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Nicolas Cage to film Drive Angry in Shreveport.Filming: 2009 Early 2010 in Louisiana.If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't lie 2010.The latest, "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," hits the festival circuit beginning with Telluride before going on to Venice and Toronto. The director, who got his feature start editing horror movies for Wes Craven, last directed "My Bloody Valentine 3D," which grossed $51 million domestically this year.įor the CAA-repped Cage, "Angry" is the third collaboration with Nu Image/Millenium. "Angry" will be the first foray into 3D for Nu Image/Millenium and marks a return to the format for Lussier. The vendetta/rescue spins out of control as the chase gets bloodier by the mile, leaving bodies strewn along the highway.ĭanny Dimbort, Trevor Short, Avi Lerner and Boaz Davidson are executive producing for Nu Image/Millennium, which is planning to begin production in April in Louisiana the company has a new $10 million studio in Shreveport, La. Written by Lussier and Todd Farmer, the story centers on a man (Cage) driven by rage who is chasing the people who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby. Michael De Luca is producing with Adam Fields. The actor has signed to star in "Drive Angry," a revenge action movie that Patrick Lussier will direct for Nu Image/Millenium Films. "Drive Angry" is rated R for strong brutal violence, grisly images, graphic sexual content, nudity and language running time: 104 minutes.Nicolas Cage is getting the 3D treatment. By visiting our site, you confirm that you are 18+ years old.
Mock him for his bad choices if you will, but consider this: Who else could have made this work, or would even want to? MOVIE NUDITY / HD VIDEO / FULL FRONTAL / BUTT / TOPLESS / SEX / 2011. Heard sets herself up as a Megan Fox with talent.Īnd Cage? He delivers. The script is just snappy enough to get by, propped up by creative uses of the F-Bomb. The 3-D hurls bullets and cars and bodies and car parts and body parts at us, to comic effect. He's the Devil's Right Hand Man, and with him veteran character actor William Fitchner ("The Perfect Storm") takes his place at the table that includes Anthony Hopkins and Alan Rickman - a player whose villains are the perfect balance for the hero.Įditor-turned-co-writer and director Patrick Lussier ("My Bloody Valentine") beats us to death with this movie, a picture that, frankly, had me going "Yeah, I get the idea" at the 45-minute mark. And he's being chased by a supernatural spree killer in a business suit, "The Accountant." He's chasing the cult leader who calls himself "The Messiah of the Next Age" (Billy Burke). "Gimme one reason I shouldn't shoot you in th' face," she drawls. His cohort in this odyssey is the butt-kicking waitress Piper, played by Amber Heard in a career-making tough-girl turn. Make your own "What's the difference?" joke here because I'm above that. Milton has left Hell for a trek across Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. The sort of movie that makes you say "What was that?" And "Why am I driving a Kia Soul?" It's the sort of gonzo orgy of violence, pithy profanity and sex that the movies used to deliver in the golden age of the American muscle car.
Even with the extra 3 bucks or whatever per ticket it made less than JONAH HEX did in its first weekend, and less than half what Nic Cage’s last movie, SEASON OF THE. The gunplay is funny in this "Ghost Rider is Gone in 60 Seconds" mashup.Ĭage stars as John Milton - a pause while English majors guffaw - a dead man who busts out of Hell in a '65 Buick Riviera, hunts down the cult that killed his daughter and plans to sacrifice his granddaughter on the next full moon in a '69 Dodge Charger, arrives at the climax with a 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS and rides off into the sunset. Case in point: DRIVE ANGRY 3D, which debuted at 9 at the box office this weekend, and made it in the record books as the lowest moneymaker for a wide release 3D movie ever.
"Drive Angry" is a very entertaining B-, C- or D-movie, an over-the-top and in-your-face grindhouse gore, guns and "gun it" picture that's about epic shootouts, bone-snapping brawls, bare breasts and muscle cars. Nobody gives better value in bad movies than the sleepy-eyed Oscar winner with a gift for picking bad movies. "DRIVE ANGRY 3D" - ★★★★1/2 - Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, Billy Burke, David Morse R (strong brutal violence, grisly images, graphic sexual content, nudity and language) in general releaseĪ little respect, if you please, for His Satanic Majesty Nicolas Cage.