Maul is without doubt one of the greatest and most well-known cosplayers on the planet, a person whose work we’ve featured right here for all the pieces from God of Warfare to Murderer’s Creed to, repeatedly, The Witcher. His newest shoot, nevertheless, may properly be his greatest but.
To commemorate the anniversary of Superman’s comics debut again in 1938, Maul took to the skies above Cologne/Köln (house of GamesCom!) to pay tribute to a personality who “is my absolute hero”. With a crane, some cables, harnesses and no small quantity of bravery, Maul and Emilija Wellrock—enjoying Lois Lane—had been hoisted above the town to carry up a van, a helicopter and one another.
To tug it off in fact required an entire group of oldsters working behind the scenes. Firstly, it needs to be famous, Maul—who has stuntman coaching—didn’t simply get up at some point and bankroll this complete factor from his billionaire cosplay holdings; the shoot was sponsored by Pringles, as many big-budget cosplay options are today.
He needed to work with Warner Bros. and DC as properly, together with Manufacturing Idea, a movie and results studio that specialises in these sort of vehicular stunts. Parallel Life, an organization that works with TV and film studios to create top-shelf costumes, made Maul’s go well with (it’s black in line with his favorite Superman comedian). Jun Kim took the photographs, with eosAndy—one other particular person we’ve featured right here a lot—on enhancing duties.
All that organisation and work was greater than price it, although, once you see the outcomes. Maul and Wellrock ended up getting hoisted 70 metres (230 toes) into the air above the town for a lot of the photographs:
With the exception being this one taken on the bottom, with Maul (and a crane) holding up a van:
And sure, OK, there needed to be a little little bit of enhancing required to eliminate the wires, however that doesn’t rely.
You possibly can see the complete gallery of photographs at Maul’s Fb web page, and under is the primary of two brief movies exhibiting among the preparation work that went into all of it:
And right here’s a clip uploaded by Wellrock exhibiting the pair taking off:
