We may have the mother of all car chase films on our hands. Today we learn of a film that has 100 pages of the script dedicated to the chase, we get the scoop from our friends at
McTiernan is looking to make a comeback with his bread and butter – the action-thriller. He’s set to direct Karl Urban in the low-budget flick RUN, which features a 100-page car chase in its script. Now if you use the old conversion chart that says one script page equals one minute of footage, that’s a 100-minute car chase (by comparison, PREDATOR was only 107 minutes). There is a plot but with a 100-page car chase, do you really care? Filming is set to begin on RUN this August.
I like car chase scenes if they are done well. They require a lot of action to stay interesting and the hilly streets on San Francisco are usually a good place to get that. My favorite car chase scenes are in the Blues Brothers. I get great joy when police cars are piled up 20 feet high, cars are driven through a mall and gay Nazis plummet to their death. This is fuel driven action!
Die Hard and Predator are legendary action films. I hope McTiernan is able to bring that level of awesome to this project. To have predator level awesome in a car chase movie would certainly make it a glorious experience. By the sounds of it the whole movie may take place in the car, Run indeed.
