Today appears to be a day of catch up for me as I returned to Seattle from my eight-day stint in Toronto last night and still have some reviews to write and it looks like some news and trailers to cover. First up is the trailer for David Koepp‘s Premium Rush starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Wilee, a New York bike messenger who picks up an envelope at Columbia University, only to be chased throughout the city by a dirty cop desperate to get his hands on it.
Columbia is set to release the film on January 13, 2012 and alongside Gordon-Levitt, the film stars Michael Shannon, Jamie Chung, Dania Ramirez and Aasif Mandvi. Have a look at the trailer below and see what you think.
Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work for Wilee, the best of New York’s agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie — super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic.
But a guy who’s used to putting his life on the line is about to get more than even he is used to when a routine delivery turns into a life or death chase through the streets of Manhattan. When Wilee picks up his last envelope of the day on a premium rush run, he discovers this package is different. This time, someone is actually trying to kill him.
