EFM 2017: Keanu Reeves’s RALLY CAR Pulls Up At Lionsgate For Director Olivier Megaton

Despite previous reports of Harald Zwart‘s involvement, Screendaily reports that Olivier “Bryan Mills Jumps A Fence” Megaton will be directing the film which centers on a self-absorbed NASCAR driver who learns to win as part of a team upon reviving his career in a cross-China race with a young woman who aspires to be a racer herself. Jeremy Lott wrote the script based on a previous treatment by Stephen Hamel whose shared Comapny Films banner with Reeves will produce with Fundemental Films’s Mark Gao and Gregory Ouanhon, and with Gary Glushon executive producing.

I emphasize that bit a lot about Taken 3 as an exemplary mark on one of the worst ways to approach action. Megaton did this earlier on Transporter 3 as well as Taken 2 and he wouldn’t be the only one out of EuropaCorp to treat action scenes so egregiously. As a fan AND critic, I’m hoping his take on Rally Car will change for some more smoother and less rickety editing and shots and I’m not alone on that department.

One other film on IM Global’s ticket is Matthew Ross’s romantic thriller, Siberia, which goes before cameras later this year with Reeves also starring.