Next Racing Movie. . . NOT A CANOE!

I guess since "Rush" did pretty good. . .

Tom Cruse and Brad Pitt in "Go Like Hell"

Sorry if re-post. . . first I heard of it. . .

Tom Cruise is going to play Carrol Shelby?

wasn't he like 6 and a half feet tall?

they are going to have to do some pretty serious forced perspective camera work to pull this off..

Or stilts

That will be a long movie if it covers his whole life. He sued a lot of people.

"According to the Hollywood Reporter Cruse will play the driver turned ace engineer, who raced his way to victory in the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans alongside Englishman Roy Salvadori before his attention to design.

However the film will concentrate on the epic construction war between the Ford Motor Company and Italian sports car designer Enzo Ferrari.

The battle finally came to a head at the 1966 Le Mans race, with his Shelby American supporting Ford in its successful bid to win the race with a mid-engined Ford GT40."

Wonder if Pitt is playing Salvadori or Enzo?

In development on IMDB

I wonder how it will go. I am hoping they don't go all Driven and make it more like Rush.

Based on Tom Cruises' previous racing movie experience this one ought to be superb. If only Stallone would come on board to seal the deal.

"I know Bob Bondurant! He always goes to the outside" --Phil Hill (played by Cary Elwes)

I'm thinking Pitt will be Enzo.

He's already practiced up on his Italian dialect. . .

This is based on the the book "Go Like Hell" Written by A.J. Baime.

http://www.amazon.com/Go-Like-Hell-Ferrari-Battle/dp/0547336055/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387462630&sr=8-1&keywords=go+like+hell

Really well written book. My father and I really enjoyed reading it.

ummm....TC looks nothing like CS, how are they going to make that work.

In reply to trigun7469: overalls

My concern is Tommy saying 'I want to play Carroll Shelby in a movie!' Rather than saying 'I want to make a movie about Carroll Shelby.'

aussiesmg wrote: In reply to trigun7469: overalls

and stilts?

trigun7469 wrote:

aussiesmg wrote: In reply to trigun7469: overalls

and stilts?

Overheard from movie set assistant director, "Where's Mr. Cruise's milk crate?!"

I'm nervous about how it may turn out, but there's little doubt that Cruise is a car guy- I don't know of any other actor who has driven a modern F1 car- whereas he took some laps in a Red Bull.

Not a great driver, but not bad.

I wonder how many cars Tom Cruise will wreck.

trigun7469 wrote: ummm....TC looks nothing like CS, how are they going to make that work.

He looks nothig like the character he played in Interview with a Vampire.

In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid:

Everyone except the pace car?

trigun7469 wrote: ummm....TC looks nothing like CS, how are they going to make that work.

It's Hollywood! It don't matter!

Just admit we will all watch it.

914Driver wrote:

trigun7469 wrote: ummm....TC looks nothing like CS, how are they going to make that work.

He looks nothig like the character he played in Interview with a Vampire.

I sense sarcasm there, yet irony.

When the book was originally optioned in '76, Lestat was supposed to be played by Rutger Hauer.

I am a virtual cornicopia of useless movie and TV trivia, not much unlike DiNozzo from NCIS.

I'm stoked to see it. I loved "Go Like Hell" it was probably one of the better motorsport history narratives I've ever read.

I hope this turns out well.

phaze1todd wrote:

914Driver wrote:

trigun7469 wrote: ummm....TC looks nothing like CS, how are they going to make that work.

He looks nothig like the character he played in Interview with a Vampire.

I sense sarcasm there, yet irony. When the book was originally optioned in '76, Lestat was supposed to be played by Rutger Hauer. I am a virtual cornicopia of useless movie and TV trivia, not much unlike DiNozzo from NCIS.

I suddenly want to smack you in the back of the head. I don't know why.....