He then told a brief anecdote of when him and Nicolas Cage were on the film's set sitting in one of the lovely cars, and Cage considered buying it, remarking that it cost $25,000 last week, it's $35,000 now, and when the film wraps, if it's a hit, it'll be worth $100,000.
He also seemed pretty knowledgeable about the automotive industry in general, branching off to briefly discuss America's oil crisis in the 1970s, and the tangential nature of this seemed to demonstrate his clear passion for the subject. Being a car lover, Fichtner was of course drawn to the huge number of sexy cars on display, and went into brief detail about his own collection of cars, remembering that when he was a young boy, his parents sold his prized car as they feared for his life, and tried to convince him to buy something a lot safer. As a result he thinks he was probably working on a different rhythm somewhat to Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard, who were more archetypes as it were. He also found a huge appeal in the fact that there is very little point of reference for a guy who works in Hell you can't just shadow somebody for a day or ask someone about it, so he had to carve out his own niche. Fichtner seemed to revel in the fact it's a "hard R", as Americans say.
Fichtner began by saying he had not actually seen the finished film yet he had a chance to recently but decided to go the gym instead! On Drive Angry Fichtner was eager to praise screenwriters Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier for a script that he pretty much fell in love with he admired their invention and also their refusal to change the tone of the film to something more commercial, such that it could be edited down to a PG-13.
While a February 21st embargo means we can't talk about the film just yet, here is a summary of Fichtner's discussion with the crowd. Following last week's press screening of Drive Angry 3D at London's swanky Charlotte Street Hotel, William Fichtner joined the crowd of competition winners and critics for a Q&A about not only the film, but his career so far, his love for cars, the differences between TV and film (having worked extensively in both) and any future work in the pipeline.
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