A big-screen outing for video game series NEED FOR SPEED was recently announced with BREAKING BAD’s excellent and underrated Aaron Paul in the lead. ACT OF VALOR’s Scott Waugh will direct the first film of an expected all-new action franchise, which is expected to hopefully rival FAST & FURIOUS and is being ‘driven’ forward by Dreamworks Pictures. The supporting cast was soon rounded up with the likes of Imogen Poots, Dominic Cooper, Ramon Rodriguez, Rami Malek, Scott ‘Kid Cudi’ Mescudi, and Harrison Gilbertson.
The script from FLIGHT’s John Gatins, will focus on a local street racer (Paul) who partners with a rich and arrogant business partner friend (Cooper). He is soon double crossed and finds himself framed by his colleague and sent to prison. After his stint behind bars, he joins a New York to Los Angeles race in an effort to gain revenge, but his ex-partner learns of the scheme and puts a massive bounty on the racer’s head, forcing him to run a cross-country gauntlet of illegal racers in all manner of supercharged vehicles.
We can now confirm NEED FOR SPEED will feature the great Michael Keaton, who has just completed villain duties on Jose Padilha’s ROBOCOP reboot. He’ll play a reclusive and eccentric host of the underground supercar race, where he invites the best drivers from around the world with the event featuring a no-holds-barred set of rules.
The film will ride into cinemas on the 7th February 2014.
Source: Heat Vision
