Sitting in the development garage since at least 2011, action project Overdrive has hardly lived up to its name so far, generating a lot of interest without actually gaining any momentum. Producer Pierre Morel and director Antonio Negret are hoping that will change now they have The Longest Ride’s Scott Eastwood on board to star{
Assuming everything comes together this time, the film, written by Wanted’s Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, focuses on two American brothers who decide to push their car-thief career into top gear by heading to France. But they end up running afoul of a much more dangerous criminal.
In its long road to the screen, the film has attracted several variations of the sibling duo with Alex Pettyfer and Matthew Goode, Karl Urban and Ben Barnes and Jamie Bell and Garrett Hedlund all loosely attached at one time or another, with the film passing through the hands of at least one studio.
Now Morel and Negret are looking for new deals, touting the fact they have Eastwood on board at the Toronto Film Festival. The actor, who also had a small role in Fury, will be seen in Oliver Stone’s Snowden and as part of the sprawling cast for David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, which is out here on August 5 next year.