Author Topic: Parkour-based movie to come out in 2009...bad for parkour? (Read 7764 times)

Andy Keller · « **on:** April 07, 2007, 09:35:06 AM »

Today, while surfing the web, I noticed an article about a movie about Parkour. The basic storyline is that a renegade cop must infiltrate the underground Parkour community in order to stop a group of traceur-bank robbers. The movie will star Channing Tatum, the actor from movies like Step Up and Supercross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channing_Tatum).

The article doesnt give very much detail as to what the attitude will be toward Parkour in this film, but I hope it is that of acceptance and respect, not opposition and rejection.

I am unsure what to think about this...
Will it depict traceurs as thieves and criminals?
Will it spread Parkour in a bad way? (e.g. no conditioning and no safety guidelines?)
Or, will it help Parkour by bringing more public awareness to it and more of an understanding?

Here is the link to the article...
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=20387

what are your thoughts?

parkourkid · « **Reply #1 on:** April 07, 2007, 12:22:27 PM »

i dont know like you said try find get more information on it and remember its just a movie.

ZacharyCohn · « **Reply #2 on:** April 07, 2007, 02:51:35 PM »

Right, but any big name movie that comes out is going to influence public opinion on things that they know nothing about... namely parkour. :p

So if we have movies that cast us in a bad light... the public will see us in a bad light.

parkourkid · « **Reply #3 on:** April 07, 2007, 03:38:20 PM »

i guess your right

Andy Animus Tran · « **Reply #4 on:** April 07, 2007, 04:09:04 PM »

This can go either way... Hopefully, someone with some real experience will get behind it. APK, maybe?

Andy Keller · « **Reply #5 on:** April 07, 2007, 05:29:54 PM »

I hope, Animus.

They are still in the script writing stage so they have time to get help. Do you think it would do any good for APK to contact them and see if they need any help/stunt-doubles? i think that would ensure a good representation. hmm.

m2 or anybody else at APK... what do you think?

Rispearski · « **Reply #6 on:** April 07, 2007, 06:42:51 PM »

I hate to be the downer, but do you guys really thing that a Parkour movie will become a huge boxoffice smash? And if it does do that well, I'd like to think that people will overlook the movie's fictional plot, and begin to research obsesively like they do with everything else. Maybe then we'll get some posts in the Michigan forums...

Zeus · « **Reply #7 on:** April 07, 2007, 08:15:41 PM »

I think that if they do make a movie putting traceurs in a bad light they will have a very hard time finding traceurs.

Andy Animus Tran · « **Reply #8 on:** April 07, 2007, 08:26:51 PM »

Quote from: Zeus on April 07, 2007, 08:15:41 PM

I think that if they do make a movie putting traceurs in a bad light they will have a very hard time finding traceurs.

...Urban Freeflow, who's been behind nearly all the films that has had anything REMOTELY to do with Parkour. Blood and Chocolate, anyone?

YoungOne · « **Reply #9 on:** April 23, 2007, 04:26:44 PM »

no matter the plot of the movie it his how we the individual traceurs rep Parkour that will matter in the long run. We are a relatively new commodity and so it will take awhile for the media to learn how to deal with us. So long as we continue to represent or sport/art positively we will not really have anything to worry about.

kage · « **Reply #10 on:** April 23, 2007, 09:50:23 PM »

Quote from: Rispearski on April 07, 2007, 06:42:51 PM

I hate to be the downer, but do you guys really thing that a Parkour movie will become a huge boxoffice smash?

R u kiddin??? have you ever seen the expression on somebody's face when you show them their first parkour video??? Even amituers can make an exciting pk vid (check out the pics and vids - none of thats done for the big screen but its all awesome bc pk is a very entertaining to watch) so think how sweet it will be when a professional director and team makes a vid. If a movie like step-up, and dirty dancing, which were about something as boring as dancing can become pretty well known, then any parkour movie could be.

And... It could very easily be a bad thing for parkour. I really hope they don't put parkour in a bad light, but ppl have a way of doing that to "over dramaticize" things to make them more interesting. Lets hope that isn't the case for this movie, whenever it comes out.

like_a_child · « **Reply #11 on:** May 12, 2007, 10:26:03 PM »

Quote from: Jag on April 07, 2007, 09:35:06 AM

The basic storyline is that a renegade cop must infiltrate the underground Parkour community in order to stop a group of traceur-bank robbers.

Doesn't quite add up for me. Why must the underground Parkour community be infiltrated? Aren't its members glad to expose the criminals among them, to prevent their actions from reflecting poorly on the whole community?

The premise seems to be that Parkour practitioners are so loyal that they would conceal crime. Sounds rather like a gang to me, in the organized crime sense.

I could see a sort of subpopulation of the criminal underground, specializing in PK, that has to keep "underground" so the regular (mainstream) Parkour community doesn't identify them.

Matthew Lee Willis · « **Reply #12 on:** May 13, 2007, 05:34:05 AM »

HEHE I love it Renegade cop. Parkour Gang. I so want to be apart of a Parkour Bank Robbing Gang.

ARES^34 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 15, 2007, 08:49:26 AM »

honestly, it's going to be a good thing for parkour. just because the bad guys in fast n' furious drive sweet cars, you still want a sweet can don't you? And just because the bad Jet Li in "the one" uses martial arts, that doesn't make you any less loving of the arts, does it?
so it is with parkour. people will recognize that it is a discipline that can be used for bad things, but that the intention is just the opposite.

Andy Keller · « **Reply #14 on:** May 15, 2007, 11:30:03 AM »

Interesting idea ARES^34

You may be right

Mark Toorock · « **Reply #15 on:** May 20, 2007, 03:22:05 AM »

I'm working to find more info. Anyone have an IMBD pro subscription? http://imdb.com/title/tt0968767/

Andy Keller · « **Reply #16 on:** May 20, 2007, 12:45:31 PM »

To sign-up for a 14-day free trial, click here...

http://pro.imdb.com/r/legacy-inprod-title/inproduction/

Kurokaze · « **Reply #17 on:** May 21, 2007, 09:56:04 PM »

well firstly, we all know the renegade cop could NEVER be able to catch the trceurs in real life.

Andy Keller · « **Reply #18 on:** May 27, 2007, 12:27:52 PM »

Any news m2?

kage · « **Reply #19 on:** May 28, 2007, 09:01:25 AM »

what is the name of the movie?

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Author Topic: Parkour-based movie to come out in 2009...bad for parkour? (Read 7764 times)