Need for Speed
For honor. For love. For redemption.
Production
Budget
$66 000 000
Revenue
$203 277 636
Director
Scenario
John Gatins
Author
Composer
Nathan Furst
Producer
Mark Sourian
Actors
Aaron Paul
Tobey Marshall
Dominic Cooper
Dino Brewster
Imogen Poots
Julia Maddon
Kid Cudi
Benny Jackson
Rami Malek
Finn
Ramón Rodríguez
Joe Peck
Harrison Gilbertson
Little Pete Coleman
Dakota Johnson
Anita Coleman
Short description
Need for Speed follows Tobey Marshall, a small-town mechanic and street racer whose garage is struggling financially. He reluctantly teams up with wealthy, arrogant former NASCAR driver Dino Brewster to work on a valuable car. The deal ends with Tobey sent to prison for a crime he did not commit. After his release, he sets out to settle the score by competing in a cross-country underground race from New York to Los Angeles, the De Leon. Learning of the plan, Dino puts a large bounty on Tobey's car, turning the journey into a run past police and hired hunters. Tobey is joined by car broker Julia Maddon and his crew.
The film is directed by Scott Waugh, his second feature after Act of Valor, followed later by 6 Below, Expend4bles, Hidden Strike and Runner. George Gatins wrote the screenplay, and Mark Sourian, John Gatins and Patrick O'Brien produced. Aaron Paul leads as Tobey, with Dominic Cooper as Dino, Imogen Poots as Julia, Kid Cudi as Benny Jackson, Rami Malek as Finn and Ramón Rodríguez as Joe Peck. The production had a budget of 66 million dollars and took in about 203 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.4 out of 10 from roughly 186,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.5 out of 10 from about 4,800 votes, while critics rated it 4.4 out of 10 across 183 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- Taylor Kitsch, Liam Hemsworth, Brenton Thwaites and Luke Bracey were considered for the lead role, but Aaron Paul was ultimately cast.
- Riley Keough auditioned for the lead female role, which eventually went to Imogen Poots.
- Prior to filming, actors Aaron Paul and Dominic Cooper received high-speed driving training at the Willow Springs racetrack in California.
- Six supercars were featured in the film: The Koenigsegg Agera R, Lamborghini Sesto Elemento, GTA Spano, Saleen S-7, Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, and McLaren P-1.
- Imogen Poots didn't know how to drive before filming began.
- Director Scott Waugh believed that the role of Toby Marshall should be played by an actor who physically resembled Steve McQueen.
- Director Scott Waugh and stuntman Lance Gilbert grew up next door to each other. Their fathers were renowned Hollywood stunt performers.
- To film a close-up of Scott Mescudi at the controls of a flying helicopter, director Scott Waugh, who had worked as a stuntman himself for a time, decided to put his own life at considerable risk. He filmed the scene himself, being in a cradle outside the helicopter, refusing to let the operator take the risk.
- Besides their professional passion for cinema, brothers George Gaytin and John Gaytin are mad about cars. They have their own garage where they restore classic automobile models.
- The Mustang in which Toby and Julia race at De Leon was designed to be a true movie hero car. Ford specialists undertook the design of a special Mustang for filming, based on a 2013 Shelby GT500. The car was assembled at the Techno Sports factory in Detroit. The Mustang was improved with a wider body; half-meter alloy wheels (to facilitate various stunts); an eight-cylinder engine capable of speeds exceeding 300 km/h; reinforced suspension; high-strength Bilstein shock absorbers; and a strengthened stabilizer bar. Cameras were built into the futuristic side mirrors. A total of seven Mustangs were used in the film. Each had its own function – one was used for stunts, another was filmed while in motion, and a third was used for stationary shots. There was even a separate Mustang that was lifted by cables on a helicopter.
- Several remotely controlled cars were used on the set. They accurately replicated the design of the original models. The actor could sit in the driver's seat and deliver lines, while a stunt driver remotely controlled the car. An important component of these cars was a special cage mounted externally – the driver was positioned above the actor.
- The scene where Scott Meskadi and Harrison Gilbertson play a video game features Need for Speed: ProStreet (2007).
- During the canyon race, Ford's windshield is shown shattered, but the next shot shows it intact again.
- When a truck crashes into a Ford Mustang, the first shot shows the airbag deploying, but in the next shot, as they are spinning in the air, the airbag is no longer visible.
- As the protagonist's car approaches the gas station, the fuel filler cap is seen open, although it was previously closed.
- In Nebraska, at the gas station, the police car's axle breaks. We see a chain attached to the rear. A couple of shots before that, the police officer ran to the car from the rear as well, and the chain was not visible in that shot. And if it had been there, the officer would have seen it.
- The film is based on the "Need for Speed" series of video games (1994 – present).
- Aaron Paul and Dominic Cooper's cars were actually driven by professional racers Tanner Foust and Rhys Millen. Accordingly, other professional racers were behind the wheel of other "super cars" during the final race, including Rich Rutherford, Tony Brakohiapa, Brent Fletcher, and Paul Dallenbach.
- During the scene in the store, when Julia crawls past the DVD stand while hiding from the police officer, you can see the film "Law Abiding Citizen" (2012) among the discs – this is a previous directorial work by Scott Waugh.
- The song "Roads Untraveled" by Linkin Park is featured in the film.
- The main character's "Mustang" was sold at a Barrett-Jackson auction for $300,000 after filming.
- In the scene where the main character arrives at the night race, the drive-in theater is showing the film "Bullitt" (1968), starring Steve McQueen, one of director Scott Waugh's favorite actors.
- The gas station scene, in which the rear axle of the police car is ripped out with a chain, is a reference to the film "American Graffiti" (1973).
- An error was made in the Russian translation: "supercharger" (American English: supercharger, European English: compressor), which is powered by the engine, was translated as "turbocharger," which is powered by a turbine driven by exhaust gases, hence the name "turbocharger." This is rarely used on American cars, including Mustangs. In the original version, the heroine has a better understanding of engines.
- At 59:17, the "Mustang" has one set of wheels, and after landing, it has another.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
