Rush
Directed by Ron Howard
Produced by Ron Howard
Brian Grazer
Andrew Eaton
Eric Fellner
Brian Oliver
Guy East
Nigel Sinclair
Tobin Armbrust
Tim Bevan
Tyler Thompson
Todd Hallowell
Screenplay by Peter Morgan
Starring Chris Hemsworth
Daniel Brühl
Olivia Wilde
Alexandra Maria Lara
Pierfrancesco Favino
Music by Hans Zimmer
Cinematography Anthony Dod Mantle
Editing by Daniel P. Hanley
Mike Hill
Studio Exclusive Media
Revolution Films
Working Title Films
Imagine Entertainment
Relativity Media
Cross Creek Pictures
Distributed by Exclusive Media
Universal Pictures (USA)
StudioCanal (UK)
Pathé Productions (France)
Release date(s) September 13, 2013Running tie 122 minutesCountry United States
United Kingdom
Language English
German
Budget $38,000,000
Rush is a biographical action film directed by Ron Howard and written by Peter Morgan about the 1976 Formula One season and the rivalry between drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, and was released on September 13, 2013. It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and premiered in London on September 2, 2013.
After a catastrophic crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring that could have killed him, Formula One driver Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) returns to face his rival James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) in their pursuit of the 1976 World Championship at Fuji in Japan.
The film was shot on location in the United Kingdom, Germany and Austria.Filming took place at the former World War II airfield of Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire, and the Snetterton (Norfolk), Cadwell Park (Lincolnshire) and Brands Hatch (Kent) motor racing circuits in England, and at the Nürburgring in Germany.[Both vintage race cars and replicas were used in the filming. The film was supported by the film fund of Baden-Württemberg
Rush has received critical acclaim from critics. As of September 17, 2013, it currently holds a rating of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 52 reviews with an average rating of 7.7 out of 10. Its consensus reads "It's sleek, slick, well-oiled machine, Rush is a finely crafted sports drama with exhilarating race sequences and strong performances from Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl." Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 79 based on 12 reviews.
The Formula One world champion James Hunt smoked, drank and reportedly slept with 5,000 women. Rush – Ron Howard's gloriously fun biopic about the hotheaded rivalry between McLaren's English playboy and the austere, Ferrari-driving Austrian Niki Lauda – takes that legend, colours it in and has it enamelled.
Writer Peter Morgan (re-teaming with Howard after Frost/Nixon) presents a rollicking tale of lunatics and dreamers, of men aiming for excellence in an era when a death toll of two or three drivers a year was part of the sport. He celebrates the divine, selfish pursuit of glory, and falls deeply in love with the gung-ho derring-do of men pushing themselves to the limit. But it's his nostalgia for those pre-Senna days that gives Rush rattle, as well as roar.
Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl play Hunt and Lauda, the oil-and-water opponents whose fierce competitiveness would come to a head in the extraordinary season of 1976. Hunt has a recklessness that can push him into pole position. Formulaic, disciplined Lauda is the more consistent driver and – despite Hunt's flashes of wit – the more interesting character. Brühl gives the young race driver an aged sadness to go with the giant overbite that nature planted on him. Lauda was alien to Hunt: the beginnings of a modern athlete. He didn't smoke or drink. He was careful what he ate. He cared about the car and the race. But Brühl and Morgan let Lauda's sense of humour come through too. "You're relentless," says an exasperated Hunt. "Thank you," Lauda snaps right back.
Hemsworth makes a fine run of playing Hunt as a carousing ladies man, but he's tough to love on his own. Morgan has him seducing nurses in A&E, lamping damned shabby journos at press conferences. At these
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