John Travolta Went And Made A VR Crime Series That Looks Completely Ridiculous
Someone stopJohn Travolta.
I thoughtGottiwould mark a low point for thePulp Fictionstar this year, but the two-time Oscar nominee isn’t ready to give up just yet. He’s starring inSpeed Kills, a virtual reality crime series (!) set in 1980s Miami that’s based on a true story. Travolta plays a speedboat racing champion (!!) who gets caught up with the mob, cruises around in a boat with “007” painted on the side, and spits out defiant lines like “I’m not selling Blue Thunder to you!” with a totally straight face (!!!). You’ve gotta see this to believe it.
ScreenCrush’s E. Oliver Whitney found these incredible posters and shared them on Twitter.
Speed Kills Posters
Do you want the trailer next? Of course you want the trailer next.
Speed Kills Trailer
Jodi Scurfieldis the director, and the cast also includesKathleen Winnick,Kellan Lutz,James Remar,Tom Sizemore, and…Matthew Modineas George Bush?! WHAT IS GOING ON? For some answers, Whitney shared this article atVRFocus.com, which breaks things down for us.Speed Killsis an upcoming feature film, and theSpeed Kills VR Experienceis a 360-degree experience that was shot at the same time as the movie. Here’s more:
Created by TopDogVR, the groundbreaking drama is split across eight episodes each running for around seven to nine minutes in length. Each episode explores a different part of the tale include boat racing, mobster beatings, drug running and DEA chasing in full 360-degrees. The action packed experience will give viewers a truly immersive feeling of being a part of the events as they sit right in the heart of the drama.
Here are a couple of clips:
Riveting stuff.
Believe it or not, this actually won Best Feature Film VR 2018 at the Cinequest Film Festival in Silicon Valley earlier this year, and the VR experience has been available to download on Oculus, the Google Play store, and Apple’s app store for over three months. (The movie is reportedly getting a theatrical release onNovember 16, 2018.)
What the hell is Travolta doing starring in this thing? Does he really need the money that badly? This looks like a bar band doing covers of the greatest hits of 1980s mob stories, not adding anything interesting to the genre (other than maybe the speedboat component). There are over 25 executive producers on this thing.Gottialso had over 25 EPs.
Is the real Travolta in over his head with the actual mob, andthat’swhy he’s starring in these projects? Someone make a movie about that!
