A remake of the 2005 Danish film of the same name, Ambulance stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as two thieves on the run. Let’s discover some curiosities about the high-speed thriller directed by Michael Bay, which will be broadcast for the first time on TV this evening.
This evening, May 23, 2024at 9.30pmwill air on Italy 1 in first ever viewing Ambulance (2022), a fast-paced thriller directed by Michael Bay. Source material for the noisy director was theDanish film of the same name dated 2005. The remake Stars and Stripes tells of the wild raids of two thieves on the run, between crazy chases and dangerous accelerations. The film, which features protagonists Jake Gyllenhaal And Yahya Abdul-Mateenrepresents from a certain point of view a unicum in the career by Bay: why?
The reason is linked to budget of the action movie, which amounts to ‘just’ 40 million dollars. An unfair amount, when compared to those invested for previous efforts Michael Bay. An example above all? For Transformers: The Last Knightthe Universal invested a whopping 260 million dollars! Believe it or not, anyway, Ambulance it’s not the film that cost the least in ‘father’s’ filmography Pain & Gain (2013). The undefeated player holds the record Bad Boys (1995), which cost $19 million. In second place, there is the action comedy with Mark Wahlberg And Dwayne Johnson, made on a budget of $22 million. Bronze medal, therefore, for the film with Gyllenhaal.
Ambulance was shot in just 38 days, in the midst of restrictions due to Covid. “The city was empty – Bay recalled in 2022, during a meeting with the press – it was precisely the weeks of the peak of infections. […] The atmosphere on set was still excellent, we laughed a lot, even if you couldn’t always see it: we always had masks on.”
Ambulance: plot, cast and curiosities about Michael Bay’s thriller
Los Angeles. The war veteran Will (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and the criminal Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal) are two very different brothers. When the ex-marine asks Danny for help with find the money that he needs to treat his wife, the latter offers to help him score one robbery monumental, which would bring in as much as 32 million dollars. Will, cornered, accepts. p
During the coup, however, a police officer is seriously injured: the two brothers have no choice but to leak with the loot on board… an ambulance! What they don’t know is that the paramedics are inside the vehicle Cam Thompson (Eiza González), who helps an injured policeman. Will the two scoundrels be able to get away with it and escape with the loot, or will the police stop the ambulance, risking killing the injured man?
In 2022 Jake Gyllenhaalduring the promotional tour for the film, admitted that, on an acting level, Ambulance it was a real challenge: “In almost the entire film you have limited mobility, you have to work with your voice and face, the rest is fixed to the front seats.” Michael Bay, instead, he revealed that, in reality, There are three ambulances that we see in the film: “One for chases, one completely removable to be able to shoot from inside with various shots and one for accidents”.
But it really is Yahya Abdul-Mateen who drives the vehicle in that reckless manner? Many of the chases they were filmed, in fact, without stunt doubles. Which Bay certainly didn’t mind, because he added a percentage of realism to the result. The one who, however, was not at all happy was Gyllenhaal, who often asked his colleague to slow down!
In addition to those already mentioned, they complete the cast of the film Garret Dillahunt, Adolfo Martinez, Keir O’Donnell, Moses Ingram, Colin Woodell, Jackson White And Brendan Miller.
