Maul is among the finest and most well-known cosplayers on the planet, a person whose work we’ve featured right here for every part from God of Battle to Murderer’s Creed to, repeatedly, The Witcher. His newest shoot, nevertheless, may nicely be his finest 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—have been hoisted above town to carry up a van, a helicopter and one another.
To drag it off after all required a complete crew of oldsters working behind the scenes. Firstly, it needs to be famous, Maul—who has stuntman coaching—didn’t simply get up in the future and bankroll this entire 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 nicely, together with Manufacturing Idea, a movie and results studio that specialises in these type of vehicular stunts. Parallel Life, an organization that works with TV and film studios to create top-shelf costumes, made Maul’s swimsuit (it’s black consistent with his favorite Superman comedian). Jun Kim took the photographs, with eosAndy—one other particular person we’ve featured right here a lot—on modifying duties.
All that organisation and work was greater than price it, although, while you see the outcomes. Maul and Wellrock ended up getting hoisted 70 metres (230 toes) into the air above town for a lot of the pictures:
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 modifying required to eliminate the wires, however that doesn’t rely.
You may see the complete gallery of pictures at Maul’s Fb web page, and beneath is the primary of two brief movies displaying among the preparation work that went into all of it:
And right here’s a clip uploaded by Wellrock displaying the pair taking off:
