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

Lionsgate Actor Keanu Reeves is well underway dealing the bullets, blows and judo throws in Chad Stahelski’s John Wick: Chapter Two going into the weekend. In the meantime, news out of Berlin is reporting that the action star’s most recent casting, Rally Car, currently being shopped at EFM by IM Global, has been nabbed by Lionsgate for its U.S. release with plans to shoot in the U.S. and China. 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 […]

Harald Zwart To Direct China-Set Race Thriller, RALLY CAR With Keanu Reeves Starring

Lee B. Golden III

Actor Keanu Reeves is long anticipated to re-emerge once more as formerly recovering hitman in John Wick 2 later this year. For now though, his other endeavors will see him racing through China in the new Chinese co-production, Rally Car, as of September, and word now has it that The Karate Kid and The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones helmer Harald Zwart will direct. Reeves will play a nostalgic hot shot former NASCAR driver whose personal and professional become flailing, and he’s soon forced to redeem himself in a high-stakes international race through China with a young Chinese woman as his co-driver. Reeves is producing via his Company Films banner with Stephen Hamel whose script treatment was handled by scribe Jeremy Lott, while Fundemental Films, who are currently making headway in lending co-production status to various imported titles through bypassing China’s quota system in order for more revenue to split, […]