Chrome and Paint [Disney - Projet Abandonné]

Disney va produire un film sur le tuning...

Avec le rapper Ice Cube aux manettes.

Une semaine après l'annonce de l'abandon du projet Oblivion, on peut se demander ce qui passe par la tête de Rick Ross et Sean Bailey.
Mais deux articles - l'un sur THR, l'autre sur Deadline - nous en apprennent un peu plus.

Il s'agit de la nouvelle politique de Bailey : produire moins certes, mais dans des champs plus variés (ce qui, d'une certaine façon, explique le retour à la SF avec Tron et Le Trou Noir, et les projets avec de grands réalisateurs comme Sam Raimi ou David Fincher).

Cube doit néanmoins faire réécrire le film pour avoir droit au label PG13. J'imagine que cela signifie que les dialogues doivent être adoucis (disparition des jurons) et THR nous explique que le film sera moins violent (le script original voyait des personnages mourir : cela devrait disparaître également)

Espérons que cela ne soit pas un film à la Fast and Furious. THR nous explique qu'il y a un réel propos : une dénonciation du matérialisme.
Bref, cela sûrement un film grand public, avec une pointe de critique sociale, comme dans Esprits Rebelles, une autre production Disney.

Lu sur THR
Disney Picking Up Ice Cube's 'Chrome and Paint'
The rapper-actor will direct and produce the gritty car culture project.

Continuing to rethink what the definition of a Disney movie, the studio is picking up Chrome and Paint, a gritty car culture project from Ice Cube.
Cube will direct and produce with his CubeVision partner Matt Alvarez and is also co-writing the script with Eva Vives, who co-wrote the 2002 Latino drama Raising Victor Vargas.

Chrome and Paint is actually the name of a song from Cube’s 2006 album Laugh Now, Cry Later and contains lyrics that wouldn’t get through the front gate of the Burban-based  studio.

Cube envisioned the film project, set in South Central LA, as a hardcore R-rated movie where young people die in drive-bys, but now that Disney will be its home, the grit factor will be toned down.

Since taking the reins of the studio, Rich Ross and Sean Bailey have tried to broaden the scope of the traditional Disney movie even as they cut down the number of movies the studio makes.

One move has been bringing in filmmakers that normally wouldn’t have set up projects at the studio, such as David Fincher. Add Cube to the list.

Lu sur Deadline :

In Chrome and Paint, Cube uses the subculture of tricked out Mercedes, BMW and Low Rider cars to frame a drama about the temptation to place materialism above all else. The film has elements of Saturday Night Fever and American Graffiti. Disney’s interest came out of a general meeting with Cube. Disney exec Louanne Brickhouse, herself a car enthusiast, took an interest in the project as did production president Sean Bailey. Universal also showed interest in the film but has a similarly-themed project percolating.

To make it work for Disney, Cube will bring it in as a PG-13, even though he originally co-wrote it as an R-rated feature. The plan is to shoot by the end of summer after Vives does some rewrite while Cube stars in 21 Jump Street (starring with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, with Johnny Depp doing a cameo) for Sony Pictures. Cube, who most recently wrapped the Oren Moverman-directed Rampart, is also touring his latest album, I Am The West, with dates that run through May. Vives just got accepted into the Disney Writing Fellowship Program, which places developing writers on studio projects. She’ll work on this as part of the program.

c'est vrai qu'on ne peut pas s'empécher de penser a FAST AND FURIOUS .... on verra ce que ça donne , mais pour le moment c'est pas un projet qui m'interresse bien ...