With the influx of driving centered films hitting Hollywood — the best of which is undoubtedly Drive — it’s no wonder that Voltage Productions is joining suit. According to THR (via ThePlaylist) the company has, along with Solipsist Films, picked up a spec script titled The Driver for Spenser Cohen and Zach Luna.
The film will center “on a man whose life suburban existence is flipped on his drive to work when he finds himself coerced to be the wheelman of an assembled group of criminals. The man learns that thieves were not randomly assembled and that the heist leads to a larger mystery.” Judging by the synopsis, it’s not an adaptation of Walter Hill‘s 1978 crime film of the same name, starring Ryan O’Neal — which, of course, Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Drive was heavily inspired by.
Cohen is a recent graduate of USC film school and will also direct the project; talk about a huge break for the 25 year-old. With casting staring sometime early next year, it’s hard to determine Cohen‘s directing style, since he’s so new to the scene. But if Voltage Productions, who were behind the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker, think he’s good enough for the project, we’ll just have to take their word for it.
What do you think of The Driver?