I have waited more than forty years to meet this movie star. He has featured in more than two hundred films including the blockbuster franchises of James Bond and Mission: Impossible. Yet probably no moviegoer would recognise him−he is the highly respected film pilot and director Marc Wolff.
He first caught my attention when I watched the premiere of the 1977 Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me, with a brilliant sequence featuring a white Lotus Esprit (I was working at Lotus at the time) being chased around Sardinia by a black JetRanger. The credits listed ‘Helicopter Pilot – Marc Wolff’. From then on, whenever I watched a film with aerial sequences, I would check the credits to see if he was mentioned. Chances were, the more exciting the movie, the more likely that Marc was involved.
His most recent oh-my-goodness movie was Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), which showcases Marc’s talents once again−superstar Tom Cruise flew many of the sequences himself, under Marc’s guidance. Marc also flew the camera ship sideways between the two Blackfriars bridges at roadway height to capture Cruise running along the roof of Blackfriars Station−check out the flightpath next time you are in the vicinity and marvel. (‘Fallout’ is now available on Netflix−Ed.)
This story is from the August 2020 edition of Pilot.
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