We’re not sure if Ron Howard’s Rush movie is an accurate interpretation of one of Formula One’s greatest stories or a Hollywood version of the dramas that unfolded during the 1976 season but either way it’s got to be better than another superhero movie. The casting of Chris Hemsworth as James Hunt and Daniel Brühl as Niki Lauda seems pretty inspired but we’re not all that bothered about the actors, it’s the cars that matter.
Modern movies tend to use computers to create a lot of shots so we were expecting to find that the cars used in the movie were modelled by a geek with a laptop. Happily, the producers managed to get their hands on some historic McLarens and Ferraris which lend the movie a lot of authenticity.
Although it sounds like a lot of money to us, the film was made on a limited budget of £24million. That made replicating racing cars from 30 years ago and reproducing two rain soaked racing sequences tough. But the film makers were in luck as the movie’s director, two-time Academy Award-winner Ron Howard explains. “It’s terribly expensive to build a replica and we were a little bit limited,” but owners of historic Formula One cars rallied around the film, “and for a very, very nominal fee they were bringing their cars and letting us work with them, and that brought so much authenticity to the film”.
The movie opened on general release on 13th September.
via EUROCARBLOG
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