The Stuntacular really begins before the show starts. Bourne film producer and Steven Spielberg confidante Frank Marshall assisted in the development of the Stuntacular, allowing the creative team to lift and remix elements from the original movies. Even for a theme-park stage show, that started with a story, which, according to Buynak, emerged through constant back and forth between writers, action designers, and technicians who brought years of stage R&D to the fold. Like the shaky-cam legacy of the Bourne movies, the Stuntacular needed to deliver hard-hitting verisimilitude at a global scale, in a package that was full of spycraft mumbo jumbo. It involves travel, it involves different buildings that you can swing off, jump off, and have different types of fights going on.” It’s not the same fistfight over and over again. Whereas if we were moving to different locations, once we can change up that architecture, there’s so much you can do. ![]() When doing stunts, you’re usually locked into the architecture and the scenery of a set. “We wanted to be able to travel to different locations. “We wanted to do a little more than what traditional stunt shows were,” Deborah Buynak, senior vice president at Universal Orlando Resort, tells Polygon. And that was the goal from the very beginning, when park creatives began poring through the Universal license library looking for inspiration for a new show. Even compared to legendary shows like Disney’s Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular and the Waterworld Stunt Show, there’s nothing quite like it. Flying somewhat under the radar at Universal Studios in Orlando - the attraction was set to launch pre-pandemic and eventually popped up in the fog of June 2020 when parks began to reopen - the stunt show adapts the visceral thrills of the Jason Bourne movies through a melding of technology and practical effects that’s performed eight times a day. This is what makes The Bourne Stuntacular such a revelation. ![]() ![]() Polygon is diving into the world of espionage throughout fiction and pop culture history with Deep Cover, a two-week special issue covering all sorts of spy stories and gadgets.
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