{"id":601,"date":"2016-06-13T19:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2018-03-02T17:40:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:40:05","slug":"virgin-mobile-stunt-with-sir-richard-branson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/virgin-mobile-stunt-with-sir-richard-branson\/","title":{"rendered":"VIRGIN MOBILE STUNT WITH SIR RICHARD BRANSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago the Danger Boy team had the fantastic opportunity to work with Sir Richard Branson and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgin.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Virgin Mobile Group<\/a> to create a dynamic stunt for their \u201cEscape Your Cell\u201d live event.\u00a0 We were asked to both stunt coordinate, rig and fabricate all the props for a live stunt to be performed by Branson himself.\u00a0 The show was to be held at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ydsquare.ca\/web\/\" target=\"_new\">Yonge-Dundas Square<\/a> in the heart of downtown Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Branson gave interviews all morning from a jail cell situated in the middle of the square.\u00a0 His cell was a poke at other cell phone companies and how, at the time, they didn\u2019t make it easy to change providers and keep your current number.\u00a0 With the new number portability rules in Canada, Branson wanted to make certain that everyone knew that they now had the power to change providers and keep their old phone number.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/virgin-mobile-stunt-with-sir-richard-branson\/2-3\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-603\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-603 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2-1.jpg\" alt=\"stunt, stunt performer, stunter, stunt coordinator, movie stunt, high fall, fire stunt, ratchet, harness, aerial stunt, acrobatic, slack line, high line, fx coordinator, spfx coordinator, virgin, red bull, Richard branson, tom comet\" width=\"599\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2-1.jpg 599w, http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Virgin Mobile stunt that we implemented involved Branson himself shackled inside the steel jail cell hoisted fifty feet above the square suspended only from an industrial crane.\u00a0 Suddenly there was a huge pyro explosion, the jail cell blew apart in mid air and Branson was free!\u00a0 He then threw down an exceptionally long bed sheet (as you do when escaping from jail) and climbed down to safety.\u00a0 The crowd went wild!<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI felt totally safe and secure.\u00a0 The stunt went completely according to plan and was a huge success\u201d <\/strong><br \/>\n~Sir Richard Branson \u2013 Virgin Group<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-602 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/9.jpg\" alt=\"stunt, stunt performer, stunter, stunt coordinator, movie stunt, high fall, fire stunt, ratchet, harness, aerial stunt, acrobatic, slack line, high line, fx coordinator, spfx coordinator, virgin, red bull, Richard branson, tom comet\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/9.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/9-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/9-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>This was a challenging, stressful and extremely fun project for us.\u00a0 It brought together many of the components that Circus Orange does best \u2013 stunts, rigging, fabrication and pyrotechnics.\u00a0 The tricky part here was that the stunt was not going to be implemented by one of our trained stunt professionals but rather by the A-list celebrity Sir Richard Branson.\u00a0 The other exciting part was that Branson was scheduled to arrive the morning of the stunt and our lead stunt coordinator, Tom Comet, would have a mere 15 minutes to brief him on his role.\u00a0 To say that this stunt had to be \u201cturn-key\u201d would be an understatement!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_727\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1024px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/virgin-mobile-stunt-with-sir-richard-branson\/tc-sir-richard\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-727\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-727 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/TC-Sir-Richard-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"stunt, stunt performer, stunter, stunt coordinator, movie stunt, high fall, fire stunt, ratchet, harness, aerial stunt, acrobatic, slack line, high line, fx coordinator, spfx coordinator, virgin, red bull, Richard branson, tom comet\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/TC-Sir-Richard.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/TC-Sir-Richard-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/TC-Sir-Richard-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Our head stunt coordinator Tom Comet with Sir Richard Branson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago the Danger Boy team had the fantastic opportunity to work with Sir Richard Branson and the Virgin Mobile Group to create a dynamic stunt for their \u201cEscape Your Cell\u201d live event.\u00a0 We were asked to both &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/virgin-mobile-stunt-with-sir-richard-branson\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5,6],"tags":[146,179,158,18,192,16,184,290,14,159,108,156,145,289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}