Stewart Bethune
Stewart Bethune is a former location manager turned into production manager who worked with Helen Pollak as Production Manager on Star Trek Beyond. [1]
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Bethune attended the University of Calgary between 1978 and 1983 where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science and economics. During this time, he worked as skier/model for television and print ads such as Lexus, Panorama Ski Resort and Via Rail. [2] Bethune's first steps in the entertainment industry include acting in a supporting role in the television drama A Letter to Three Wives (1985, with Hagan Beggs and Karen Austin), working as production assistant on The Journey of Natty Gann (1985, with Ray Wise, Matthew Faison and Hagan Beggs, stunts by Paula Moody and music by James Horner), and working as third assistant director on The Climb (1986, starring Bruce Greenwood).
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bethune worked as location manager on projects including the television movie Vanishing Act (1986, with Graham Jarvis), the television series Disneyland (1986) and Airwolf (1987), the television drama Deep Dark Secrets (1987), Distant Thunder (1988, with Kerrie Keane), Who's Harry Crumb? (1989, with Eve Smith), Bird on a Wire (1990, with Jeff Corey, John Pyper-Ferguson, Clyde Kusatsu and Maria Leone), and White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994, music by John Debney).
Specialized in wilderness films, Bethune started to work as unit manager for the official film of the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988. Further work as unit manager/production manager include Broken Badges (1990), Leaving Normal (1992, with Brett Cullen), Needful Things (1993, with W. Morgan Sheppard), Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995), Alaska (1996), Firestorm (1998), The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998-1999), The 13th Warrior (1999), Along Came a Spider (2001, with Anton Yelchin and Billy Burke), Prozac Nation (2001), Snow Dogs (2002, with Nichelle Nichols), and Reign of Fire (2002, with Alice Krige and Alexander Siddig).
Bethune also worked as production manager on X2 (2003, directed by Bryan Singer and with Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Bruce Davison), Catwoman (2004), Fantastic Four (2005, produced by Ralph Winter and Stan Lee), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, with Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Kelsey Grammer, with Shohreh Aghdashloo, Chelah Horsdal, Aaron Stanford, Julian Christopher and John Pyper-Ferguson), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007, with Doug Jones and Zach Grenier), The Incredible Hulk (2008, with Peter Mensah), and X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, with Patrick Stewart).
More recently, Bethune worked as production manager on The A-Team (2010, with Maury Sterling, Alex Madison, Ben Bray, Jimmy Ortega and Dwight Schultz), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011, with Simon Pegg and produced by J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk and Jeffrey Chernov), G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013, with Dwayne Johnson and Joe Chrest), and Tomorrowland (2015, written and produced by Damon Lindelof, produced by Jeffrey Chernov, music by Michael Giacchino and production design by Scott Chambliss).
Stewart Bethune is also the only Production Manager who has worked on three different productions where three stunt performers were killed on-set. The thriller Firestorm (1998), The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998-1999), and Deadpool 2 (2018), where two stunt performers, Keith Perepelkin, Joi Harris and stunt coordinator Marc Akerstream all died. He was not charged in any of deaths.