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If Back to the Future met The Fast and the Furious met Asian Extreme action, it might look something like the wildly inventive, exuberantly nonsensical Overdrift, a crazy concoction from the Duncan Brothers, Los Angeles-based filmmakers who originally hail from Seattle.
With swinging cameras, fast cuts, creative effects and a mashed-up plot involving everything from "drift racing" and paleontology to cross-dimensional travel and the bond of two brothers, Overdrift feels like Hollywood conventions hopped up on acid and made on a shoestring budget.
Overdrift was inspired by a Japanese anime TV series called "Initial D" as well as "Channel 101 and its many creators and our own inability to take anything seriously," Ian and Brant write via email, as well as Sickanimation.com's Marc M., "dinosaurs, beards, Werner Herzog, and Koreans."
"We go over story and major plot points, all the scenes and the general flow of things," the Duncan brothers explain about their improvisational process, "but specific dialogue is kinda hashed out when we are shooting. We certainly value the benefit of a good script, but these kind of things can be done on the fly."
Ian Duncan, 24, graduated from USC film school, while Brant, 22, got a filmmaking degree from San Francisco State University. "We basically spent all of our money at school, so now we can't afford to do anything else," they say. "We're scrappers and would rather pull the trigger on a gun in our mouths then stop making movies."
While the dynamic duo are content working on their own projects (check out previous wacky D.I.Y. wonders such as the sci-fi cyberpunk "Burn/N.E.N.E.R" and the buddy-cop action-thriller "The Deepening"), they have "bigger projects on the horizon," they say. And we'll be watching out for them.
-Anthony Kaufman
Ian and Brant Duncan
Dinos and Drift Racing
Drama, Comedy
5:00
$100
Los Angeles
Toshi Fumayaki : Ben Lunden
many : Ian Duncan
many : Brant Duncan
Ian and Brant Duncan
Ian and Brant Duncan
Ian and Brant Duncan
Final Cut and Flame
Compositor : Scott Bunya
