy of Tom's twisted demands — except for one key moment involving a car crash.
After discovering that Tom is also a father, Neil points out his tormenter's hypocrisy in his nefarious actions. While Tom drives them to a parking garage, Neil continues to goad him until Tom presses heavily on the gas. It's then that the scene comes to a literal crashing halt as Tom speeds toward the edge of the parking garage roof and crashes into a small wall. The slamming conclusion definitely amplifies the drama, but it was also unplanned, according to Butler.
Shattered [dvd] (2007) Pierce Brosnan; Maria Bello; Gerard Butler; Mike Barker
While speaking with GQ, the actor revealed that the car crash wasn't supposed to happen, and the vehicle was actually supposed to stop before hitting the wall. As a result, Butler further added that the stunt messed up his neck. He told GQ, ... When we cut, I crawled out of the car, I fell onto the ground, and I have to say, the rest of that movie was a struggle. So, exactly what caused the stunt to go wrong?
For Butterfly on a Wheel, Pierce Brosnan may have been too in character during the car crash stunt. After all, the scene in question showcases his character Tom Ryan briefly letting his anger boil over. Gerard Butler further recalled with GQ that on the director's orders, he was supposed to wind up Brosnan more for their scene despite his co-star already displaying more than enough intensity. As a result, Butler believed that Brosnan was possibly too stirred up to properly brake and let a special cable attached to the vehicle safely hold them.
Butler told GQ, I think he [Brosnan] was so crazy, I don't think he applied the brakes in time, and the cable didn't hold us, so we smashed into the wall, on the edge of this building, and the car goes up, and then the cable pulls us back so we got double the whiplash.
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Fortunately, there didn't seem to be any hard feelings from Butler, as he also noted to GQ that he doesn't blame Brosnan for the crash. Besides, in a nice coincidence, the former 007 actor did kind of makeup for the collision by saving another co-star from a vehicle mishap years later. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, while filming Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, a runaway van with no driver was on course to hit some of the cast and crew, including Uma Thurman. But Brosnan yelled for everyone to get out of the way, chased the van, got in, and stopped it.Butterfly on a Wheel (US: Shattered, Europe: Desperate Hours) is a 2007 British–Canadian mystery thriller film directed by Mike Barker, co-produced and writt by William Morrissey, and starring Pierce Brosnan, Gerard Butler, and Maria Bello. The film's title is an allusion to a line of Alexander Pope's poem Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot: Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? The line is usually interpreted as questioning why someone would put great effort into achieving something minor or unimportant, or who would punish a minor offder with a disproportional punishmt.
Chicago couple Neil and Abby Randall have the perfect life and a perfect marriage. With their beautiful young daughter, Sophie, they are living the American dream until Sophie is suddly kidnapped. Neil and Abby have no choice but to comply with the abductor's demands. Tom Ryan, an appart sociopath, takes over their lives with the brutal efficicy of someone who has nothing to lose.
In the blink of an eye, Neil and Abby's safe and secure existce is turned upside down. Tom doesn't want their money and instead wants their life to be systematically dismantled and destroyed, piece by piece.
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With time running out, Neil and Abby realise they have to submit to Tom's challges over the next 24-hour period. He asks them how far will they go to save their child, and gives them a series of tasks to complete before they can have their daughter back. He requires them to withdraw more than US$130, 000 (equivalt to $183, 000 in 2022) from their bank which is all the money they have. After they give him the money, Tom burns it and throws into a river along with their wallets. Tom th requires the pair to obtain $300 from nowhere in a part of the town where they don't have any frids. Abby pawns her bracelet and Neil his watch to get the $300. Tom requires Abby to deliver a documt to the office of Neil's employer's competitor within 20 minutes, and Tom shows Neil a copy of the documt, containing details of Neil's hacking into customer accounts, which if leaked will ruin Neil. Neil watches Abby deliver the documt from a distance. Neil and Abby think that Sophie is being held in a hotel, and they try to rescue her, only to get caught by Tom. As punishmt, Tom makes Abby take off her dress and put on an ticing short dress in front of both him and Neil.
Tom has one last test for Neil to save Sophie, in which he requires Neil to ter a house and kill the occupant. There, Neil finds Judy, a co-worker he has be having an affair with. Neil is greeted warmly by Judy, and is desperately confused as he sees a picture of Tom on the mantel and learns that Tom and Judy are married. Tom ters the house and tells Neil to shoot Judy or he will kill Sophie. Neil pulls the trigger but the gun isn't loaded. Tom reveals he knows about their affair and tells Neil that Sophie is safe at home.
As they head home, Neil lies to Abby and tells her that his boss was having an affair with Judy and Tom mistook Neil for that person, which is why Tom had tormted them the whole day. Wh they reach home, Sophie is asleep and has be there the whole time. Abby reveals to Neil that their daughter had never be kidnapped, and Tom had concocted the tire day to let Neil experice for one day the pain he had undergone. Neil says that Abby has ruined his career by delivering the documt to the competitor's office, but she tells him it was blank, revealing she was involved in the deception. For 24 hours Abby has paid Neil back a portion of the pain she has expericed since learning of his affair.
Pierce Brosnan Files: Butterfly On A Wheel / Shattered: Gallery: Photos 1
Vancouver stands in for Chicago but the production shot in the latter city for landscapes before moving to the United Kingdom for post-production.
With time running out, Neil and Abby realise they have to submit to Tom's challges over the next 24-hour period. He asks them how far will they go to save their child, and gives them a series of tasks to complete before they can have their daughter back. He requires them to withdraw more than US$130, 000 (equivalt to $183, 000 in 2022) from their bank which is all the money they have. After they give him the money, Tom burns it and throws into a river along with their wallets. Tom th requires the pair to obtain $300 from nowhere in a part of the town where they don't have any frids. Abby pawns her bracelet and Neil his watch to get the $300. Tom requires Abby to deliver a documt to the office of Neil's employer's competitor within 20 minutes, and Tom shows Neil a copy of the documt, containing details of Neil's hacking into customer accounts, which if leaked will ruin Neil. Neil watches Abby deliver the documt from a distance. Neil and Abby think that Sophie is being held in a hotel, and they try to rescue her, only to get caught by Tom. As punishmt, Tom makes Abby take off her dress and put on an ticing short dress in front of both him and Neil.
Tom has one last test for Neil to save Sophie, in which he requires Neil to ter a house and kill the occupant. There, Neil finds Judy, a co-worker he has be having an affair with. Neil is greeted warmly by Judy, and is desperately confused as he sees a picture of Tom on the mantel and learns that Tom and Judy are married. Tom ters the house and tells Neil to shoot Judy or he will kill Sophie. Neil pulls the trigger but the gun isn't loaded. Tom reveals he knows about their affair and tells Neil that Sophie is safe at home.
As they head home, Neil lies to Abby and tells her that his boss was having an affair with Judy and Tom mistook Neil for that person, which is why Tom had tormted them the whole day. Wh they reach home, Sophie is asleep and has be there the whole time. Abby reveals to Neil that their daughter had never be kidnapped, and Tom had concocted the tire day to let Neil experice for one day the pain he had undergone. Neil says that Abby has ruined his career by delivering the documt to the competitor's office, but she tells him it was blank, revealing she was involved in the deception. For 24 hours Abby has paid Neil back a portion of the pain she has expericed since learning of his affair.
Pierce Brosnan Files: Butterfly On A Wheel / Shattered: Gallery: Photos 1
Vancouver stands in for Chicago but the production shot in the latter city for landscapes before moving to the United Kingdom for post-production.
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