He's a Little Bit Dirty, He's a Little Bit Pretty Too
By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (5)
A “bike messenger thriller”? Don’t ask me how those words make sense together, but then again, maybe they do now that Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road, Jonah Hex, The Runaways) is in as Premium Rush’s villainous cop. The Academy Award nominated star will be hunting down Dustin’s new favorite boy toy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a New York City bike messenger who picked up an envelope Michael Shannon desperately wants. Also in talks to join the film as a fellow messenger trying to help outwit Shannon’s cop, is Jamie Chung (Grown Ups), but I don’t know who the hell she is.
Shannon adds a little of that edgy darkness that allows him to bring the pretty or the creepy-scary-weird thing, kind of like that Seinfeld episode about people who are two-faced (“The Strike”). But whatever he looks like, he’s a fantastic actor and so is JGL, so even though the premise is weak and the name is shite, I might get sucked in. Dammit!
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Posted by: MM at June 21, 2010 5:27 PM
Story time:
Back in the dawn of time, or the early 1990s, I lived in NYC and I worked for a graphic design firm. This was back in the days when we had computers, but not every last one of them was hooked to every other one via the tool called the interwebs. As a result, we were constantly bike-messengering large color printouts of things to our clients' offices. And of course, everything was "I need it in the next hour!"
One day, we had messengered something to a very important client, and it was going on 2, 3 hours and they kept calling us saying they hadn't gotten it yet. So my boss, who was the Platonic embodiment of a high-powered New York lady who had been a big advertising executive but then started her own firm and brooked no weakness, finally got on the phone with the messenger service and discovered that the bike messenger who had been carrying our package had been HIT BY A CAR. And was in the hospital.
Her response: "So what happened to our package?"
Bike messengering is serious business.