Ron Howard's "Rush"

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http://www.autoblog.com/2012/01/17/ron-howards-rush-caught-filming-at-ring/


Good motorsports films don't come up terribly often, but now and again, we get lucky. In 2011, we were graced with the very fine Senna documentary, and it appears there's another period Formula One racing piece that could be worth watching on the silver screen soon: Rush.

We've known for some time that this project, which chronicles the 1976 F1 season-long battle between Austria's Niki Lauda and Britain's James Hunt, was in the cards, and we also knew that Ron Howard had signed on as producer. Howard, you may recall, is the Academy Award-winning force responsible for such films as A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13 and Frost/Nixon. But we hadn't heard much about filming getting underway – until now.

Thanks to these new photos taken at Germany's Nürburgring by our friends at PistonSpy, we now see that work on the film has begun. We have to say, James Hunt's Marlboro-liveried McLaren looks particularly fetching in these photos, and it must be a thrill to see and hear these vintage F1 cars lapping the legendary Nordschleife.

We're already cringing in advance for Howard's recreation of Lauda's massive crackup at the German Grand Prix, a crash that saw him sever his right ear and suffer facial burns (you can see in-period video footage of the fiery crash after the jump). Lauda would return after missing just two races and storm back into the points chase in pursuit of James Hunt and his McLaren. Hunt would eventually win the World Championship by a single point. For dozens of additional images, be sure to check out PistonSpy at the link below.

[acosmichippo]

some cool photos here from the set. Tons of classic F1 cars, and a few nice pics of ladies as well.

http://jalopnik.com/5894846/ron-howards ... gallery/30

[LewEngBridewell]

It's looking good so far. Interesting that this one is a drama, rather than a documentary!

[Jabberwocky]

Some of the things he puts on Twitter about the film are impressive

[What's Burning?]

Vintage all the way, even down to the cameras being used by the photographers. One nice thing is that this movie will get national release. Remarkably, it's things like this that tend to bring a sport front and center into the spotlight into the country and with two GPs in 2013... who knows.

[What's Burning?]

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This is looking very good.

[Jabberwocky]

Nice to see a Tom Pryce car, another driver who the world never got to show his full potential.

[LiamCatterson]

I think it's great if we bring this subject up since it's close to being released. I am going to see the movie on Tuesday, EARLY SCREENING WOOOOP

[What's Burning?]

Good idea, It says it's in theaters 9/27... that was YESTERDAY! I'll go try and catch it ASAP.

[Jabberwocky]

Wtf I did not think it was out for another fortnight

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[LiamCatterson]

It's out worldwide September 20th or s*** like that, but we're going to this well known theatre in the North East and it's hosting Rush

[LiamCatterson]

Actually, I think it's a special screening. Just looked at the times between the time I am going and the time it will be next played, and it's a 10 day gap. I assume it's special screening...ALRIGHT!!!!!!

[What's Burning?]

Same there, the web site said yesterday but that's only for the beautiful people.

[LiamCatterson]

Same there, the web site said yesterday but that's only for the beautiful people.

I am above beautiful of course

[sagi58]

Good idea, It says it's in theaters 9/27... that was YESTERDAY! I'll go try and catch it ASAP.

Uh... ahem... 9/27 is September 27th... that's not for another month...