What bike is used in Premium Rush?
Metropolitan frameset
Affinity Cycles ( affinitycycles.com) of New York provided the main bike used in “Premium Rush.” The company’s Metropolitan frameset, which costs $475, is Gordon-Levitt’s steed as he bobs and weaves in traffic.
Is Premium Rush real?
THE WHEEL WORLD: Real-life ‘Premium Rush’ riders spin NYC bike messenger tales. Joseph Gordon-Levitt rides for his life in the action flick “Premium Rush” opening Aug. 24, but the city’s real bike messengers are pedaling furiously for a paycheck. The ride: A SquareBuilt single-speed track bike made in Brooklyn.
What was the ticket in Premium Rush?
The envelope contains a ticket, worth $50,000, that an over-achieving Columbia student bought to have her son smuggled into America from China. A New York Police Department detective with a bad gambling problem and an even worse temper tries to get the ticket from Wilee to pay off his gambling debts.
Why is Premium Rush rated pg 13?
Premium Rush is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for some violence, intense action sequences and language. Violence: Characters are involved in numerous collisions with vehicles, bikers and pedestrians.
Is Premium Rush a remake of Quicksilver?
Best Remake of Quicksilver The 2012 film Premium Rush stars Joseph Gordon Levitt as a bike messenger gets into a bit of trouble with bad people. Thankfully everyone missed this movie and instead caught Levitt in Looper.
What is the plot of Premium Rush?
For bike messenger Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), dodging speeding cars, evading crazy cabdrivers, and blowing by millions of cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work. Wilee is one of the best in a dangerous job, and his bike of choice is a Fixie, a lightweight, single-gear unit without brakes. Though Wilee knows that one day he may end up as a smear on the pavement — he is unprepared for what happens after his last run of the day turns into a life-or-death chase through Manhattan.
Premium Rush/Film synopsis
Where was quicksilver filmed?
San Francisco
If it’s difficult to pinpoint the urban locale, that’s because “Quicksilver” was filmed in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Manhattan.
Who wrote Premium Rush?
David Koepp
John Kamps
Premium Rush/Screenplay