New Action Trailers — Week of August 24 – 30, 2026
Ghost in the Cell — Official Trailer
Trailer released: August 24, 2026
Well Go USA dropped the first trailer for Joko Anwar's Ghost in the Cell, a supernatural prison thriller staged almost entirely inside a single high-security facility. For the stunt department that setting means close-quarters work: corridor and cell-block brawls in Indonesian fight grammar, improvised weapons and heavy blood and gore gags rather than vehicle or exterior set pieces. The department sheet is the tell — fight choreographer Reza Hilman leads the stunts, backed by assistant fight choreographers Totong Ardianto, Macho Hungan and Rekki Illahi and an unusually large seven-man sling-and-rigging team, which points to wire-assisted yanks, drops and body-throws for the entity kills, where performers have to sell being hurled by something that isn't there. Several named stunt doubles confirm doubled falls and jumps on top of the fight doubling. In theaters October 2, 2026. Stunt coordinator credit pending on IMDb; no 2nd unit director credited.
IMDb: Ghost in the Cell (2026) · Trailer: YouTube
The Gentlemen: Season 2 — Official Trailer
Trailer released: August 24, 2026
Netflix released the season two trailer for Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen, and the stunt package has visibly widened. Paul Kennington and Mark Mottram share stunt coordinator duties this season, with Mottram also credited as fight coordinator and Tilly Rose Kennington as stunt department coordinator — a split that matches Ritchie's house style of brawling and gunplay over spectacle. The new element is vehicles: Martin Ivanov is credited as stunt driving double for Theo James across three episodes, which season one did not require, and the move to the Italian lakes brings speedboat work and its attendant water-safety and boat-to-boat rigging on top of the English country-estate fight material. Crispin and Alex Layfield coordinated season one only. All eight episodes stream September 3, 2026. 2nd unit director for season two pending on IMDb.
IMDb: The Gentlemen (2024– ) · Trailer: YouTube
City of Blood — Official Trailer
Trailer released: August 24, 2026
Hulu debuted the trailer for City of Blood, an eight-part German-language vampire thriller set in a climate-collapsed, dome-divided Berlin and crewed out of Prague. The cut sells world and stakes more than set pieces, but the credits carry the stunt story: Josef Jelínek coordinates with Jindřich Vlček credited separately as fight choreographer, a division that signals sustained human-versus-vampire combat choreography rather than incidental scrapping. Jindřich Klaus is credited as stunt driver, confirming at least one vehicle sequence, and Dayana Belskaya doubles Lea Drinda, which points to the leads carrying the physical action themselves. Worth noting for anyone tracking the market that this is horror-thriller with a full fight package rather than straight action. Streaming September 16, 2026 on Hulu in the US and Disney+ internationally. No 2nd unit director credited.
IMDb: City of Blood (2026) · Trailer: YouTube
Drive Through Fire — Official Trailer
Trailer released: August 25, 2026
Quiver Distribution released the trailer for Drive Through Fire, an Oklahoma-shot trafficking-ring thriller from directors Lauren Bond and Jim Carlson, with Michael Jai White as the investigating detective rather than the man behind the wheel. The stunt package on IMDb is a two-name department and it says a lot about the scale: Justin Parks is credited stunt coordinator and Cale Schultz stunt performer, and both are also in the cast — Parks as Jesse, Schultz as Ray. A coordinator carrying an on-camera role is the standard economy of a regional indie, where the same body does the gag and plays the part. The rideshare-driver premise puts the load on vehicle-interior and pursuit work plus gunplay and squibs rather than rigging or fire, which fits a unit that size. Digital and on demand September 11, 2026 via Quiver. No 2nd unit director credited; fight choreographer, stunt driver and stunt double credits pending on IMDb.
