Martial Club On EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE is easily the best film of 2022. Hopefully it stays in theaters and the zeitgeist for a couple more months to help ensure it gets the award recognition it truly deserves. In addition to the compelling story and dynamic visuals are the engaging performances that reflect a spectrum (or multiverse) of emotions and personalities. This extends to the action/stunt performers as well which benefit greatly from the unconventional approaches of the filmmakers. The Daniels not only blend lo-fi techniques with high concepts to produce something uniquely charming, but they also sought out unusual assistance with the many fight scenes: they turned to YouTube.

Martial Club is a smaller stunt collective from California made up of brothers Andy Le, Brian Le, and friend Daniel Mah. Over on YouTube the trio use their martial arts training to recreate various combat scenes from films/games/TV, turn other movies into kung fu classics, and reveal how they choreograph fights and coordinate stunts. Though they’ve been around for a while (their channel was created in December 2011), they’re finally getting bigger recognition for their badassery thanks to work in THE PAPER TIGERS, Andy Le’s performance as Death Dealer in SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS, and now EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE.

But what was it like working on the psychedelic freakout film? Especially working with martial art legend Michelle Yeoh, cinematic icon James Hong, and veteran actor/revered stunt coordinator Ke Huy Quan? Pretty surreal in all senses of the world. The trio uploaded a video of some of their exploits (obviously spoiler alert in full effect). Be sure to follow Martial Club on YouTube, over on Instagram, and their account on Twitter.