Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot finds herself in a heated situation as she runs from explosions in the latest look at the upcoming Netflix action flick, Heart of Stone. Released courtesy of Empire, Gadot has discussed her ambitions for Heart of Stone, with the actress hoping to lead her own James Bond/Bourne/Mission: Impossible style action franchise.
“I realised that there was an audience for a female action protagonist. I grew up watching Bond, and Mission, and Bourne. I wanted to create a really strong, female-driven action movie that is for everybody, not a male story that’s been done many times already.”
As well as giving a female perspective to the male-dominated action movie genre, Gal Gadot wants Heart of Stone to be at least somewhat grounded in reality. Unlike her characters in the likes of Wonder Woman and the Fast and Furious series. So, while the new image from Heart of Stone sees Gadot’s secret agent running across an exploding blimp, the actress and the creatives behind the movie “got into the science” to bring such a feat to life as realistically as possible.
“The scene was even crazier, at a higher altitude, and we got into the science of it and dialled it down so that a human could do it. That was something I wanted to really make sure we nailed. That could be done by people.”
This dedication to grounded-and-gritty action sequences has led to Gadot doing a lot of her own stunts in Heart of Stone, though the actress has been forced to step aside when it comes to the really dangerous stuff.
“What I can do as an actor, I’ll always go for it and… fight with intention and really perform that. The crazy, crazy stuff, I can’t, they won’t let me!”
Heart of Stone Is Due to Land on Netflix in August
Directed by Tom Harper (Peaky Blinders, The Aeronauts) from a screenplay by Greg Rucka (The Old Guard) and Allison Schroeder (Hidden Figures) and with a story by Rucka, Heart of Stone centers on elite agent, Rachel Stone, who harbors a secret even bigger than her career with the CIA – she’s the only woman who stands between an ultra-mysterious, powerful, global, peace-keeping organization the Charter, and the loss of its most valuable, and most dangerous, asset: The Heart.
Gal Gadot is not the only one with aspirations of sparking a franchise, with director Tom Harper hoping that Heart of Stone will take over from the likes of Bond and Bourne. “I love those films, but they’ve all been around for decades, so working on something that was an addition to that genre but an original piece of material felt really exciting and was a real opportunity,” he said.
Led by Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman 1984, Zack Snyder’s Justice League) as Rachel Stone, Heart of Stone will star a supporting cast that includes the likes of Jamie Dornan (The Fall, Fifty Shades of Grey), Alia Bhatt (Highway), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda, Death on the Nile), Matthias Schweighöfer (Army of the Dead), Jing Lusi (Crazy Rich Asians), Paul Ready (The Terror), Jon Kortajarena (A Single Man), Matteo Cicconi, and Angela Esposito.
Heart of Stone is scheduled to be released on August 11, 2023, by Netflix.
This story originally appeared on Movieweb
