Nicolas Cage Makes a New Car Movie - in 3D

HOLLYWOOD, California — As you read this, somewhere in darkest Louisiana, a production company lured there by aggressive state subsidies is making a car movie starring Nicolas Cage. No it's not called Gone In 59 Seconds or even Gone In 61 Seconds. But it is called Drive Angry and promises to be a high-velocity, hallucinogenic, blood-spurting, old-school, hard R-rated exploitation film throwing body parts (both sheet metal and flesh) at you in glorious 3D.

In an interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub of Collider.com last January, producer Mike De Luca described Drive Angry as "[K]ind of like hyper-pulp, just kind of blood-drenched, heavy, heavy car chase action that if you're a fan of early Shane Black scripts, if you're a fan of from the '70s, Two Lane Blacktop or Vanishing Point and you're a fan of Dusk 'Til Dawn or Sin City, this kind of like glorious exhilaration of pulp movie-making."

The plot is just as absurd as you might expect in a film that prides itself on its grounding in pulp. As reported by ShockTillYouDrop.com, according to Nu Image/Millennium Films, which is backing the movie, the plot goes like this:

"Drive Angry stars Nicolas Cage as Milton, a hardened felon who has broken out for one last chance at redemption. Hell bent on stopping a vicious cult of fanatics who murdered his daughter, he has three days to stop them before they sacrifice his infant granddaughter beneath a full moon. Milton must use his anger to go beyond all human limits in order to save his last connection with humanity.

He's joined by Piper, a young sexy-smart waitress who liberates her ex-boyfriend's cherry red muscle car in order to help Milton. Now, the two of them are hot on the trail of the charismatic Jonah King and his murderous followers. King will throw every one of the faithful under the wheels of Milton's turbocharged Black '71 Challenger, to fulfill his destiny and unleash hell on earth."

And really, who can't relate to that? Happens to us every day.

Directing Drive Angry is Patrick Lussier, the auteur behind the subtly nuanced My Bloody Valentine last year and 2007's intricately provocative White Noise 2: The Light. Joining the always manic, and recently foreclosed upon, Nicolas Cage in the cast are Kaley Cuoco (from TV's The Big Bang Theory), Tom Atkins (who played Lt. Diehl on The Rockford Files if you're that old) and David Morse (who is in every single movie ever made). Lussier and his frequent collaborator Todd Farmer wrote the script.

Lussier is using real 3D cameras to do the filming and not some sort of conversion process. "The problem with conversion is that it tends to be a little pop-up-book," he told MTV. "For Drive Angry, we've got these great cars in the film — a '69 Charger, a '71 Chevelle — and the lines of those cars, to try and post-convert, you'd never get all of the depth and the beauty of those machines. Shooting in 3D, you get all the angles of the cars and you feel like you're in it with Nic Cage behind the wheel."

The presence of the 1968-'70 Dodge Charger in the film continues Hollywood's 43-year crusade — from Bullitt in 1968 through The Dukes of Hazzard, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, The Fast and the Furious films and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof — to destroy every last one of those cars.

If everything goes more or less right, expect to put on your 3D glasses next February 11 when Drive Angry opens throughout North America.

Source: Indiacar.com Source : http://www.insideline.com (4/20/2010)