Filmmaker Lucas Frison has turned the plot of his feature-length film into reality as he organized an attempt to break the world record for longest ball hockey game on Friday.
Frison is the director of Talent, a highschool comedy about 18-year-old hockey fan, Kaylee Stevens. The movie follows Stevens, played by actress Natalie Lazarou, as she fundraises money for an after-school arts program.
“She decides to combine her love of hockey with a fundraising idea and finds this world record,” Lazarou said on set at École Monseigneur de Laval.
The plot of the movie centres around Stevens organizing and attempting the world record for longest ball hockey game.
When Frison was developing the script, he was struck by another idea.
“I thought, ‘Hey, it would be really cool if my lead character in the film… was attempting to break a world record’,” he said.
“[And] then if we actually try to break the record when we shoot the movie.”
Frison organized a 62-hour long ball hockey game for the last weekend in July. If completed, it will be recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest of its kind.
The previous record is set at 60 hours.
Participants like Josh Tuffs said the record attempt is ambitious but worth the effort.
“It’s not like you’re the world’s fastest man or woman, you know what I mean? But it’s just cool to say you did it,” he said.
Players rotate through hour-long shifts during the day and four hour-long shifts through the night. The record attempt started at 6 a.m. on July 29 and is scheduled to end at 8 p.m. on July 31.
While the real-life record attempt is separate from the movie, Frison said he will use some footage from the hockey game in the final cut of Talent.
“It’s another incentive for these crazy guys who are playing for 62 hours. Like, ‘Hey, you get to be in a movie too,'” he said.
Talent is scheduled for release in May 2017.
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