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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Eddie Griffin is starring in "Redline," an auto thriller that will feature the destruction of one of the producer's own Porsches.

The film, shooting in Las Vegas and Chicago, also stars Nathan Phillips ("Snakes on a Plane") and Nadia Bjorlin ("Days of Our Lives"), and will feature a cameo from Wyclef Jean, who is scoring the movie.

But the biggest stars might be the personal car collection of the film's producer, real estate investor Daniel Sadek, who is financing the $26 million budget himself. Scenes will include his Phantom, Lamborghini Murcielago, Enzo Ferrari, Ferrari F430, Ferrari Scaglietti and two McLarens. In one sequence, a $200,000 Porsche Carrera GT will be destroyed.

"We want to do the real deal," Sadek said. "We don't want to do CGI. We thought it would create some hype. People will know we're destroying a real Porsche -- not a model, but a real one."

Sadek said the appeal of cool fancy cars knows no age boundaries. "Every kid, every man of every age loves cars. And nobody has seen all these cars in one movie, racing."

The film is being directed by Andy Cheng, who has worked as a stunt coordinator on such films as "The New World," "Collateral," "The Rundown" and the "Rush Hour" movies.

Griffin most recently appeared in "Date Movie" and "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo."

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

m3_lover wrote:In one sequence, a $200,000 Porsche Carrera GT will be destroyed.

With those Ferraris available, I find it a huge lack of taste to destroy a Porsche. I find a huge lack of taste destroying a Porsche anyway. In fact, why don't they do a snuff movie and destroy the producer instead???

And wow, it will be directed by someone who has been a stunt coordinator in action flicks... I guess it will be a new Citizen Kane ... you know, it only hurts more the Posche thing, for a likely VERY lousy movie and all...

meh smash the porshe
they gave us this car remeber

914 5h3 peoples porshe

I find it lovely (I'm being honest... and biased!)

When they enter F1 (again?), then I'll be against destroying them, but my neighbour has four 924s rusting outside his house that he expects me to take apart and sell on e-bay, for free! Die Porsche Die (and I'm not speaking German!)

dumrick wrote:I find it lovely (I'm being honest... and biased!)

if i wanted a peoples car (and i lived in germany) id buy a VW porshe sould make high performance cars and thats is


it would be like buying a new ferrari 123 fwd I4 econmy car made in china

Americans are so wasteful.

m3_lover wrote: In one sequence, a $200,000 Porsche Carrera GT will be destroyed.

Hey in Bad Boy 2 when they blew up the mansion in the movie, it was not a miniature model, it was a actual 20 million dollar mansion, now that is wasteful

flynfrog wrote:if i wanted a peoples car (and i lived in germany) id buy a VW porshe sould make high performance cars and thats is

Never heard of a VW winning a class at Le Mans (look behind the 917)


And what you say about "Porsche should make high performance cars" (I assume you are talking about heavy and big-engined sports cars) it's a proof you know nothing about Porsche history ...

Wow, it's a personal thing, and I guess there's no specific right or wrong, just opinion. One of my heroes, Chuck Yeager refused to participate (as an official) in the Reno Air Races, despite repeated invitations and the fact his buddy, Bob Hoover did participate. His reasoning was the in the Reno races, they ran the snot out of the aircraft, and totally trashed the engines. Basically, an engine built for Reno was definitely destined to be destroyed. As a mechanic, involved in both motor racing and aviation engines, I took great pleasure from carefully assembling precision machinery, to make it into a living, breathing work of art that performed. I was aware that parts break, and especially in racing, they do a lot. But I hate to see exquisite machinery destroyed, intentional or not.
It can be argued that anyone who purchases an object is entitled to do whatever they wish. And I have to agree, it's theirs to do with as they wish. But to destroy something just for the sake of destruction is something I have little respect for.
There are those who create, and those who destroy. I prefer to appreciate what is created. It's much more difficult and rewarding to create something. Anyone can destroy something, it doesn't take intelligence or talent, or integrity. It just takes the willingness to destroy. I may not oppose them, or stand in their way of destruction if it's an inanimate object that is theirs. But sure as heck, I sure don't respect them, either.

I hate any movie that has the main characters running around in cars I cannot afford. Also hate ricer movies and games. They all try to hard to be cool... I thought u were cool when u didn't have to try.

The real reason to hate Porsche is the Cayenne. At least the 914 was track-worthy (to a point)

That is so sad. Why don't they give the car away for free as part of the promotion. That'll really generate some interest in the movie.

BTW, the reason why we invented CG is because we didn't want to destroy actual objects, hollywod people are such morons. The more I think about this movie, the more it bothers me.

West wrote:The real reason to hate Porsche is the Cayenne.

I kinda agree with you, but I choose to look at it as a way to finance the construction of real Porsches, to bother me less...

Look out! Oops its too late, we have all fallen into his marketing trap. All the producer wanted to do by coming out and saying this was to make people start talking about his movie. Theres no such thing as bad publicity, and it seems to be a pretty smart move on the movie makers part. Its not like they don't spend millions upon millions making cruddy flims every day. This one is just taking advantage of the car guy croud by trying to wow them with something.

Be honest, how many of you want to go see the GT slam into a house or building or something exotic....Like a zoo, perhaps?





(No I dont want defenseless animals to be hurt I was just trying to think of the most rediculous thing a $200,000 car could go speeding into...)