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Need for Speed movie begins filming in Georgia

Downtown Macon being used for film adaptation of Need for Speed; movie due for release in 2014.

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The movie adaptation of Need for Speed has begun filming in Macon, Georgia.

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Local news channel 13MAZ reports that downtown Macon is being used for filming, including a local car wash.

The Need for Speed movie is being produced by DreamWorks Studios and will star one-time Batman Michael Keaton alongside Aaron Paul, who plays Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad. The plot features a street racer taking part in a cross-country race to get revenge on an ex-business partner, who places a contact on his head as the event begins.

The Need for Speed movie is due to be released in March 2014, and is being directed by former stuntman Scott Waugh. The film has already begun filming in Mendocino County, California.

Swedish studio Ghost (formerly EA Gothenburg) has said it is working on a new Need for Speed video game.

Macon also recently featured in Telltale Games' adventure game adaptation of The Walking Dead.

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Need For Speed: The Run (PC Gameplay) All Episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo2OXYrmBA4

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I don't think we need more of this type of movie... A few days ago I saw a commercial for Fast & Furious 6. Seriously, 6? I thought they were still on 4! I doubt many people will watch this.

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They just recently finished up filming here in Mendocino Co, CA; it was amazing seeing all the cars (even if many were kit cars). I hope the people in George get to enjoy it as much as we did. On a side bar, i've liked every movie Michael Keaton has been in and I hope he doesn't let me down in this.

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People who play the games are going to think that this is another shitty game license movie and people who never played will think that this is a Fast and Furious rip-off, i don't see this being sucessfull.

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Is it just me or does that picture look like the people were photoshopped to look like they were sitting on the car?

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Edited By The_Kazekyo

@raahsnavj These are not real people buddy, these are the characters from the Need for Speed The Run game.

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Can't wait for the game inspired by the movie.

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I'm normally very cynical about game franchises going down the movie route and I'm not about to change that view anytime soon either.

This has shite written all over it.

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Game license movie!

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Everything is filming in GA now. Ive been in like 4 films already.

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Thats ok! A B movie for a B game!!!!!

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Thanks Martin for the news .

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Gratuitous nudity from some B-list celebrity chick is literally the only way I would ever watch this movie

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Why Investors are wasting money on This movie? it will be smarter to give that money t charity, They just don't know where to take Money seems.

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It will suck.

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Kid Cudi is also in it...

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The movie is going to suck, as we all already know, lets hope is full of hot chicks at least :D

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Cute girl.

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I can already tell it's gonna be SO. BAD.

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The series is crap now anyways might as well stick a fork in it with a crap movie.

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Why is this getting a full theatrical release when this garbage should go straight to DVD and left to be forgotten on store shelfs?

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However bad it will be, it'll probably be better than that garbage coming out this year, fast and the furious 6 I believe.

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I'll take Fast & Furious 6 over NFS Movie any day I'm guranteed to be entertained by Justin Lee and Crew plus hot women hotter cars and real stunts no cg, althought the stock cast of fast/furious is getting kinda of old but this breaking bad kid really doesn't impress me....

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a racing game movie? I'll pass

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Another awful movie adaptation of a video game coming out on 2014

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That's cool. I live in atlanta so this is like an hour drive away. Probably gonna be a shitty movie though. I guess we'll see.

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"...will star one-time Batman Michael Keaton"

Michael Keaton was Batman twice.

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@chibi-acer GS doesn't like to check their facts. lol

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My predictions:

The main character will have a legitimately tear jerking reason to partake in illegal street races that we are supposed to sympathize with, such as paying for a sick child's healthcare.

All of the henchmen will drive non-descript black sedans with blacked out windows, will all have horrible accuracy with automatic weapons and will all be pacified using conveniently placed objects in the environment; including but not limited to jumps, lumber yards and railway crossings.

The 'race favorite' will be a young, arrogant Japanese guy with flame decals on his finely tuned Japanese ride and at some point, despite doing anything he can to maintain the lead during the race, he will learn honor and come to the main character's aid in defeating the bad guy. The two will then have an honorable final showdown on the last stretch of the race where Arrogant Japanese Guy will be content with second place for the first time in his life.

The main antagonist will drive some form of highly indestructible muscle car and will be presumed dead after an inside shot from his car shows him shielding his face and screaming before crashing into: A) A solid wall. B) A petrol tanker. C) Off a cliff or jetty/pier. He will then reappear covered in blood at the end of the film with the sick child as hostage and nearly shoot the main character before Arrogant Japanese Guy intervenes and his plans are foiled once and for all.


The end.

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@Apathy4Marmite Oh man so you've seen Fast and Furious as well...

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@V3rciS It was a long time ago, I don't remember much of it... But I've also seen Wacky Races as well so I guess you could say I'm somewhat of an expert on street racing films and TV. :p

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@Apathy4Marmite I am sorry. I am almost 100% positive that the final cut will not be this good. ;)

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@Apathy4Marmite They are like, "crap, back to the drawing board. Somebody already figured it out..."

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Game based movies are awful. The ONLY good one, and its a fucking classic is the Street Fighter 2 Animated Manga film. Its great! Buy it you slags!

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Wait, I thought NFS stood for "Natural Fart Stank."

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mm though i loved NFS series since hot pursuit the first one mmm.. i think this is th emost useless movie ever and by far it would be a fast and furious either spin off wanna be or something alike mmm.. the only thing is that they show the same cars from the games u know exact models but still ah well.. Hollywood s running out of ideas as USUAL1!!!

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This is just as bad as when they were talking about making "The Sims" into a movie. Fast and the Furious beat you to the punch on this. Curious how the plan to differentiate this from those. Not to mention wasn't there a movie that had this exact premise from like 2005ish?

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Need for Fast and Furious Speed.

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Oh joy! Don't we have enough of this sort of rubbish already with The Fast and the Furious movies... By the time this gets released they'll be on number 15...

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http://i.imgur.com/q3O8A.gif

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So is this getting made for the purposes of cruel punishment?

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A Fast Need for Furious Speed !!

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starring Chris Brown

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@oflow "2 Fast Need for 2 Furious Speed: Frostbite Drift"

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NFS jumped the shark a decade ago.

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@PacoTaco More like was eaten by a shark a decade ago. The brand has been so diluted it's not even funny. Personally, the last good ones was the underground series.

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@ahpuck @PacoTaco I agree, I still have some of those.

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I can't see Michael Keaton as a race car driver. 20 years ago, maybe, but not today.

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@Kerrizma Oh no, you got it all wrong, he's a race car SELLER. No, I'm just kidding. I don't really know.

edit: it would make more sense though, imho.

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Movies based on video games are always amazing. Movie based on a racing video game should be epic

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