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First draft written by Roger
Avary, produced by Morgan
Mason. At the end of 1994, Avary (who was a production assistant on Maximum
Potential alongside
his friend Quentin Tarantino) should direct it, starring Jean-Hugues
Anglade, Matt
Dillon, Dolph Lundgren, Nastassja
Kinski, and many others... It was filmed end 1996 by Ian
Sharp replacing Roger
Young in southern France, starring David
Arquette, Emmanuelle
Seigner and Famke
Janssen. The cast of Dolph was also announced several times
but it was wrong information.
"He's talking "RPM,"
an ensemble piece, to follow." from Variety,
November 8, 1994
"Actually, I'm talking
to Roger Avary about doing something he's writing. An ensemble
piece." Dolph Lundgren
in Movieline, volume VI n°10, July 1995
"It's in the Victorine
Sudios, in Nice, that RPM is being filmed, a movie that
tells the exploits of the best car thiefs team in the world.
The film is directed by Ian Sharp (who directed second unit of
Goldeneye) based on a screenplay by Roger Avary. It gathers
Rosanna Arquette and her brother David around Emmanuelle Seigner
and Dolph Lundgren, as well as Ron Perlman." from Premiere, November 1996
(translated from French)
I since got in contact with the
stunt coordinator Patrick
Cauderlier who told me it wasn't the case (Lundgren shot
The Peacekeeper at that time). The film was completed
and screened at the 1997 Cannes Film Market but wasn't even shown
yet to Emmanuelle
Seigner, back in 1998. The movie was at last released in
video & DVD in 2000. Roger Avary told he left the project
at an early stage, both Dolph Lundgren and Matt Dillon as well. Indeed Avary's
(uncredited) script was rewrote and Dolph's character and others
were deleted. Now the movie is only a glimpse of what it could
have been.
Roger Avary says: "A
film I was supposed to direct about car thieves holding a competition
in the South of France.
QUICK SKINNY: Wrote the script
and decided that I didn't want to make the film, so I backed
out of the project. The films producer hired another director
and then hired the two guys who did "Grumpier Old Men"
(!?!) to rewrite my script. The rewrite was so dramatically different
from my original material that I opted to remove my name from
the film." from Roger
Avary's website
The project was interesting,
as the film (with previous cast and writer) could have been as
well, with probably odd characters in the Killing Zoe
or Pulp Fiction style!
For plot, original cast
and pre-sales poster, visit this web site:
Columbus
Films
Roger Avary's own website |
