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Mar 30, 2007 · Blades of Glory: Directed by Josh Gordon, Will Speck. With Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler. In 2002, two rival Olympic ice skaters were stripped of their gold medals and permanently banned from men's single competition.
- Josh Gordon, Will Speck
- 2 min
- Amanda Bruce
- Unbroken (2020) Available to stream on DistroTV. While most ice skating movies portray it as a frilly sport, the 2020 documentary Unbroken showed the gritty side of the athletic endeavor.
- I, Tonya (2017) Available to stream on Max. Every sport has had its share of controversies, but ice skating has essentially come to be defined by the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan incident, the true story 2017's I, Tonya is based on.
- The Ice King (2018) Available to stream on Tubi and PlutoTV. Like any sport, figure skating is not without its fair share of stories about skaters defying the odds to do what they do best.
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Dec 15, 2023 · Blades of Glory is a comedy film released in 2007. Blades of Glory, directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, made its way to the big screens in 2007, delivering laughter and ice-skating madness to audiences worldwide. The film stars Will Ferrell and Jon Heder.
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Cocky ice-skating superstar Chazz Michael Michaels Will Ferrell shocks the sports world when he teams up with pretty boy and acclaimed men's singles champion Jimmy (Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder) in BLADES OF GLORY, a veritable "Odd Couple On Ice." After Chazz butts heads with Jimmy, the two bitter rivals are banned from future competition.
- Will Speck
- Cynthia Fuchs
- Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Will Ferrell
- An Unlikely Idea Becomes A Movie Thanks to Ben Stiller
- “John Heder Broke His Ankle Early in The training.” – Craig Cox, Screenwriter
- The Making of Jimmy and Chazz
- Rewrites and Improvising
- Favorite Scenes
- We’Re Going to Skate to One Song and One Song only
- The Real World of Figure Skating
- Chazz and Jimmy Take Off as A Team
Craig Cox:We shared story credit with Busy Philipps who is a friend of ours. We grew up together in Arizona. She and I were watching a figure skating competition on TV and she was the one that initially said, “Oh, that would be funny, like a story about rival figure skaters.” Then Jeff and I kind of came up with the twist of, “Actually it would be ...
Craig Cox:[Knowing how to skate] wasn’t imperative. This is the first script we wrote together and sold, and we didn’t think about any kind of production concerns or anything like that. They actually had to learn how to do this stuff. Jon Heder broke his ankle early on in the training. It was kind of a scary moment because like, “Oh God, are they e...
Craig Cox: Our vision of Jimmy was that he basically has known nothing but skating his entire life, really has no idea how to interact with people, has had no social life. Jeff Cox: Johnny Weir, at least in terms of his style, became sort of an inspiration for Jimmy. Craig Cox: Chazz was the most unrealistic figure skater, but I did have images in ...
Jeff Cox:I don’t know who came up with this, but the Iron Lotus move was pretty inspired with the head getting decapitated. Craig Cox: In our original script the second act ended with the two of them being kidnapped by an assassin and taken to this cabin on this mountaintop to get them away from the games. They manage to wriggle out of the ropes an...
Will Ferrell:I like the smaller moments. I just loved Chazz backstage at the beginning, about to have to go and skate in the kid’s show he’s now part of–the moment where he’s alone having to put the helmet on and he’s so depressed. Those contextual things make me laugh more than anything. Craig Cox:When we saw that first routine when they skate tog...
Craig Cox:I actually don’t know [how Fergie’s “My Humps” made it into the movie]. Jeff Cox:I don’t know if that was pure Will Ferrell. There needed to be a song, but that was definitely a game-time thing. It wasn’t something that was in our script. Will Ferrell: I do remember Jon was like, “It’s so weird no one knows what it means.” It was all impr...
Craig Cox:No figure skating fan has ever got on us about anything, honestly. That would be amazing to run into someone who really took issue with it, but that’s never happened. Will Ferrell:Not one complaint. I think the world of figure skating was more than happy to have anyone pay attention to them. In fact, I just ran into Dorothy Hamill out in ...
Craig Cox:There were talks up until we were into production of like, “What’s this final moment gonna be? How’s it gonna work?” Then Ben Stiller just had that idea [of taking flight into the sky], I think probably like a day or two before they even filmed it. So that really came out of the moment. Will Ferrell:The thing that I loved that made the mo...
Mar 30, 2007 · When the macho, swaggering Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) takes to the rink, he is the rock star of the arena, leaving a trail of thrashed ice and shrieking female fans in his wake.
Mar 30, 2007 · The movie’s satirical take on competitive figure skating, from its music for gliding pas des deux (Andrea Bocelli) to the goofy absurdity of children’s ice shows in which Chazz, exiled from...
