OH BOY, MORE CAR PORN
03.20.08
Neil Marshall, who recently let the bodies hit the floor in Doomsday, has decided to do something totally unexpected.
Marshall has signed with Universal to direct "Drive," an adaptation of the James Sallis novel. Hugh Jackman is attached to play a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway car driver in heists.
What a coincidence, I was just thinking, with all the talk of 4 Fast 4 Furious, Doomsday, Death Proof, Speed Racer, Knight Rider, and Transformers recently, what we really need is a movie about cars.
"Hoss [screenwriter Hossein Amini] is a fantastic writer, and he’s written three amazing car chases in the film. He’s turned them into dramatic scenes as opposed to the usual crash, bang, wallop. I would like to be shooting it this summer." [Source]
Yeah, whatever, I’m sure it’ll be a real tear jerker. Car crashes through building. Tom and Jodie exchange meaningful glances. Bus explodes – bringing repressed memories of Tom’s child abuse to the forefront of his mind, shattering his sense of identity. Hey, here’s an idea – why don’t you just direct a car commercial?
Sidenote: Director Jon Harris is currently shooting a sequel to Marshall’s 2005 movie The Descent. The film’s working title – I shit you not: The De2cent.
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How is ‘writing’ car chase scenes even a job… I read Hoss’ IMDB page and his other credits are screenplay for kids walking to school and guy using knife and fork.
Director Jon Harris is currently shooting a sequel to Marshall’s 2005 movie The Descent. The film’s working title – I shit you not: The De2cent.
What a lack of imagination. I would have called it The DeuxCent.
I would have called it Descent 2 the electric boogaloo
… or maybe The Deucent.
Just to put in my own 2cents.
Moi Name is Hugh Jaikman.
“Director Jon Harris is currently shooting a sequel to Marshall’s 2005 movie The Descent. ”
The Decent.
They shoud just use footage of me pulling the E-brake while doing 60 is my Grandmother’s ’86 Oldmobile Cutlass Sierra.
Someone needs to shatter Neil Marshall’s pelvis off the front end of their car.
We need more hospital movies anyways.
I hear 50cent turned down the role. Something about being 25x overqualified.
I wrote a car chase scene this morning.
Car follows car really fast.
Wow, there’s another one. Holloywood here i come.
You have GOT to be shitting me.
Off topic- If y’all wanted to pool your collective Filmdrunkard Karma and make Kansas cover by 22.5 i wouldn’t be mad.
Thank you in advance,
SMB
If you look right above the car’s right side in the picture, you can see two guardian angels protecting the stuntman. Hallelujah !!!
You could kind of tell from the extras on the Decent dvd that if he’d had a big budget he might have fucked it up. And added numbers to the title. Shame, that was a good movie. Except for the part where he fucked up the last scene.
I can see them too. Praise jeebus!
Michelle, you just came up with the perfect name for the inevitable car porn parody movie
You Have GOT to Be Shifting Me
Alternate Title: See this movie and get added to the list of people who are never allowed near my children
Hey, I heard that there were going to be lots of fucking stabbings at screenings of The De2cent ? Anyone else get that e-mail…no?
As a public service, hers is a quick guide so any of you can be like Hoss and write an automotive-themed action screenplay (pick one from each column):
A) The hero will be driving…
B) The villains will be driving…
C) The soundtrack for the trailer will be…
D) Payment for your finished script to be remitted in…
By the way, producers of The De2cent are petitioning to be added to the official Step Father handbook.
How fucking scary would it be if you were sitting in a theater watching a car movie, and all of a sudden there’s a crash outside the theater and somehow the cars manage to fly into the building and crash through the screen.
I would fucking die immediately.
They should put airbag in the back of the theater seets and have them deploy when a car crashes in the movie.
And when revival theaters show ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ a real life endodontist should show up and start performing root canals.
I heard if you see this film at an actual drive in movie theatre the universe will collapse on itself.
Or maybe i read it somewhere…either way it’s fucking science.
They should have just named it "Decent," because I imagine that’s what most reactions will be. Is there a keyboard symbol for an unethusiastic shrug?
I had a deal with a local cop when The Fast & the Furious came out. I would pull up next to people who had just finished watching to movie and rev my engine. They would take off through the parking lot and he would catch and ticket them. In return, he stopped "pulling over" my sister.
She still got to blow the cop, though – right?
Well yeah, but not on the side of the road where everybody else could see it.
Damn Stone, there’s just somethings you don’t ask.
I was just standing near a Bentley the other day,
and some guy let me jerk him offand a coke-starved model tried to fellate me. True story.Sorry Bubb, it looked like you were carrying. My mistake
Bubb sets it up and Michelle uncoils for the spike. Only on the Ocho.
Damn Stone, there’s just somethings you don’t ask.
What? It’s not like I asked if she swallowed. I figured that was a given.
Honest mistake 07, but I’m packing, not carrying.
Ahh, the sister burn. Good stuff.
So you’ve met my sister too then, huh? Best you’ve ever had, right? I’ve heard that her secret is the Parkinson’s disease.
Honest mistake 07, but I’m fudge packing, not carrying. Ficksed!!
Ahh, the sister burn.
Yep. Been there. Three rounds of Penicillin and poof! No more burn.
Awww crud. I don’t do "the drugs" – this body is a temple made for fighting crime – but I was looking forward to trying some coke off the belly of the naked cub scout I had in the back seat. Dang. mmmm fudge
Damn these movie-title-thinker-uppers and their clever edginess! Or is it edgy cleverness? Either way, substituting numbers for letters is way more cool than substituting letters for numbers, which, btw, is just algebra.
VROOM! HERE COMES THE VROOM!
PUT THE THROTTLE TO THE FLOOR, PUT THE THROTTLE TO THE FLOOR!
I suppose OOO WHA AH AH A! would be replaced by a flooded car engine failing to start.
Uh, yeah. Everything that was just said? I agree.
Especially Chod, who I would totally bone.
Oh yeah, and… uh… Cars. and stuff.
If michael bay directed a car commericial it would have all of the competitor’s cars lined up in a row, side by side. The car he’s selling would race by in front of them, and as it would pass them they would blow up one after the other. He would then walk out in front of the burning wreckage and say "AWESOME, isn’t it? I’m Michael Bay and I think this car is AWESOME."
The Descent was one of the scariest things I’ve seen in years, but I’m not sure how well a sequel would do. Eh, here’s hoping.
As for Drive, wasn’t that the name of Nathan Fillion’s last, short-lived TV series? Is there any similarity beyond the name?