Nicolas Cage, you’re the only one that can make this work.
A thirty second trailer for “Drive Angry 3D” surfaced online in the midst of its platform at the San Diego Comic Con. The plot concerns a man pried from the clutches of Hell to find the gang that murdered his daughter and kidnapped her infant child for supernatural purposes. You can go a couple of ways with that, but director Patrick Lussier’s direction appears to be “posturing, explosions, camp.” Which seems perfectly suited for Cage, really.
The fans at the Con were apparently treated to a different, two-minute sizzle reel which showcased the film’s over-the-top gore and supernatural aspects, though according to “My Bloody Valentine 3D” director Lussier, via i09, “We’re lovers of the great 70s car movies – Vanishing Point, Duel – and we wanted to do something like that. We wanted to make sure the cameras could actually do what we wanted to do. We don’t have CGI cars in the movie. It’s metal on metal. It’s a real car flying off the side of the bridge.” As silly as this whole thing sounds, a practical car chase movie is something we find it hard to say no to. Then again, Lussier directed three films in the bizarrely popular “Dracula 2000” franchise, and it’s hard to immediately trust that sort of resume.
Cage and company get to “Drive Angry” into theaters on February 11th, 2011.
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