| Author | Message | ||
| Mark (Marvellous_mark)
New member Username: Marvellous_mark Post Number: 39 Registered: 12-2002 |
** I wonder if the actors voices will be dubbed over with a British accent? ** You mean Will Smith doesn't sound exactly like Hugh Grant????!!!???? | ||
| Dan (Bobafett)
Intermediate Member Username: Bobafett Post Number: 1470 Registered: 9-2002 |
Ben, I think we should build the go-kart you mentioned in the gixxerkart thread. I'm down! We'll talk about it on Saturday --Dan | ||
| Ben Cannon (Artherd)
Member Username: Artherd Post Number: 988 Registered: 6-2002 |
Dan- I wanna BUY that go-kart! ;) (and you know you want to, uh, too!  Best! Ben | ||
| William Huber (Solipsist)
Intermediate Member Username: Solipsist Post Number: 1344 Registered: 9-2001 |
UK? I wonder if the actors voices will be dubbed over with a British accent? J/K  | ||
| Jean Dupont (Cavallino)
Junior Member Username: Cavallino Post Number: 56 Registered: 8-2003 |
Hi all, The director of the movie used his personal 550 and Ferrari provided a 575. You can see the difference in these shots. Nevertheless it is a good action movie ! 550 Maranello  575M Maranello  Regards, Jean www.cavallino.cc | ||
| Dan (Bobafett)
Intermediate Member Username: Bobafett Post Number: 1455 Registered: 9-2002 |
I wanna see the go-kart! --Dan | ||
| No13 (No13)
New member Username: No13 Post Number: 33 Registered: 3-2003 |
http://www.ferrari.co.uk/ have some nice shots and more information at http://www.ferrari.co.uk/events/fullDisplay.asp?id=135 | ||
| N'din (Abangdin)
Junior Member Username: Abangdin Post Number: 84 Registered: 7-2003 |
I saw the movie. Yes it is a perfect "product placement" for Ferrari. The car was indestructable. | ||
| Tazio Nuvolari (Nuvolari)
Member Username: Nuvolari Post Number: 302 Registered: 9-2002 |
I just watched the film last night as it was one of the last days it was playing in North America (we get all the cool films first). Look closely as you will see that they switch between a 550 and a 575M from scene to scene. Get ready for lots of car chases and even more shooting. Weak plot but who cares it is simple entertainment. | ||
| J R K (Kenyon)
Member Username: Kenyon Post Number: 931 Registered: 10-2002 |
BAD BOYS' 575M   Top product placement for Ferrari in new film When the action adventure feature film �Bad Boys II� hits the cinema screens all over the UK tomorrow, leading actors Martin Lawrence and Will Smith appear using a Ferrari 575 M as the ultimate cop-car. Eight years after Bad Boys became Columbia Pictures� highest earning and most profitable film of 1995, the team of producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay reunited with Lawrence and Smith, to create Bad Boys II . This time the good guys (alias Bad Boys Lawrence and Smith) have to be badder than ever to outwit narcotics empire-builder Tapia (Jordi Molla) and rescue the beautiful Syd (Gabrielle Union), an undercover DEA agent who gets caught up in the crossfire. Searching for locations, director Bay became intrigued by Miami�s MacArthur Causeway which links the city to the Miami Beach peninsula. Somehow Bruckheimer persuaded local authorities to close all the east-bound lanes of the Causeway and re-route regular traffic for four days of filming and the result is claimed to be one of the most intricate, high-speed, thrill-packed car chases in film history. Lawrence and Smith have to fling their smoke grey Ferrari 575 M Maranello through scenes of utter chaos as a giant car carrier sheds its load at 70 mph, and a succession of vehicles flip, spin, roll and smash onto the highway � creating a series of mobile chicanes through which the Ferrari ultimately emerges unscathed. Stuntman Henry Kingi and his stunt team brought in an additional 25 drivers for this four-day Causeway shoot and assembled a fleet of 60 cars, including 15 that were destined to be thrown off the carrier and wrecked as other cars smash into them and deflect them into the path of the heroes� Ferrari. Two purpose-built camera vehicles were manufactured for Bad Boys II . A 100 mph go-kart complete with 35mm camera platform and a fortified, customised pick-up with three external camera mountings protected by steel cages and tasked with ramming its way through cars as they toppled from the carrier! The Ferrari 575 M Maranello used in the film was a standard model fitted with additional safety equipment, including a roll-cage and full safety harnesses. Ferrari Links Ferrari Owners |