Spoiler alert: The story includes details on episode 815 of ABC 9-1-1,, “”Laboratory rats.“”
On one 9-1-1 Episode, this would have been a centerpiece-a prosecution involving three helicopters around the skyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles which ends with an landing on the ground of the Coliseum.
But the episode of April 17 of the Drama of the Firemen of ABC, “Lab Rats”, was far from typical, marking the exit of the star and executive producer Peter Krause. Thus, the impressive waterfall was overshadowed by the captain of the station 118 Bobby Nash (Krause) dying a few minutes later in an underground laboratory where a fire had triggered the release of a deadly virus.
The air pursuit involved Buck (Oliver Stark) of 118 and his ex Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr.) leading two military helicopters on a lure mission while Angela Bassett) rushed to deliver an antiviral bottle to the Bobby team, whose fireplace (Kenneth Choi), had been infected.
The plan worked and the fireplace lived; It was finally Bobby who sacrificed his life for his team. (For Deadline’s coverage of Krause’s release, read our story with Krause’s comments as well as a question and answer session with the star / executive producer Bassett and the producer / executive showrunner Tim Minear.)
Here, Minear discusses the pursuit of the helicopter, which was not a CGI tip.
“Everything was real,” he said.
How did they succeed?
“We have helicopters and we have obtained an air unit,” he said. “Basically, I knew that I wanted the Lafd helicopter to land on the roof of the building and that our people escape this way.”
It is a reference of Tommy who arrives in Buck and the rescue of Athena as they fled the FBI with the antidote.
“And then Bob Williams, our line producer, who always gives me more than I asked for – when we did the tsunami, he called me from Mexico and said:” Would you like to see this Ferris wheel collapse in the Pacific because it was not in the script “, recalls minear.” So Bob said: “Anyone can make a helicopter. Obtain two military propellers and that we had a prosecution through the city center of Los Angeles which is found in the Colosseum? “, And I said to myself:” Let’s do it “.
He then revealed what the sequence was likely.
“Originally, there was a four -minute version of what I loved. And I slapped Wagner on it, it was Ride of the ValkyriesAnd it was my favorite thing, I watched it a million times, “said Minear.” It lasts four minutes, I say to myself, I will probably have to cut your office scene, because I’m so in love with that. “”
In its original form, the sequence was clearly a tribute to what is probably the most famous helicopter scene of all time Apocalypse nowWhich is also four minutes long and was put to Wagner’s music. But that didn’t look like it.
“Finally, the studio network spoke to me, and they really can’t be Ride of the ValkyriesAnd that cannot be four minutes, “said Minear.
