Ronaldo's Stuntnuts Adds A Matt Damon Cameo

Matthew Vaughn and Cristiano Ronaldo's stuntman action comedy “Stuntnuts” gets its first market screening at AFM and a new Matt Damon cameo, per Deadline. The film, which features Chris Hemsworth and Sam Rockwell playing themselves, was shot a couple of years ago and has not been released.

The mechanism is the used car lot. A movie that is already finished goes to market the way a three-year-old car gets a freshly detailed sticker, and the pitch at a trade market is the name list. Hemsworth. Rockwell. Ronaldo. And now Damon, which per SlashFilm helps a filmed but unwatched picture finally find a buyer. Each new name is a sticker. The car is the same car.

The accident got written in. Stuntman Greg Townley fell the wrong way off a water tower on set and broke his back in three places, the delay pushed the shoot back months, and the injury became part of the movie as a portrait of what these daredevils go through. That is not insurance, that is source material, and it is the only part of the film you cannot call a cameo.

And the stuntman homage is actually a comic book thing: per Deadline's first look it is a Kick-Ass spinoff, Vaughn's homage to the stunt artists who take the hits in other people's films, now fronted by a footballer. When the studio is asked about any of it, the producers decline to comment. Declining is the most professional behavior in the pitch.

YOUR TURN: Five A-list names, one real broken back, and it is a Kick-Ass movie. Which part of that pitch do you believe least?