Driven

Titolo originale: Driven
Regia: Renny Harlin |
Anno: 2001
Origine: Canada | Switzerland | United States of America |
Generi: Azione Dramma
Tag: career | sports | competition | automobile |
Cast: Sylvester Stallone | Burt Reynolds | Kip Pardue | Stacy Edwards | Til Schweiger | Gina Gershon | Estella Warren | Cristián de la Fuente | Brent Briscoe | Robert Sean Leonard | Verona Pooth | Jasmin Wagner | Chip Ganassi | John Della Penna | Dan Duran | Rob Smith | Richard Zeppieri | Tino Monte | Brian Heighton | Renny Harlin | Luukas Harlin | Peter Kosaka | Frank Blanch | Barry Stillwell | Brett Heard | Phillip MacKenzie | Liz West | Michael Boisvert | Jeffrey Knight | Wayne Best | Jane Moffat | Jake Simons | Jean Alesi | Michael Andretti | Kenny Bräck | Patrick Carpentier | Cristiano Da Matta | Adrián Fernández | Christian Fittipaldi | Dario Franchitti | Luiz Garcia Jr. | Mauricio Gugelmin | Michel Jourdain Jr. | Tony Kanaan | Juan Pablo Montoya | Roberto Moreno | Max Papis | Oriol Servià | Alexandre Tagliani | Paul Tracy | Jimmy Vasser | Jacques Villeneuve | Brian Jennings |

Joe Tanto è stato un corridore della Formula Uno americana. Ha lasciato dopo un grave incidente e ora viene assunto dal proprietario di una scuderia di Formula Cart perché insegni il mestiere a un instabile campioncino, Jimmy Bly. Il ragazzo soffre della pressione psicologica del fratello e della rivalità con un forte avversario. Quando poi si innamora di Sophia, ex del rivale, le cose si fanno più complicate.

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Sylvester Stallone visited the F1 Paddock while researching the racing series. He originally courted [...] D
The film's luxurious 'Hotel Selin' is named after director Renny Harlin's friend, producer Markus Se [...] D
Sylvester Stallone was asked in an interview about films he would wish had not done, and he listed t [...] D
Much of the racing footage is from actual IndyCar, Indy Lights, Formula Atlantic and various CART ev [...] D
Sylvester Stallone originally conceived the film as a biopic of Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna, a ver [...] D
Some of the sounds are not of CART Champ Cars, but rather of Formula One cars. The movie was origina [...] D
The trick that Sylvester Stallone's character (Joe Tanto) performs with the three coins is reminisce [...] D
Portions of the film were shot at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada - home of th [...] D
The reporter in the Toronto press conference scene is played by Brian Jennings, the film's visual ef [...] D
Beau Brandenburg races for Target Ganassi Racing, whose owner is played by Chip Ganassi. In reality, [...] D
The surname of Til Schweiger's character, Brandenburg, is also the name of the German federal state [...] D
Sylvester Stallone told Estella Warren to ad lib his favourite joke, "I was raised by frogs, ribbit [...] D
Renny Harlin: [Finland] There are numerous Finnish flags in the bleachers and also painted on some s [...] D
Sylvester Stallone's original script was 220 pages long. D
The name of a character in the film, Memo Moreno, is a combination of two actual race car drivers in [...] D
Director Renny Harlin cut his trademark long hair prior filming. D
In the scene before the last race (Detroit), real Champ Car drivers are portrayed doing pre-race rit [...] D
Director Renny Harlin got seven million dollars from Blu profondo (1999) and three million from Driv [...] D
Jimmy Bly's car is powered by a Mercedes-Benz engine. The German manufacturer had a successful 1997 [...] D
Renny Harlin: As a driver taking his son to a park before one of the races. D
Working title was "Champs". D
Renny Harlin is in the movie as a crew member for two different teams. He is first seen as a PacWest [...] D
Actor Rex Linn was originally considered for the role of a team manager Carl Henry. Sylvester Stallo [...] D
Many scenes were shot on location at various CART races in the 2000 FedEx Championship Series. As pa [...] D
Jimmy Bly's helmet is almost the same as former CART/Champ Car driver Mark Blundell's helmet. The on [...] D
Making an auto racing film was a long-time dream project for director Renny Harlin. He later called [...] D
The helmet design used by Beau Brandenburg is actually used by Juan Pablo Montoya in real life. Joe [...] D
The relationship between Sophia with Jimmy and Beau is clearly reminiscence of that of Corinna Betsc [...] D
The finish of the last race of the season is reminiscent of the finish to the CART race at Portland [...] D
Sophia Simone does some synchronized swimming moves in the movie. Estella Warren who plays this char [...] D
The driver Memo Moreno is named after real-life ChampCar drivers Roberto Moreno and Memo Gidley. The [...] D
The two team cars that are featured in the movie use the sponsors and paint schemes that were used a [...] D
Director Renny Harlin and actor Sylvester Stallone were in good terms during filming. Stallone even [...] D
The race in Germany was filmed at the Contidrom, a testing facility owned by the German tire company [...] D
Leonardo DiCaprio was originally considered for the role of Jimmy Bly. D
Director Renny Harlin cast Canadian model Estella Warren after seeing her in the Sports Illustrated [...] D
There are small subtleties in this production that were inspired by Ayrton Senna, like the uniform w [...] D
Brian Transeau (BT) composed the music for this film. He also composed music for another racing film [...] D
According to director Renny Harlin's commentary, his first cut of the movie was four hours long. Onl [...] D
On one of the cars is an advert for "Dog Chow". In the movie Showgirls (1995), Gina Gershon (who pla [...] D
The actual premier race of the CART series at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz (also known as the Lausitzrin [...] D