Watch "Need For Speed" The Movie opens in Philippines on MArch 12, 2014.
The film revolves around Tobey Marshall (“Breaking Bad's” Aaron Paul) who runs his family’s auto shop and races the underground street circuit with his buddies on weekends. Life is good but his whole world is turned upside down when he is sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison he spends the next two years thinking about one thing: vengeance. While questioning the morals to which he has always adhered, he is nevertheless determined to bring down his enemies … no matter what the cost.
With “Need for Speed,” Waugh wanted to pay tribute to the great car movies from the 1960s and ‘70s by making a film in the same vein as “Bullitt” (1968), “The French Connection” (1971) and “Vanishing Point” (1971) where the car stunts were authentic and executed without any visual effects and looking as realistic as they did in the game.
Waugh explains, “Capturing the action sequences in the camera works on a couple levels. First, there’s an innate trigger in humans when we know something is not real, no matter how good it may look. And on a visceral level you can tell when an actor is in a real environment.”
He continues, “We went back out on the road, travelling at high speeds and hanging out the side of the car to film this. I wanted the audience to really feel what it’s like to drive 230 miles per hour.”
The end product is a unique perspective not often seen in cinema where the audience actually becomes the driver behind the wheel, something that is sure to appeal to fans of The Need for Speed who were drawn to it for the same reason in the first place – the authenticity.
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