Kip was coming off a star turn as QB Ronnie Bass in Remember the Titans and his performance in this pretty much ended efforts to make him a leading man. Tanto’s job is to mentor a young driver gunning for the championship played by Kip Pardue.
I tried to imagine how that casting went:īurt: “The f*ck I gotta be in a wheelchair for?!” Joe is hired back to the number two slot on the Formula One team by owner Carl Henry who is played by wheelchair-bound Burt Reynolds who mostly rolls around being pissed off at everyone. Renny Harlin knew the millions clamoring for him to become the world’s most shredded Formula One driver couldn’t be denied any longer and cast him as washed-up racer Joe Tanto. Sly Stallone had conquered boxing, copping and First, Second and Third blooding many times over but also soccering, assassining, cliffhanging, Judge Dredding, demolitioning and Get Cartering. I’ve never been a huge fan of auto racing so naturally this one grabbed me from the start.īut first with our Formula One theme, it’s time for another installment of: Rush is based on the true story of Formula One drivers Englishman James Hunt (played by Chris “Thor” Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda of Austria (played by Daniel Bruhl). Welcome back to my Top 50 Sports Movies list and the #41 show.
