Daniel Radcliffe is making a film about his paralysed ‘Harry Potter’ stunt double
nme.comDaniel Radcliffe is making a film about one of his stunt doubles on Harry Potter who was paralysed following an accident on one of the film’s sets.As per Deadline, Sky and HBO Documentary Films are working on David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived which was described by Sky as “a coming-of-age story of stuntman David Holmes, a prodigious teenage gymnast from Essex, England, who is selected to play Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double in the first Harry Potter film, when Daniel is just eleven.”Radcliffe starred as the titular character in all eight films in the world-famous series based on J.K.
Rowling’s books, which concluded in 2011 while Holmes was his stunt double until an accident on the penultimate film left him paralysed.The synopsis adds: “Over the next ten years, the two form an inextricable bond, but on the penultimate film a tragic accident on set leaves David paralysed with a debilitating spinal injury, turning his world upside down.
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