Maul is without doubt one of the finest and most well-known cosplayers on the planet, a person whose work we’ve featured right here for every little thing from God of Warfare to Murderer’s Creed to, repeatedly, The Witcher. His newest shoot, nevertheless, would possibly effectively be his finest but.
To commemorate the anniversary of Superman’s comics debut again in 1938, Maul took to the skies above Cologne/Köln (dwelling 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 tug it off after all required a complete group of parents working behind the scenes. Firstly, it needs to be famous, Maul—who has stuntman coaching—didn’t simply get up someday and bankroll this complete factor from his billionaire cosplay holdings; the shoot was sponsored by Pringles, as many big-budget cosplay options are as of late.
He needed to work with Warner Bros. and DC as effectively, 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 go well with (it’s black in line with his favorite Superman comedian). Jun Kim took the images, 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, 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 enhancing required to eliminate the wires, however that doesn’t rely.
You possibly can see the total gallery of pictures at Maul’s Fb web page, and under is the primary of two quick movies displaying a number of the preparation work that went into all of it:
And right here’s a clip uploaded by Wellrock displaying the pair taking off: