From the director who brought us My Bloody Valentine 3D, Patrick Lussier, comes Drive Angry 3D. He said that the difference between Bloody Valentine was that it was a suspense and he wanted to do an action film in 3D. Drive Angry is pure action. He’s one of the few directors who has already completed a 3D movie (real 3D, not conversion) so you’re going to see some of the best effects and storytelling through the new dimension.
Patrick Lussier, Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, and William Fichtner
Nicolas Cage stars in the film along with Amber Heard and William Fichtner. Nic said that there’s no question that he prefers characters who raise more questions than answers. This role falls into those lines since it’s a mysterious character from Hell with some supernatural powers. His daughter was killed and they took her child so all he has left is this baby girl. That’s his drive but other than that you don’t know what’s behind him…he doesn’t do drugs but indulges in sugar every now and then.
On the director, Nic said that Patrick is a purist. This is the first time that he (Nicolas Cage) could play with 3D and he wanted to see what moves he could do and how he could change the format. With Patrick, he felt like he was in good hands and had a lot of conversations with him on the subject. There’s no secret that Nicolas Cage likes to drive and likes to drive fast so this was a great role for him. He had the same stunt guy as he did for Gone in 60 Seconds so he got to collaborate with him again.
Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard
Drive Angry 3D is an anti-hero 70s action film in 3D. They started writing the film around groundhogs day and that’s where the title comes from…you know Bill Murray’s line where he says, “don’t drive angry.” That’s apparently for the opening scene which they thought of first and built the rest of the movie from that. Amber Heard said that the movie is “fast cars, big guns, and fist fights” which is what attracted her to the film but then noted, “but maybe that’s the Texas in me.” William wasn’t in muscle cars as much as his co-stars but he kept mentioning a hydrogen tanker so I’m really curios to see those scenes now. He made it a point to say that this film is wild and fast.
This film comes out February 11, 2011 which means it’s opening for Valentine’s Day! This is obviously for the ladies because the bumper sticker on the back of Nicolas Cage’s car read: “I Brake 4 Pussy.”
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Lionsgate presented their newest adaptation of a graphic novel called RED. RED stands for Retired Extremely Dangerous and it looks hilarious. It’s a group of great actors who look like they’re just having a fun time on camera. It stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, and Richard Dreyfuss. Isn’t that an amazing cast? Bruce Willis commented that, “I think 75 movie stars are in RED” so look out for a bunch of cameos. Warren Ellis, who wrote the original graphic novel story, said that the studio bought the rights to do an adaptation, not a translation so he told them to go have fun with it. His role was to stay out of the way and collect his check. Cully Hamner, who did the graphic novel’s illustrations, said that the movie was made broader for the audiences which makes sense for a movie. However, when he visited the set, he saw a bunch of the RED books laying around so for him that showed high respect.
The Expendables is Sylvester Stallone’s idea of going out with a bang. He admitted that he messed up with Rocky V so he made Rocky Balboa to end it right. That worked, so he thought he’d end off Rambo too…and that worked. So now he’s just greedy and going for the big finale with The Expendables…and when I say big, I mean big! This movie stars almost all of the top action heroes you can think of: Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, David Zayas, Terry Crews, Mikey Rourke, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Sylvester Stallone himself. As you can see, this is a man’s man movie full of manly men. Testosterone to the max…no estrogen allowed…at least for the panel at Comic-Con. Terry Crews said that it’s the “Manliest movie ever made.”
