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Mike Knights

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Mike Knights
The exploding helicopter was a practical Special Effect. Moving rotor blades would have got in the way so were added in post. The practical stunt of a motor bike jumping on a collision course was done as a practical then the two plates were merged by the VFX team to provide the complete mid-air collision.
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Mike Knights is known for Host (2020), The Lost Pirate Kingdom (2021) and Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley (2018).
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    Known for

    Host (2020)
    Host
    6.5
    • Special Effects
    • 2020
    The Lost Pirate Kingdom (2021)
    The Lost Pirate Kingdom
    6.6
    TV Series
    • Special Effects
    Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley (2018)
    Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley
    8.0
    TV Movie
    • Special Effects
    • 2018
    Diljit Dosanjh in Sajjan Singh Rangroot (2018)
    Sajjan Singh Rangroot
    7.3
    • Special Effects
    • 2018

    Credits

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    Special Effects

    • Tehran
      • special effects technician
      • Completed
      • 2025
    • Stand Your Ground
      • special effects coordinator, weapons master
      • Post-production
      • 2025
    • Kat Kumar in Lost Women Spies (2024)
      Lost Women Spies
      TV Series
      • special effects supervisor
      • 2024
    • Dermot Mulroney, Maggie Grace, and Minka Kelly in Blackwater Lane (2024)
      Blackwater Lane
      4.5
      • special effects technician
      • 2024
    • Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff in Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (2024)
      Bade Miyan Chote Miyan
      3.8
      • special effects coordinator
      • 2024
    • Peter DeSouza-Feighoney, Lewis Santer, Marcus Massey, Ryan Oliva, and Eddy MacKenzie in Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (2024)
      Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
      4.7
      • special effects coordinator
      • 2024
    • Joseph Millson, Paul Marlon, and Rebecca Scott in War Blade (2024)
      War Blade
      4.0
      • special effects supervisor
      • 2024
    • Olga Kurylenko in Boudica: Queen of War (2023)
      Boudica: Queen of War
      4.2
      • special effects supervisor
      • 2023
    • One Ranger (2023)
      One Ranger
      4.9
      • special effects supervisor
      • 2023
    • Crispian Belfrage, Mark Strange, Danny Darren, Shane Hart, and Lee Wakefield in B.R.I (2023)
      B.R.I
      7.9
      • special effects supervisor
      • weapons master
      • 2023
    • Consecration (2023)
      Consecration
      5.2
      • special effects technician
      • 2023
    • Wolves of War (2022)
      Wolves of War
      4.0
      • special effects supervisor
      • 2022
    • Midnight Peepshow (2022)
      Midnight Peepshow
      3.9
      • special effects technician
      • weapons master
      • 2022
    • Tara Sutaria and Tiger Shroff in Heropanti 2 (2022)
      Heropanti 2
      2.3
      • special effects supervisor
      • 2022
    • Aseq (2022)
      Aseq
      5.5
      • special effects supervisor
      • 2022
    • Finding Wilson (2022)
      Finding Wilson
      Short
      • special effects supervisor
      • 2022
    • Chandini Wilson, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Aakash Shukal, Kathi DeCouto, Judy Kriz, Mitra Bhattacharya, Jared Gerschwitz, Duncan Padfield, Anne Padfield, Rachel Bryan, Francesca Marie Williams, Lorena Ximena, David Paul Perlmutter, Crispin Jamie, Andrew Perry, Aaron Beha, Dave Watts, Jamie Ellis, Juliet Burr, Lenore Fiorenbcelli, John Raggett, Sid Makkar, Firuzi Khan, Clive Payne, Adam Day, Sohail Sen, Sudhanshu Dube, Emma Galliano, Shawn Dixon, Mirabel Stuart, George Dawson, Nyra Banerjee, Jamie Chrispin, Collette Creary-Myers, Lucas Martinez, Nilesh Navnath Gavand, Daniel Damian Kapuscinski, Ayvianna Snow, Swaylee Loughnane, Billy Totham, Pierce Tomlinson, Travis Booth-Millard, Sara Bodinar, Karthik Ramalingam, Kirsty Sawyer, Mitch Wicking, Sam Bhattacharjee, Hakeem Azeez, and Tony Richardson in Barun Rai and the House on the Cliff (2021)
      Barun Rai and the House on the Cliff
      4.2
      • special effects (as Mike Night)
      • 2021

    Additional Crew

    • Save Luna (2021)
      Save Luna
      7.7
      Video Game
      • armourer
      • 2021
    • Countdown to Murder (2013)
      Countdown to Murder
      7.5
      TV Series
      • armourer
      • 2013

    Art Department

    • Dashcam (2021)
      Dashcam
      4.5
      • Weapon master
      • 2021

    Videos5

    Helicopter crash as part of a plate shot
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    Helicopter crash as part of a plate shot
    Tank firing with recoil
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    Tank firing with recoil
    Tank firing with recoil
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    Tank firing with recoil
    Very large practical ground explosion
    Demo Reel 0:35
    Very large practical ground explosion
    Moving car blown off the ground explosion - normal and slow motion
    Demo Reel 0:28
    Moving car blown off the ground explosion - normal and slow motion
    Propane, pyro & Aircannon cave explosion
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    Propane, pyro & Aircannon cave explosion

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