The film about Daniel Radcliffe’s stuntman David Holmes starts streaming today

For many people, Christmas is also Harry Potter time. While Amazon Prime * has brought the old films into its program that dominate the streaming charts there, there is still other supplies for Harry Potter fans this year. Because David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived starts today, December 24, 2023 on WOW * and takes a new look at the franchise from a previously unexplored perspective.

Daniel Radcliffe and his stuntman: The new Harry Potter documentary is a story of survival

The Sky channel picked up the reunion special Return to Hogwarts – 20 Years of Harry Potter two years ago. Now the next new Hogwarts entry is coming to its streaming service WOW. The title of the documentary David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived plays on the world-famous sorcerer’s apprentice’s reputation as the “boy who lived.” However, the focus is not (only) Daniel Radcliffe, but above all him Man who was his stunt double for six films and finally had an accident during rehearsals for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: David Holmes.

See the trailer for the slightly different Harry Potter film here:

The HBO documentary highlights the life story of David Holmes and its unexpected twists and turns. Because that the stuntman himself On set in 2009 so badly injured his spine, that from then on he was in a wheelchair, wasn’t the end. The Boy Who Lived shows his courage to live with a lot of heart. Even Daniel Radcliffe was persuaded to make another appearance in the Harry Potter context, although he otherwise wants to leave the series behind him.

David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived opens up new perspectives on Harry Potter

David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived is a film divided into several parts. To get started, we learn a lot about the stunt work on Harry Potter with exciting archive material and win new insights into scenes that we have long known inside and out. What was it like fighting dragons on the Harry Potter set and enjoying painful broomstick flights more than Daniel Radcliffe?

Only then does the everything-changing Harry Potter accident come into focus, with the documentary exploring how this could have happenedand then take a look at David Holmes’ Life afterward – including his relationship with Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe. The actor visits him regularly and says, for example, that the relationship with his stuntman on set was more intimate than that with Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.

First of all, every Harry Potter fan should know that David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived not easy food is. It doesn’t offer the cinematic comfort blanket of cinema works. Nevertheless, it’s worth taking a look behind the scenes and at an extraordinary person who doesn’t believe in assigning blame and who also shows his optimism without a magic wand enchanted against all odds.

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