Drive Hard

Drive Hard (2014)

This heist is about to go into overdrive.

A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.

Date of release
2014-10-03
TMDB
4.3 / 10 (145)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Action, Comedy, Crime
Director
Brian Trenchard-Smith

Casting

Interesting facts

Drive Hard is a 2014 Australian buddy action film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and written by Chad Law, Evan Law, and Trenchard-Smith. A professional thief takes a former race car driver hostage and forces him to drive his getaway car.

Production

Brian Trenchard-Smith described the film as:

An offbeat action comedy tailored to John Cusack and Thomas Jane’s screen personas. I put them together and had some fun with the material. If audiences like Cusack and Jane they’ll enjoy seeing them spark off each other. It’s a nod towards Midnight Run (1988) and other buddy comedies with regular injections of action. It has the stunt of the near miss as opposed to the Fast of the Furious destruction.

The film was originally set in the United States and written as a vehicle for Jean-Claude Van Damme, who dropped out. Trenchard Smith says he subsequently rewrote the script:

There was a window of availability for John Cusack, so if were able to quickly retool it for him and for Australia we could have him, so that’s what I did. We changed the tone and went through the script to make considerable changes to the characters that would work much better, things the Van Damme version didn’t have at all... When you’ve got two great actors who have improvisational ability you might as well plug into it.

The film began shooting on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia on 6 June 2013. The shoot took only 18 days.

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