Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe and his ex-stunt double David Holmes team up for an HBO Documentary on the latter’s journey

Trained gymnast and professional stuntman of ‘The Boy Who Lived,’ David Holmes has been working for the Harry Potter franchise, since its very first film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone. He was eleven. For the next ten years, Holmes and Daniel Radcliffe worked together, grew as close as brothers, before the former got mortally wounded while doing a stunt for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One in 2009.

The accident did not claim his life, but it left him paralysed below his chest and confined to a wheelchair forever. However, that was neither able to corrode Holmes and Radcliffe’s friendship, nor was it able to conquer the prodigious professional’s indomitable spirit. Holmes fought, with the full support of his family and close ones, including Daniel Radcliffe. After all, battling a neck injury that has permanently altered your spinal cord, as well as life, is no mean feat.

Radcliffe and Holmes had previously worked together during the COVID pandemic in 2020, to start their podcast, Cunning Stunts, that voice the harsh as well as illuminating truths about stunt artists. But their latest collaborative endeavour has the Harry Potter protagonist both on-screen and off-screen. The documentary is set to feature real-life, personal footage, mainly behind-the-scenes, along with intimate interviews with Holmes’ friends, family, and work crew.

David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived is set to release mid November this year, and is directed by Dan Hartley. The producers include, long-time work friend cum family, Amy Stares, Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, and Vanessa Davies. Other than Dan Hartley, Sue Latimer, Sarah Spahovic, and David Holmes, the film also boasts of Radcliffe as an executive producer.