Drive (1997 film)

Drive
Film poster
Directed by Steve Wang
Written by Scott Phillips[1]
Starring Mark Dacascos
Kadeem Hardison
Brittany Murphy
Tracey Walter
John Pyper-Ferguson
Music by Walter Werzowa
Cinematography Michael Wojciechowski
Edited by Ivan Ladizinsky
Release date
  • August 4, 1997 (1997-08-04) (Germany)
Running time
 99 minutes original cut
112 minutes director's cut
Country United States
Language English
Budget $3.5 million

Drive is a 1997 action film starring Mark Dacascos, Kadeem Hardison, Tracey Walter, John Pyper-Ferguson, Brittany Murphy, and Masaya Kato. The film was directed by Steve Wang with stunt work and fight choreography done by Koichi Sakamoto. Like most of Wang's films at the time, Drive went straight-to-video but received a cult following afterwards.

Plot

A machine/human-hybrid prototype formerly working for the Red Chinese, Toby Wong (Dacascos), forces a down-on-his-luck, extroverted songwriter named Malik Brody (Hardison) to drive him to Los Angeles after their first meeting in a bar. He is on the run from hitmen—a hillbilly assassin/bounty hunter named Vic Madison and his inane henchman called "Hedgehog".

Alternate Cut

The US DVD, VHS and cable showings of this cult film are the "Robbie Little Cut" where a producer on the film edited 20 minutes of it into a 98-minute running time and replacing the original soundtrack with a techno-based score. The UK PAL "Special Edition" DVD formatted for NTSC, includes not only a video transfer but a full restoration of Steve Wang's original cut including a Dolby Digital 5.1 remix of the original soundtrack. The British DVD release is a special Director's Cut version, containing reinstated cut scenes and the original film score. Special extras on the DVD include newly commissioned interviews with cast and crew, director's audio track, and a feature on the Japanese stunt team responsible for the film's action scenes.

Deleted scenes include:

  • A scene in Malik's house where Malik and Toby enter his daughters' room and they talk about his 4-year-old daughter and how much he loves her.
  • A scene in which Hedgehog and Madison question the existence of aliens.
  • A scene after the Motel fight where Deliverance hugs Toby and Malik gets a bit jealous.
  • A scene in which Toby reveals he has a brother and that they were both singers once.
  • A longer version of the final fight where Toby delivers a new kick.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680780/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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