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MINI on a roller-coaster...Another spectacular
Hollywood project scheduled to open at
Paramount Canada's Wonderland
and Paramount Cincinnati's Kings Island.
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It is
enough to make even a stuntman green with envy. From 2005, visitors to
Paramount Canada's Wonderland in Toronto, Canada and Paramount Kings
Island Parks in Cincinnati, USA will be able to take part in a thrilling
high-speed car chase.
In a unique fast-track coaster experience park
guests will travel in specially designed MINI Cooper S stunt cars.
The
Hollywood project is based on high-action film scenes taken from "The
Italian Job" (2003), starring not only Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron
and
Edward Norton, but also three MINI cars. |
Park visitors will experience a high-speed stunt taking them behind the
scenes of this action film, these having their origin in the film's
hair-raising chase sequences. Visitors will board their own MINI Cooper S,
which is equipped with audio special effects. Once fast-track coaster fans
have fastened their seat belts, the MINIs hit the road to begin their
high-speed chase.
Drivers twist through a parking garage, dodge near-collisions, race down
stairs, chase through tunnels and narrowly escape massive explosions
triggered by gunfire from a menacing helicopter. Tires skid one last time
as the chase and the first attempts at being a stunt driver come to an
end.
Those who already wish to get a foretaste of the MINI stunt track can
experience "The Italian Job" on DVD (available since 4 August 2004). In
this remake of the popular classic film, audiences can see three MINIs - a
red one, a white one and a blue one.
For the film shoot the BMW Group put 32 MINI cars at the disposal of the
Paramount Studios. This product placement is just one of many in a long
corporate tradition: as early as 1972 the BMW Group began hiring out
vehicles for film and TV series production.
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BMW Films...
source: BMW
Canada, 11/30/2004
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