Logan Lucky How Soderbergh pulled off this NASCAR heist movie. When Steven Soderbergh asked NASCAR to wave a green flag over his upcoming heist comedy, Logan Lucky, executives for the sport had just one condition Dont make us look bad. No problem, the director assured them. Its simply a yarn about three down on their luck siblings attempting a robbery at the Coca Cola 6. Charlotte, with a small band of eccentric co conspirators. The whole idea doesnt benefit at all from me doing a takedown of NASCAR. Thats not what the movies about, Soderbergh said as he sipped a second cucumber gimlet last week at The Ritz Carlton Charlotte, shortly before introducing a screening at Studio Movie Grill. I want to treat NASCAR like the Bellagio hotel in Oceans Eleven. So NASCAR gave the thumbs up, and the man who most famously directed Oceans Eleven through Thirteen set to work putting a gleeful redneck twist on those crime capers. He traded in a debonair George Clooney in a Giorgio Armani suit for a disheveled Channing Tatum in a pair of Carhartt overalls a team of cosmopolitan career criminals for a bunch of West Virginia rednecks and one of Las Vegass most storied hotels the Bellagio for one of auto racings most storied tracks Charlotte Motor Speedway. Channing Tatum and Adam Driver on the set of Steven Soderberghs Logan Lucky. Claudette Barius Fingerprint Releasing Bleecker Street Logan Lucky opens nationwide on Aug. Watch The Last American Virgin Online Facebook. First time screenwriter Rebecca Blunt picked Charlotte Motor Speedway, according to the production notes the mysterious writer has not yet given an interview of any kind, after reading the true story of a 3. She conflated that with a childhood fascination with the pneumatic tubes her mom used at the bank drive through, and imagined in her story that the speedway in Concord moves around massive amounts of cash via a maze like network of the things. The tubes. And the cash. Bleecker Street Then she set the heist during the Coca Cola 6. And finally, she threw in a bunch of hillbillies. Logan Lucky Review Steven Soderbergh Returns From Retirement with a Silly Heist Movie That Has Real Soul. Logan Lucky Synopsis. Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy Channing Tatum and Clyde Logan Adam Driver set out to execute an elaborate robbery during. Now, I dont have anything against a clever caper movie, and this ones pretty clever. But we must remember the myth such films are built upon. In fact, her original working title was Hillbilly Heist. Its worth noting that that was also used as a nickname for the 1. Loomis Fargo robbery, a real N. C. crime that became the basis for the 2. Masterminds, starring Zach Galifianakis. But thats another story. The hillbillies, in this case, are small town West Virginians played by an all star cast with quirks as fantastical as the speedways cash flow system Tatum, cut like a Greek god in Magic Mike, sports a paunch as down on his luck coal minerdivorced dad Jimmy Logan, who discovers the tubes while working a temp job repairing sinkholes underneath it. Adam Driver, so merciless as Kylo Ren in Star Wars The Force Awakens, sports a prosthetic limb as Jimmys bartending brother Clyde. H8OQCzpRLaYs0lPqAA.jpeg' alt='Logan Lucky Full Movie' title='Logan Lucky Full Movie' />Here are six movies to watch with Logan Lucky this weekend, from gritty crime movies to wacky Will Ferrell comedies. Daniel Craig best known as Bond. James Bond. sports a peroxide buzz cut and a Southern accent as an explosives expert who can only help with the robbery if the boys break him out of prison. With Logan Lucky, Daniel Craig shown here with director Steven Soderbergh got a chance to play against type as incarcerated explosives expert Joe Bang. Claudette Barius Fingerprint Releasing Bleecker Street Katie Holmes, Riley Keough, Seth Mac. Farlane, Hilary Swank, Katherine Waterston and Dwight Yoakam also have key roles. For Soderbergh who in addition to the Oceans movies won an Oscar in 2. Traffic Logan Lucky marks his first movie in four years, since he announced his retirement from filmmaking over frustrations with the studio process. The 5. 4 year old auteur came back for this one because he figured out a way to make a movie while completely sidestepping that process see accompanying sidebar. Still, Soderbergh did have the NASCAR hoop to jump through. It wasnt a terribly tough sell especially after Soderbergh wooed the sports suits by bringing Tatum to the initial meeting but Zane Stoddard, NASCARs vice president for entertainment marketing, said there were definitely some concerns We wanted to make sure that Steven and the production could get into these fun, lovable characters while keeping big, glossy NASCAR separate from that, so that were on the inside of the joke, as opposed to making fun of our sport. Soderbergh set them at ease, but also asked them to trust him. Im making a comedy, he told them. Were not making a documentary. Youve gotta find a way to make it a smile. Actors Seth Mac. Farlane and Sebastian Stan face off under the watchful eye of director Steven Soderbergh. Claudette Barius Fingerprint Releasing Bleecker Street And so youll still see wackadoo supporting characters like Dayton White Sebastian Stan, a health conscious ace driver who treats his body like a computer operating system, and Max Chilblain Seth Mac. Farlane, an arrogant sponsor of Whites with a penchant for picking on the disabled. But theyre not ridiculing NASCAR theyre just plain ridiculous. Fortunately for Soderbergh, NASCAR got the jokes, and opened its tracks to him. Close up race sequences were shot at the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga., with Soderbergh acting as his own director of photography manning cameras mounted to the body of a Porsche Cayenne doing 1. Race cars line up at Atlanta Motor Speedway during the filming of Steven Soderberghs Logan Lucky. Claudette Barius Fingerprint Releasing Bleecker Street Meanwhile, anything that looks like it had to have been shot during the actual race was almost certainly shot at the actual race. In May 2. 01. 6, Soderbergh brought five camera units, Tatum and co star Riley Keough who plays his characters hairdresser sister, Mellie to Charlotte Motor Speedway for the Coca Cola 6. Wed spent a lot of time prepping the shoot. Id made the list of all the shots that I wanted, and we drew out on a map where everybody should be at what point during the day, Soderbergh said. NASCARs only concern was that we be low impact and that we be safe. Theyre in the middle of a sporting event. You dont want to be the thing that somebody points to and says, Something went wrong because these guys were in our way. In fact, at an event like that, there are cameras everywhere all day, so Soderbergh and his crew were able to blend in somewhat easily. The surprise was that Tatum did, too. Hes never really looked like that in a movie, said Soderbergh, whose A list star gained weight and drew from a disheveled wardrobe for Logan Lucky. So no, he was just walking around people didnt even recognize him. Watch Starter For 10 Online Free 2016. Adam Driver stars as Clyde Logan and Channing Tatum as Jimmy Logan in Steven Soderberghs Logan Lucky. Claudette Barius Fingerprint Releasing Bleecker Street Soderbergh took the establishing shots from Charlotte and the action shots from Atlanta, then mashed them up with scenes he filmed in the catacombs of the Georgia World Congress Center subbing in for the tracks underground tunnels and scenes he filmed in a warehouse soundstage where his effects team had built a fully functioning pneumatic tube system. The end result makes it look, via movie magic, like the entire heist was shot at Charlotte Motor Speedway. In the process, Soderbergh who was born in Atlanta and grew up in NASCAR friendly states like Louisiana, Texas and Virginia but never took to the sport spent time getting to know some of the drivers, and eventually cast Ryan Blaney, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano, Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch and Kyle Larson in low profile cameos. I didnt know before, like, what is the gateway for people And I realized Its the drivers, he said. They get hooked by a driver, they follow a driver, and thats why they watch. I became the same way, except I have six. For the record, though, Soderbergh has managed to wind up in one little friendly dispute with NASCAR.