FASTER
Narrated
by Ewan McGregor
Starring
Valentino Rossi, Max Biaggi, Garry McCoy, John Hopkins
Music
by tomandandy and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Written
and directed by Mark Neale
Running
time: 103 minutes
FASTER
is a documentary but it doesn’t feel like one. It has the energy and
intensity of a Hollywood action movie, with the difference that in FASTER
the action and danger are for real
FASTER
is the first feature-length documentary to go inside the MotoGP world since
television took a sport watched by a few thousand spectators at race tracks
and turned it into prime-time entertainment for over 350 million people worldwide.
FASTER
was produced by Los Angeles-based Spark Productions in association with Dorna
Sports SL, the rights-holder for MotoGP and the driving force behind the sport’s
explosive growth over the last decade
The
MotoGP world championship is the pinnacle of motorcycle sport, a series of
sixteen races on five continents contested by twenty-four of the world’s
top riders.
Filmed
around the world during the 2001 and 2002 seasons, FASTER asks this question:
How do you go faster than the rest, how do you win at this glamorous, dangerous
game? The movie could be subtitled: How do you
beat Valentino Rossi? The 24 year old Italian, world champion in 2001 and
2002, currently dominates MotoGP. He
is the biggest star the sport has ever seen and the charismatic centre of
the film.
In
addition to Rossi, FASTER focuses on three other MotoGP riders: Rossi’s
bitter rival Max Biaggi; the brilliant but injury-prone Garry McCoy; and the
rising teenage star John Hopkins. Their stories reveal both the ecstasy and
the terror of life in the insanely fast lane, as do the tales told by a supporting
cast of former world champions including Mick Doohan, Kevin Schwantz, Wayne
Rainey, Kenny Roberts and Barry Sheene.
All
of this makes FASTER much more than a film about the current MotoGP scene.
It is the definitive story of motorcycle racing at the highest level, and
of the handful of men who have what it takes to win.
FASTER
Two wheels. 200MPH. Every man for himself.
