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Cusack's big chase
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by: Dave Davis May. 21, 2007

After spending my awkward years watching John Cusack show us his in movies like BETTER OFF DEAD and SAY ANYTHING, I get a charge out of watching him running around shooting big holes in various people and things in movies like CON AIR and GROSSE POINTE BLANK. Wish fulfillment courtesy of Cusack.

It sounds like he'll be bringing us a lot more of such aforementioned violence -- Cusack is starring in the action flick STOPPING POWER, for SPEED demon Jan de Bont. That's already been announced, but the real news here is that the flick will apparently finish up with "a 51-minute, real-time chase involving cars, helicopters and jets." Yow.

That takes some stones, since I don't even think the actual speed part of SPEED lasted that long. Sounds like it's aiming for the original GONE IN 60 SECONDS -- literally the entire second half of that film is composed of a stolen Mustang evading practically every cop in California.

STOPPING POWER (an ironic title, given the purported non-stopping) features Cusack as an American tourist (and test pilot) whose daughter is kidnapped while visiting Europe.

Source: Variety

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Extra Tidbit: STOPPING POWER's script comes from Skip Woods (SWORDFISH, HITMAN) and Eric Red (THE HITCHER, 100 FEET).

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deadshot
1:21AM on 05/22/2007 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Let's give it up for Gib!
I loves me some Johnny Cusack. He didn't get nearly enough people to kill in CON AIR, but made up for that with GPB, which is one of my favorite films. This idea smacks a little too much as a higher-octane NICK OF TIME, which was another "real time" actioner, and that sucked galaxies of ass despite having Depp and Walken, but hopefully this will turn out for the better.
I loves me some Johnny Cusack. He didn't get nearly enough people to kill in CON AIR, but made up for that with GPB, which is one of my favorite films. This idea smacks a little too much as a higher-octane NICK OF TIME, which was another "real time" actioner, and that sucked galaxies of ass despite having Depp and Walken, but hopefully this will turn out for the better.
 
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The Phantom
9:37PM on 05/21/2007 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Oh dear, I appear to be salivating. And creating unintentional knuckle children.
Oh dear, I appear to be salivating. And creating unintentional knuckle children.