Corrie boss Iain MacLeod has teased a huge stunt could be on the way, with a rooftop sequence tying in with the exit of Kelly Neelan.
Millie Gibson quit the role recently after three years on the ITV soap, with it teased she had a huge exit storyline ahead.
Now, soap boss Iain has hinted at "danger" and "explosive" scenes, as the cast have been filming scenes for a big week on the cobbles using "cinematic" technology.
Hinting that they've been able to film dramatic moments without the need for stunt doubles or without endangering cast members, Iain told The Mirror and other press that the cast have been filming "high stakes" scenes surrounding actress Millie's departure.
Suggesting secrets and lies will be exposed in the episodes, Iain revealed the time had come for Gary Windass' killer past to explode. He explained: "Gary has to retrace his steps back into the forest of doom where he once fought for his life with Kelly's dad Rick Neelan.
"So yeah, it's a really brilliant kind of tying up, slash full stop on that story that began with that desperate act from Gary all those years ago. At times we've toyed with blowing it all up and revealing the full secret to everybody and always just fell shy of that slightly but as I say, finding ourselves in a position where we're having to exit Kelly, it just means it's kind of now or never.
"We've done something really special and certainly among the most impressive things that I've worked on in my varied career and so, I'm very excited by it." Speaking about the specially filmed sequence, he went on: "We've decided to go full on. The centrepiece of the week is a sequence that we've shot using technology that's more commonly found in things like The Mandalorian, or they use a slightly larger version of this in a lot of the Avengers movies.
"In this full volume wall which is relatively new to me, essentially it's like a very new fandangled version of what they would have called green screen, or back projection back in the early days of the talkies. But basically, it means you can put your actors anywhere that you can imagine so you can essentially design a 3D world.
"So what we've done is create this incredible rooftop sequence with a source of twinkling Mancunian cityscape behind it, so that we can do things that you could never normally do in a location shoot. You can put real actors in what appears to be very real danger without using stunt performance. You can have the camera behave in a way that it can't do in the real world.
"So we created this incredibly cinematic sequence at the centrepiece of this week, which I'm incredibly excited about. I've only seen the rushes and it already looks incredible. So there's that.
"The gist of the week is, we all know, and it leaves me with a heavy heart to say, but we all know Kelly's leaving the show. So we thought well, actually, the fact that Millie is going and that therefore Kelly is going allows us to go really big and do something incredibly high stakes, to maybe have some characters step on all these landmines that we've buried for them over the years and have them go off in one cataclysmic explosion.
"So we've really thrown everything at this week to try and bring out all the big secrets, lies, reveals, and schemes. As I say, it's literally got very high stakes and jeopardy, it's visually incredibly impressive. I don't think any continuing drama, as far as I know, has ever used this technological before. I think we will be the first to do it. So it's got that kind of truly cinematic feel to it. It's funny, it's got the party to end all parties in the middle of it.
"It's character pulled full of young love and it's just a great all-round week of Coronation Street. I feel immensely excited to see it. We've almost wrapped on it and I've resisted the urge to go and trawl through the rushes but I have seen a bit of it and it's incredible and very exciting. So yeah, its good stuff."
Coronation Street airs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV and ITV Hub.
