2 articles from 2009
Jason Priestley Options Death of a Freerider; Cycling Subgenre Explodes!
12 November 2009 10:30 AM, PST
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Suddenly, cycling movies are everywhere! Ok, maybe not everywhere. But having two cycling-related films announced in the same day is enough to get any fixed-gear freak (and you are freaks, all of you) to pedal a little faster. There's David Koepp doing Premium Rush, a bike messenger action flick that hopes it can be as awesome as Kevin Bacon's seminal bike messenger movie Quicksilver.
And now Jason Priestley has optioned Death of a Freerider, a Rolling Stone article about a mountain biker who got into the exiting world of international drug smuggling.
Variety reports the deal. The article was published only within the last few months, and isn't available online. (Edit: actually, there are scans online, which I found via Gordon and the Whale.) The article covers Sam Brown, a 22-year old Canadian mountain biker who started smuggling pot back and forth across the Us/Canadian border, and committed
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David Koepp Will Write/Direct That ‘Quicksilver’ Remake You’ve Been Wanting
12 November 2009 7:31 AM, PST
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That may not be technically accurate...
Per Variety, David Koepp will write and direct a new film called Premium Rush about a bike messenger with a valuable package who gets chased throughout New York City by a dirty cop. The film "is being conceived as a big-budget actioner, much like the films Koepp is known for penning, and will feature the kind of elaborate chases associated with a William Friedkin pic."
Koepp is "known for penning" quite a few films, but his big actioner ones include Angels & Demons, Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, War of the Worlds, Spider-Man, and The Lost World: Jurassic Park. That's an incredibly mixed bag quality-wise, so there's no telling if the new film will be any good. Koepp has directed before, but all of those films (including the under-rated Ghost Town) have been much lower-budgeted affairs.
It's obviously way too early in the process to seriously question Koepp's intention
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