FilmDistrict has debuted the first official poster for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, a film I saw in Cannes and have been talking about ever since I gave it an A+ (read my review here). And even this poster gives you a taste of what I was talking about in my review when I referenced the font used for the opening credit titles:
We’re witness to Driver’s skills at the outset, though this opening scene is merely a taste of what the film has to offer in terms of action-based entertainment, but it’s as good a start as any. As the scene comes to a close Refn makes way for the opening titles, which are scrawled in the same font used for Prince’s Purple Rain, which is only appropriate considering Refn’s frequent use of ’80s-esque pop music, a trend he welcomingly continues with Drive.
You can watch that opening scene I reference in that quote right here, but before you go check out the first poster for the film directly below and get a larger taste here if you need a bit more.
Also, as for that “’80s-esque pop” vibe I reference in that quote above, you can listen to the film’s title track from Kavinsky called “Nightcall” directly above, just imagine the names Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks and Ron Perlman scrawled in the same pink font you see on the poster as the music plays over city lights and you’re already in the mood.
Drive hits theaters on September 16. If you haven’t yet watched the trailer and dare to defy my suggestions not to do so… click here for the red band version.
Drive is a fast paced action thriller that focuses on a Hollywood stunt driver, a loner by nature, who moonlights as a getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA’s most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the ex-con boyfriend of his beautiful neighbor in a job that goes dangerously awry. The only way he can keep her safe and stay alive is to do what he does best: Drive.
