As most readers will know Top Gear recently embarked on its latest world tour with their Live show. But, if the Mail Online is to be believed Top Gear will soon be setting off another global challenge. This time, though, it won’t be broadcast on your television screens. No, apparently, Top Gear have plans to make a full length feature film. The flick has already been anointed with the working title of “Around the world in 80 cars”.
The premise of the movie challenge will see Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May circumnavigate the globe in the cheapest and most unreliable cars available.
A Top Gear source has been quoted as saying, “Jeremy and the boys have become increasingly involved in outrageous stunts – but this will be their toughest. Driving around the world in different clapped-out cars will be no mean feat and should make the perfect road movie.”
In a move sure to raise the ire of recent critic Jeremy Bass, the source continued, “A feature-length film of the boys’ adventures is something that can be released in cinemas all over the world. It will also be a guaranteed big-seller on DVD when it is released, and that is a growing market.”
Given Jeremy Clarkson’s role in Love the beast, one wonders if the Top Gear leading man was inspired by Eric Bana’s foray into feature length car movie making.
Whether this rumour proves true or not may be another thing altogether. Filming a movie-length challenge that takes in numerous continents will place huge time demands on the stars and crew. Can they find the time? And, more importantly, can they make it work?
UPDATE 11 January: It appears as though the Top Gear movie plans may have been the fantasy of a Daily Mail reporter. At least, that’s what the chaps at Final Gear are speculating. The link below is now dead, so it may be safe to assume the worldwide special plans are now bunk.
[Source: Mail Online]
8 replies on “Top Gear movie – Around the world in 80 cars?”
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I think this attempt of around the world in 80 cars film is a fantastic idea of making the first ever top gear movie. It will attract more viewers the show will become more popular. I am really looking forward to it. If it really happens. Come on Clarkson you can be the first person to do ahead of Hamster with his expensive white teeth and captain slow.
Considering the crap car challenges, in whatever form, are generally their best stuff, this could be absolutely brilliant.
The Vietnam Special was 90 minutes long. It wouldnt be hard to fill that or more going to a number of different countries and using a heap of different cars. Should, if past specials are anything to go by, be really cool.
[nitpick] I think the Vietnam special was only 75 minutes [/nitpick]
…but yes, your point is still valid.
I like the idea of making a series long special, 7 eps or so, haha.
Great concept.
I sick of newspapers making stuff up it got me excited to think top gear were making a movie 🙁
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