Nathan Phillips and Eddie Griffin are toplining "Redline," an auto thriller being directed by stunt coordinator-turned-director Andy Cheng. Daniel Sadek is producing via his Chicago Pictures banner.
The film also stars Nadia Bjorlin ("Days of Our Lives") and will feature a cameo from Wyclef Jean, who is scoring the movie.
Not only is Sadek, a real estate investor-turned-producer, financing the pic to the tune of $26 million, but he also is using his personal car collection for the car sequences. Sadek is putting his Phantom, Lamborghini Murcielago, Enzo Ferrari, Ferrari F430, Ferrari Scaglietti and two McLarens, among others, in the movie and will destroy one of his two $200,000 Porsche Carrera GTs in one sequence.
"We want to do the real deal," Sadek said. "We don't want to do CGI. We thought it would create some hype. People will know we're destroying a real Porsche -- not a model, but a real one."
Sadek says the appeal of cool fancy cars knows no age boundaries. "Every kid, every man of every age loves cars," he said. "And nobody has seen all these cars in one movie, racing."
Shooting is under way in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas areas.
Chicago's Al Hayes is executive producing.
Phillips appears alongside Samuel L. Jackson in "Snakes on a Plane" and starred in the Australian horror movie "Wolf Creek." He is repped by WMA and Principato-Young.
The ICM-repped Griffin most recently appeared in "Date Movie" and "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo."
Cheng, whose long list of stunt credits include "The New World," "Collateral," "The Rundown" and the "Rush Hour" movies, made his feature debut co-writing and directing "End Game" with Cuba Gooding Jr. and James Woods. He is repped by ICM.
Sadek also is a producer on "If I Had Known I Was a Genius."
Borys Kit writes for The Hollywood Reporter.
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