{"id":9005,"date":"2001-02-04T17:14:32","date_gmt":"2001-02-04T21:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=9005"},"modified":"2017-11-24T17:16:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T21:16:38","slug":"ews-advance-look-at-driven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2001\/02\/04\/ews-advance-look-at-driven\/","title":{"rendered":"EW’s Advance Look at “Driven”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The February 16, 2001 issue of Entertainment Weekly<\/b> contains the following write-up about “Driven”<\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

starring SYLVESTER STALLONE, BURT REYNOLDS, KIP PARDUE, ESTELLA WARREN<\/b> written by SYLVESTER STALLONE<\/b> directed by RENNY HARLIN<\/b><\/p>\n

what’s the big deal? SLY<\/b> writes himself a Rocky<\/b> of the racing circuit<\/p>\n

The last time STALLONE<\/b> buddied up with action auteur HARLIN<\/b> – for 1993’s Cliffhanger<\/b> – they rappelled back to base camp with $260 mil worldwide. And since the thriller was also STALLONE<\/b>‘s last hit, it makes sense that he’d tap the Finnish director to help steer him back onto the fast track. In fact, it’s why STALLONE<\/b> penned this race-car-driving saga. “I’m trying to do something different with my career,” he admits. “Yeah, this movie has action and adventure, but it’s really a drama underneath, like Rocky<\/b>.” How so? Well, the actor plays a retired driver whose days in the victory circle are over. Then a sage racing-team owner [REYNOLDS<\/b>] offers him a second chance – not to get behind the wheel, but to help train a cocky young prodigy [Remember the Titans<\/b>‘ Pardue<\/b>]. Still, despite all the human drama, HARLIN<\/b> promises it’s the wipeouts that’ll fuel this vehicle. “The way we’re shooting these crashes is brand-new,” he says. “You’ve never seen it before. The viewer’s going to be right there in the driver’s seat, spinning out of control.” Pass the Dramamine. [April 27]<\/span><\/p>\n

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I really like the overall positive tone of this write-up. It’s especially gratifying that the writer feels that the “big deal” about “Driven”<\/b> is that SLU <\/b>wrote the screenplay himself!<\/span><\/p>\n

– Craig Zablo<\/b> [February 4, 2001]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The February 16, 2001 issue of Entertainment Weekly contains the following write-up about “Driven” starring SYLVESTER STALLONE, BURT REYNOLDS, KIP PARDUE, ESTELLA WARREN written by SYLVESTER STALLONE directed by RENNY HARLIN what’s the big deal? SLY writes himself a Rocky of the racing circuit The last time STALLONE buddied up with action auteur HARLIN – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,20,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-celebs","category-driven"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-2lf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9006,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions\/9006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}