The Cars and Chases of Hit and Run

Shepard: Typically, for a camera car in a movie like this, you would either hire a shotmaker or get a Russian arm. The rental for either of those pieces of equipment is at least $7000 a week. We made our own Russian arm, and it turned out to be the coolest invention of our shoot. We had a big boom on the front of a Polaris RZR-S and a mini crane on the back.

Bell: And then we tied the cameraman to the back of the RZR with a bunch of rope and different belts. And initially there was a huge cheat?there?s a car chase where Dax and Bradley are driving in a hangar. There was supposed to be a delivery of Conex containers that morning so we could weave in and out of them. But they weren?t delivered. So when we got there we had a big open space . . .

Shepard: 1000 feet by 200 feet . . .

Bell: . . . and [without those containers], nothing would happen. The cars would go in and they would just stop, because it?s such a huge open football field. Co-producer Adam Blevins had the idea to go rent 15 U-Hauls. So in keeping with our grassroots production, everybody from the crew loaded up into a passenger van, drove to U-Haul, everybody rented a U-Haul, and drove it back to set, so we ended up getting 25 U-Hauls and then spaced them where the Conex containers were supposed to be so we could do the chase.

Shepard: Problem solved.

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