I’m not sure if this is a story or not, it all depends on how Joe Carnahan‘s new action-thriller/comedy Stretch is set up as it focuses on a down-on-his-luck chauffeur played by Patrick Wilson (Insidious) who is attempting to relieve his debt by driving around a mysterious billionaire who drags him to hell and back.
Low budget genre king Jason Blum and his newly formed Blumhouse Productions is launching Blumhouse International with the title at Cannes alongside Sinister 2 and to help bolster sales, Carnahan has cast Chris Pine (Star Trek Into Darkness) in a cameo role, reuniting the director with his Smokin’ Aces co-star for the first time since Pine played one of the Tremor brothers in Carnahan’s 2006 film.
The question is to wonder whether Pine will be one of a series of cameos that steps into the backseat of Wilson’s limo or simply be a passer-by as the fact it is a cameo would suggest he won’t be playing the billionaire referenced in the film’s plot.
The biggest curiosity at this point is to wonder who wrote the screenplay as neither The Wrap (who reports the Pine casting) or early reports on the film back in November 2012 detailed. I guess we’ll learn more the closer we get to the film’s production, which is expected to begin later this year.
Considering Carnahan’s career, if this turns out to be a film loaded with cameo appearances this could be one hell of a great ride should he be able to land the likes of former actors he worked with such as Ray Liotta, Liam Neeson, Jeremy Piven, Frank Grillo and others.