IMDb: Drive Through Fire · Trailer: YouTube
Gandhari — Official Trailer
Trailer released: August 25, 2026
Netflix India dropped the trailer for Devashish Makhija’s Gandhari, with Taapsee Pannu as a mother working her way toward an abducted daughter. The action is run by Brahim Chab, the Moroccan-French action director whose grammar runs to grounded, impact-based striking and grappling rather than wire-assisted fantasy — a useful signal for anyone reading the trailer’s hand-to-hand beats. Basid Noora carries a triple credit as assistant action director, stunt actor and stunt performer, and Geeta Tandon is on the picture as a stunt double, credited without a named subject. Tandon on the call sheet is the tell that the harder contact work is being doubled even on a performer-forward package. The fictional small-town setting points to practical location work — foot pursuits and terrain — over stage rigging. Streaming September 3, 2026 on Netflix. No 2nd unit director credited.
IMDb: Gandhari (2026) · Trailer: YouTube
Haiwaan — Official Trailer
Trailer released: August 25, 2026
Zee Music Company released the trailer for Priyadarshan’s Haiwaan, the Hindi remake of Oppam, with Saif Ali Khan as the blind protagonist and Akshay Kumar as the man hunting him. Two credited action directors — Stunt Silva and Ravi Thyagarajan — is a real budgeted fight package rather than incidental scuffling, and Thyagarajan doubles as associate director, a crossover credit worth noting for anyone tracking action people moving into the director’s chair. The premise is a specific choreography problem: a sightless lead means the fights have to be built on non-visual cueing, contact-and-react timing and environmental awareness, which changes the beat structure and the eyeline work from standard mass action. Releases September 11, 2026 in India; IMDb lists Sony Liv as the only distributor. No 2nd unit director credited.
IMDb: Haiwaan (2026) · Trailer: YouTube
The Fix — Final Trailer
Trailer released: August 26, 2026
Briarcliff Entertainment released the final trailer for Guy Moshe's The Fix, with Liam Neeson, Zachary Levi, Titus Welliver and Wes Chatham on a team operation into Tehran. The stunt department is the largest of the week by headcount: David Castillo is credited supervising stunt coordinator, with Kevin Scott credited supervising stunt coordinator in pre-production and Lazare Vardukadze running the Georgia unit — a three-tier structure that says the action was designed months before principal and then handed to a local unit to execute. Roughly thirty Tbilisi-based stunt performers fill out the roster, which points to crowd-scale gunplay and multi-man room clearing rather than one-on-one fight grammar. Three separate stunt doubles are credited for Neeson (Oliver Keller, Oliver Kelly, Mark Vaneslow) and assistant stunt coordinator Tom Crisp also doubles Wes Chatham, so the leads are being carried through sustained physical work rather than isolated hits. A special effects supervisor (Jens Döldissen) plus a dedicated armorer on the Mississippi unit (Janette Luttrell) confirms practical squib and pyro work across two shooting territories. Rated R for strong bloody violence; in theaters September 11, 2026. Second unit cinematographer Saar Mizrahi is credited but no 2nd unit director is listed — credit pending on IMDb.
IMDb: The Fix (2026) · Trailer: YouTube
12 12 12 — Date Announcement Teaser
Teaser released: August 26, 2026
Apple TV put out a short date-announcement teaser for 12 12 12, Kari Skogland's eight-part heist series with Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan, shot in Budapest, Sopron and Texas. The footage is brief, but the credited department is the real signal and it is a heavy one: Paul Jennings is supervising stunt coordinator and also 2nd unit director, Nicolas Bosc is stunt coordinator and also 2nd unit director, and Leo Costa and Roni Rodrigues are credited as additional 2nd unit directors — four action-side unit directors is a staffing level you only reach on a show carrying sustained action across multiple countries. Balázs Lengyel is credited fight coordinator separately from the stunt coordinators, which means hand-to-hand is being built as its own discipline; Joe Kovalik Jr. is assistant stunt coordinator and Lilla Nemeth is stunt department coordinator. Two named stunt riggers (Róbert Kovalik, Gábor Pesta) plus supervising armourer Zoltán Bus with key armourer Péter Behan point to descender or wire work into the vault and a live blanks-and-squibs package. On the vehicle side, György Kökényesi is stunt driver and Aaron D. Parker is stunt driving double for Mackie, and Dornan carries three doubles (Tibor Kriskó, Péter Sokorai, Miklós Szentváry-Lukács). Premieres November 13, 2026 on Apple TV with the first two episodes, then weekly through December 25.
