Corrie double death teased as ITV soap 'makes history' with explosive Hollywood prop
dailystar.co.ukCoronation Street boss Iain MacLeod has promised some "very real danger" for Gary Windass and Kelly Neelan amid Millie Gibson's exit.The soap intends to use a Hollywood technique never before seen in a continuing drama to bring some "high stakes jeopardy" to the characters we all know and love, as years of secrets go off in one "cataclysmic explosion".Speaking to Daily Star and other press, the Corrie producer explained: "We decided to go full Corriewood.
Among many amazing things, the centrepiece to the week is a sequence that we’ve shot using technology that’s more commonly found in The Mandalorian, or they use a slightly larger version of this in a lot of the Avengers movies.READ MORE: Ex Coronation Street icon unrecognisable in baffling throwback snap of the cast"It’s called a volume wall, which is relatively new to me.
Essentially it's a very new version of what they would have called a green screen, or back projection in the early days of the talkies."Iain explained that the technology means actors can be transported anywhere, as crew can "design a 3D world".He joked: "You can essentially design the surface of Mars and stick Ken and Rita up there having a Mr Kipling and a cup of tea, should you wish."Sobering up, he went on: "Now clearly we didn’t want to do that, because that would be slightly bizarre.
So what we’ve done instead is create this incredible rooftop sequence with a twinkling Mancunian cityscape behind it, so we can do things that you can never normally do on a location shoot."You can put real actors in what appears to be very real danger without using stunt performers.
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