Producer To Destroy His Own Carrera GT For Movie

Just_me · **Producer To Destroy His Own Carrera GT For Movie -** 04-16-2006, 11:29 AM

Producer To Destroy His Own Carrera GT For Movie

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

MikeJ · **Re: Producer To Destroy His Own Carrera GT For Movie -** 04-16-2006, 11:38 AM

There's a reason not to see that movie...
Why don't they just get their hands on one of the already wrecked ones and make total mincemeat out of it.

audi_rudy · **Re: Producer To Destroy His Own Carrera GT For Movie -** 04-16-2006, 11:39 AM

this kind of shit makes me mad and sad...
why why why there are only 1500 of these made and its bad enough hearing about them being crashed on the roads on accident but on puropse

BMW_Dude · **Re: Producer To Destroy His Own Carrera GT For Movie -** 04-16-2006, 12:39 PM

Seems pointless ruining a car as great as the CGT, why not get rid of a different supercar, maybe a Zonda!

The Artist · **Re: Producer To Destroy His Own Carrera GT For Movie -** 04-16-2006, 12:53 PM

Damn retards.. look at the movies he made before..all suck.. this will also suck..so he thought lets destroy a real limited supercar..so that someone will come and watch the crap

dOmInIX · **Re: Producer To Destroy His Own Carrera GT For Movie -** 04-16-2006, 01:23 PM

I would smash this guy with baseball club as strong as I can...Mother*ucker, I hate him...Bastard...

No offense to our American members but this is retarded and shows the complete lack of grey substance in many American brains.

Centurion · **Re: Producer To Destroy His Own Carrera GT For Movie -** 04-16-2006, 01:45 PM

Very stupid and very unnecessary.

bum-man · **Re: Producer To Destroy His Own Carrera GT For Movie -** 04-16-2006, 02:03 PM

Did anyone even consider it's just a replica or an already totaled CGT? Makes more since from a budgeted standpoint.

SDNR · **Re: Producer To Destroy His Own Carrera GT For Movie -** 04-16-2006, 02:22 PM

This is purely indicative of the absolute decadence of our times. It's a kind of "I'm so rich, I can crash a Porsche for fun" attitude, it's quite disrespectful. With corporate leaders paying themselves grotesque salaries while laying-off thousands of jobs. Hip Hop artists bragging about their wealth etc. and with all very expensive bling, very showy, but almost entirely without a sense of dignity or taste. All while economic analysts are warning us of a global economic crisis - we do live in very strange times.

Centurion · **Re: Producer To Destroy His Own Carrera GT For Movie -** 04-16-2006, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Roberto

This is purely indicative of the absolute decadence of our times. It's a kind of "I'm so rich, I can crash a Porsche for fun" attitude, it's quite disrespectful. With corporate leaders paying themselves grotesque salaries while laying-off thousands of jobs. Hip Hop artists bragging about their wealth etc. and with all very expensive bling, very showy, but almost entirely without a sense of dignity or taste. All while economic analysts are warning us of a global economic crisis - we do live in very strange times.

Yeah this is all about the owner showing "hey I can afford to blow up a CGT". All of this is to demonstrate his wealth. I bet he is sitting on a 40 millions dollars account with a sallery of 2 million per year. This whole thing is retarted and I would be suprised if someone will actually be impressed by it. The CGT is a spectacular car which will probably be worth atlest 1 million dollars in three years or so.