Craig Fairbrass’ leap to blockbusters
Today it would be fair to say that the Footsoldier films are what Craig Fairbrass has made his own and is synonymous with the franchise. But it is worth remembering that early in his career he made appeared in the TV series ‘London’s Burning’ and the award winning first two series of Prime Suspect that starred Helen Mirren. But immediately after that he popped up as a cockney geezer villain sidekick to John Lithgow’s villain in the summer blockbuster, ‘Cliffhanger’ (1993) and Craig Fairbrass talks Cliffhanger behind the scenes exclusively to us!
What was the story of Cliffhanger…
The film saw Stallone play Gabe a mountain rescue operative recovering from the trauma of a tragic mountain accident and a year later, Gabe is asked to go back to the same mountain range and rescue a group of ‘stranded’ people. The only catch is that these so called ‘stranded’ people are in fact looking for three boxes filled with $100,000,000 and they need a mountain ranger to lead them to locating those boxes!!
Why Stallone’s early 90’s films failed …
For Stallone it was a return to action films after a disastrous foray into comedy with ‘Stop! or me mom will shoot!’ and ‘Oscar’ that both bombed. As helmed by Renny Harlin who was hot off Die Hard 2 the pair fashioned a thrilling blockbuster shot on location in the Alps and photographed brilliantly with several excellent set pieces one of which was copied directed by Christopher Nolan in The Dark Knight Rises. With an excellent trailer that whetted audiences appetite the film was a huge success.
Craig Fairbrass talks Cliffhanger…
We got to chat with Craig about how he went from British TV drama to a huge summer blockbuster with an A list star.
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Craig Fairbrass talks Cliffhanger and a load of behind the scenes stories….
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