‘Need for Speed’: An Inside Look at the Latest Racing Movie

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It’s a small wonder it took movie makers so long to get here.

Maverick and Goose felt the need for speed in “Top Gun” in 1986.

Then, eight years later, the rest of us did after Electronic Arts launched the first Need for Speed video game in 1994, which—now 20 years and 20 titles later—is the world’s most commercially successful video game franchise in history and one of our 10 favorite racing video games.

Today, the film adaptation of “Need for Speed” is being released in theaters nationwide. It stars Aaron Paul (Jessie Pinkman from TV’s Breaking Bad).

Early reviews suggest the film may leave a little something to be desired in the substance department. But are we going for substance? Or are we going for cheap thrills and fast cars? Exactly.

We applaud director Scott Waugh for choosing to film all of the high-speed racing scenes with real cars and real camera work. There are no CGI special effects in this movie. The super cars they destroy are well-made replicas worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Word is they sent some careening off cliffs.

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Director: “Can we shoot that scene again?”

Crew: “Uhh. No. We’re out of $300,000 Bugatti replicas. We totally blew up that last one.”

Director: “Oh. Right. Good job, everyone. We got it.”

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With apologies to Paul and Michael Keaton, everyone knows that cars are the stars of any movie like this, and thanks to the gang at Screen Rant, we’ve got cool images of the automotive stars of the “Need for Speed” film.

Scroll through the slideshow above to see all the cars, and go check out Screen Rant’s post to learn more information about the movie cars and what they’re capable of.

Check out these videos to learn some behind-the-scenes information about the cars in the movie:

Video about the vehicles built for the movie

Video about the camera cars

Behind the scenes introduction to “Need for Speed”