David Holmes: The Boy Lived on Binge – The official trailer and key art for the new documentary David Holmes: The Boy Lived, executive produced by Daniel Radcliffe and directed by Dan Hartley (Lad: A Yorkshire Story), has been released today ahead of its 16 November premiere on BINGE.
The film is a coming-of-age story of stuntman David Holmes, a prodigious teenage gymnast from Essex, England, who is selected to play Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double in the first Harry Potter film, when Daniel is just eleven.
Over the next ten years, the two form an inextricable bond, but on the penultimate film a tragic accident on set leaves David paralyzed with a debilitating spinal injury, turning his world upside down.
As Daniel and his closest stunt colleagues rally to support David and his family in their moment of need, it is David’s extraordinary spirit of resilience that becomes their greatest source of strength and inspiration.
Featuring candid personal footage shot over the last decade, behind-the-scenes material from Holmes’ stunt work, scenes of his current life and intimate interviews with David, Radcliffe, friends, family, and former crew, the film also reflects universal themes of living with adversity, growing up, forging identities in an uncertain world, and the bonds that bind us together and lift us up.
David Holmes: The Boy Lived in association with SKY, a Lightbox / Ripple Production. Directed by Dan Hartley; produced by Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, Vanessa Davies, Amy Stares; executive produced by Daniel Radcliffe, David Holmes, Dan Hartley, Sue Latimer, Sarah Spahovic.
For HBO: executive producers Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Tina Nguyen. For SKY: executive producer, Poppy Dixon.Editor’s note:
David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived on Binge – Thursday November 16 on BINGE and on FOX Docos at 10pm and available On Demand
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