![]() ![]() It was horrible.” Photo credit: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. But events unfolded that we just didn’t account for and it wound up with Dylan getting hurt very severely. We didn’t go into it blindly, we thought we were using all of the proper precaution systems. People are looking at me because they trust me and feel things are going to be OK. “I’m the director, so it was my set, I can’t help but feel some sense of responsibility. “I felt terrible when Dylan was hurt,” Ball affirms to no surprise. If not past a trauma that Ball says will haunt him for the rest of his life. “It actually worked out better, because it meant we could do things that we just couldn’t do otherwise. “My challenge was how to pull that sequence off without doing it for real,” adds Ball, who shot other aspects of the opening action at the edge of the Kalahari Desert. The rest of it was done in a parking lot. “There’s only one shot that we used from Vancouver where he’s actually on a moving vehicle. “Basically, what it came down to was I wasn’t going to put Dylan on more moving vehicles,” the director explains. A visual effects expert before he made his feature directing debut with “Maze Runner” in 2014, Ball also employed his skills at movie fakery to ensure all of the new shots with O’Brien could be cheated with camera angles and special effects, or as he puts it: But Wes and everyone from the crew, even people who weren’t there the first time around, were very respectful of what an incredibly difficult thing it was to do.”īall scheduled the chase sequence reshoots well into the South Africa production, to give O’Brien time to get more comfortable doing other action scenes, rebuild trust and have plenty of opportunities to discuss any misgivings he might have had. I couldn’t really control it, and I was even a little surprised myself by how viscerally I responded to going back to all of that. My parents were even both there when we finished it off, and Wes and our stunt coordinator Glenn Suter. “But I had a tremendous amount of support through it. “Just getting back to the set, putting the clothes back on, getting back to the movie there was a lot of eeriness to it,” O’Brien, now 26, continues. I’d always known that that was going to be a piece of it, I’d always known that that was going to be not fun for me, and a challenge. ![]() “The accident happened when we were filming the opening sequence,” in which O’Brien’s Thomas and other resistors try to rescue captives of the oppressive WCKD organization from a speeding train, the actor recalls. Photo credit: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. ![]()
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