The 2010s had been crammed with large display diversifications that introduced a few of our most treasured video video games to life. Sadly, whereas many like Warcraft, Tomb Raider, and Rampage managed to be field workplace hits, that didn’t essentially imply they had been good motion pictures. Oftentimes they had been nothing greater than CGI spectacles that had been brief on plot and excessive on motion. One such movie has now discovered new life on streaming, the place it is racing up the charts on Hulu due to its current addition to the platform.
We’re speaking, after all, about Want for Velocity, the high-octane motion thriller that stars Breaking Dangerous‘s Aaron Paul. Based mostly on the favored online game franchise that was first delivered to life by Digital Arts, the movie hit theaters on March 14, 2014, and managed to complete in third place on its opening weekend, finally bringing in a worldwide complete of $203 million when it was all stated and carried out. Not dangerous for a movie that was made for simply $66 million, proper? Extra on that in a second.
Additionally starring Dominic Cooper, Scott Mescudi, Imogen Poots, Ramón Rodríguez and Michael Keaton, Want for Velocity is at the moment the #2 film on Hulu in the mean time per Flix Patrol, sitting proper behind Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley’s fantasy comedy, Bedazzled. Known as by some a Temu model of the Quick and the Livid franchise, the movie was a marked departure from the video video games due to its revenge fantasy narrative that noticed Paul searching for redemption over the loss of life of his buddy after being wrongly imprisoned for killing him:
“Tobey Marshall (Paul), a mechanic, races muscle automobiles in an underground circuit. Struggling to maintain his enterprise afloat, he reluctantly companions with rich however treacherous Dino Brewster (Cooper). Nonetheless, Dino frames Tobey for against the law that sends him to jail. Two years later, Tobey is out and bent on revenge; his solely probability to take down Dino is to beat him in a high-stakes race. However to get there in time, he should efficiently evade a military of cops and bounty hunters.”
Why Did not ‘Want for Velocity’ Get a Sequel?
Whereas its take of $203 million was definitely respectable, Want for Velocity did not meet the expectations set by DreamWorks and Disney, the movie’s producer and distributor. Although it managed to carry out nicely abroad due to some critics calling it an “old school, natural, and thrilling” motion thriller, its home field workplace gross was solely round $43 million, lower than the film’s price range. As such, they determined to chop bait and depart issues the place they had been.
Regardless of Paul himself saying he’d like to make one other one, it simply did not make sense financially to maneuver ahead, and actually, you possibly can’t fault Disney or DreamWorks for that. That is, in spite of everything, present enterprise, and if the income aren’t there, why make one thing that you just’re optimistic you are going to lose cash on? Who is aware of, perhaps at some point the franchise will probably be revisited by one other studio, however for now, we’ll simply should be content material with the movie that we have now.
Should you’re seeking to escape your life for 130 minutes this weekend, Want for Velocity is now streaming on Hulu.