IMDb: 12 12 12 (2026) · Teaser: YouTube
Operation Tral — Official Teaser
Teaser released: August 26, 2026
Goodwill Entertainments dropped the 73-second teaser for Ratheesh Vega's Operation Tral, with Jayasurya as an NIA officer investigating a fatal convoy ambush in Kashmir, released simultaneously in Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. The premise puts a vehicle-destruction set piece at the centre of the picture rather than a fight package — convoy ambush work means overturned and burning transport, heavy squib coverage and pyro timed around performers in vehicles, which is a rigging-and-safety problem before it is a choreography one. Worth flagging for anyone tracking the South Indian market that counter-terror procedurals at this tier usually run a single action director with a modest performer pool. IMDb lists a December 2026 release. Stunt and action-director credits pending on IMDb; no 2nd unit director credited.
IMDb: Operation Tral (2026) · Teaser: YouTube (Malayalam)
Reawaken Man: The Red — Main Trailer
Trailer released: August 30, 2026
Lotte Entertainment released the main trailer for Baek Jong-yeol's Reawaken Man: The Red, a webtoon adaptation with Koo Kyo-hwan as a man who revives 72 hours after every death and comes back harder each time. That premise is a stunt-department problem before it is a story one: the picture has to stage the same performer being killed repeatedly and in different ways, which means a sustained programme of hard-impact work, body hits and ratchet or wire pulls rather than a handful of set pieces. The trailer's fight coverage is staged in a hotel, a church and an underground parking garage — three confined, hard-surface environments that push the work toward padded floor contact, wall and rail hits and tight camera choreography — plus urban vehicle work. IMDb's Stunts section for the title currently lists a single name, stunt rigger Yoo Si Jung, and one credited rigger on a picture built this way is the tell that there is a real wire package underneath. Opens September 30, 2026 in Korea in 2D, ScreenX and 4DX. Stunt coordinator, fight choreographer and 2nd unit director credits pending on IMDb; Korean crew listings likewise carry no 무술감독 credit yet.
IMDb: Reawaken Man: The Red (2026) · Trailer: YouTube
#King100 — First Glimpse
Teaser released: August 29, 2026
T-Series Telugu put out the first glimpse for Ra Karthik's #King100 with Nagarjuna Akkineni and Tabu, timed to Nagarjuna's birthday. The footage itself is star-elevation imagery rather than sustained fighting, so there is little to read off the cut — but the credit list is the story. IMDb lists three separate action choreographers on the picture: Dinesh Kasi, Prithivi and Real Sathish. Three action units on one Telugu commercial actioner is the standard shape for a film carrying distinct mass-fight set pieces built by different hands, usually split by location or by fight grammar, and it is worth logging for anyone tracking who is staffing the Telugu action market. No stunt coordinator, rigger, stunt driver or named stunt double credited — pending on IMDb, as is any 2nd unit director. Announced for December 24, 2026 from Annapurna Studios; IMDb currently carries the title as in production with a January 15, 2027 date, so the release is not locked.
IMDb: #King100 · Teaser: YouTube
Secret Soldier — Trailer
Trailer released: August 29, 2026
Tips Telugu released the trailer for Akki Viswanadha Reddy's Secret Soldier, a spy thriller previously titled China Peace, off an August 29 launch event. The package reads small: handgun and rifle gunplay and close-quarters work rather than a vehicle, fire or rigging programme, which is the usual shape for an independent Telugu spy picture at this budget tier. Worth noting for anyone tracking credit hygiene in the market that neither IMDb nor the production's own long credit block in the trailer description names an action director — on a picture selling itself on action beats, that is a gap rather than an absence of work. In cinemas September 18, 2026 from Moon Light Dreams. Stunt coordinator, fight choreographer, stunt driver, rigger and stunt double credits all pending on IMDb; no 2nd unit director credited.
IMDb: Secret Soldier (2026) · Trailer: YouTube
