"Need for Speed" is an ode to the automobile and not the green, hybrid kind either. The vehicles in this movie are sleek, sexy, gas-guzzling, carbon-spewing planet-destroyers, and director Scott Waugh revels in shooting them from every conceivable angle (plus a few you never even thought possible). In an interview with The Japan Times, Waugh begins by saying that "whatever happens in the world, cars will always be around. People love them too much. And this is a movie that banks on that love."
OK, but what about the environment and a growing discussion in the U.S. about how Hollywood should promote greener, more sustainable values?
"It's not like I'm always making movies about cars," says Waugh with a laugh. (His last work was the CIA thriller "Act of Valor.") Still, Waugh was one of Hollywood's most famous and reliable stuntmen, officially working on films as a professional daredevil from the mid-1980s until he retired in 2005. To say that he's good with cars is like saying Einstein was good with physics.