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Brother Can’t Drive

written by John Chow on March 27, 2007

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Normally, when you see an Enzo Ferrari crash in a movie, it’s a fake. They wouldn’t really crash a real Enzo. However, they do use the real thing during parts of the filming and sometimes the star that’s driving has no idea just how powerful the Enzo is.

Enter Eddie Griffin, the star of several hit movies like Deuce Bigalow, Norbit and House Party 3. He was practicing driving the million dollar Enzo for a charity event to promote his new flick Redline, when he understeered the Ferrari into a Jersey barrier. Afterwards, Griffin joking admits, “Brother can’t drive.”

I wonder how much the repair bill is going to be?

Here’s the official trailer for the Redline movie. It opens April 13.

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the insurance company has to be pissed.

So Eddie can't drive in a pseudo-controlled environment. Has anybody seen him drive on the freeway? :shock:

:cool: Brotha cant drive...

The video is real. The guy was on his cell phone. This video was also featured on either Jay Leno or Craig Ferguson..

I love how the guy doesn't even flinch.. Cause he's on his phone.

Dudes the video is a fake!! Check the guy standing at beginning of the video. He doesn't move at all when the car crashes...

Watch again.. it's not fake!

Saw that last night on The Hour (http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/) and laughed my ass off.

This is not funny dude! We're talking about an Enzo here.. :evil:

Wow. I threw up in my mouth a little...just like I did when that Lambo blew up in The Transporter 2.

Considering the overblown budgets of Hollywood movies these days, I'm sure the cost of the car will just be "folded in" somewhere. I bet the producer gets a new one pretty quickly!

Here's an interesting question though. Who set up the pylons 10 feet away from concrete barriers???

If you watch F1, there's more an more runoff room built into tracks for safety reasons. The result is far fewer cars shattering into walls like this.

Not that I'm defending Eddie's driving or anything, but they sure didn't give him much space for any error.

and him being a novice driver with no experience in a car that had this much power...can't really fault him completely.

It didn't seem like he was going that fast, but the car exploded like a firecracker!

You have to remember that the car is made out of Carbon Fiber - it's very brittle - it's not steel!

Yep, carbon fibre is designed to shatter like that to dissipate energy better in the event that you do something ridiculous like drive it into a concrete barrier...

Oh man!! The sound of the carbon fiber crashing on the concrete block... heart breaking!!!! :sad:

Thank God he didn't kill himself!

Woo!

Where's the rack and pinion steering on that Enzo mug?

Brotha can't drive...

NOBODY can talk about women drivers again...in life...forever...and ever...

That is going to be one hefty repair bill. Maybe he has never driven a performance car before.
Hope he can afford it. That really sucks wouldn't want to be in his shoes. :neutral:

Das Brain

I don't think a "repair" will be possible.

Silly Eddie, Ferrari's are not meant for that now!

Sorry to be off topic... but you should buy they domain'

JC.com

It would be classic!

Matt

Like there are any two letter domains available for renewal lol

Deuce Bigalow- Worldwide gross $92 mil (US $65 mil)- Budget only $17 mil- plus a DVD Hit

Norbit- World Wide $137 mil ($95 mil US)- $60 mil budget

Probably qualify as "hits"

Just goes to show you, a movie doesn't have to be good to be a financial success :)

Do those budgets include thinks like advertising or just the cost of the production?

The marketing and distribution costs are usually not included in the production costs. Then again, creative accounting is used to ensure that people who are suing to recover the film's net profits get nothing. :twisted:

I should be in the filming industry! :wink:

"Hit movies"? I must disagree on that :)

For one I'm surprised the car didn't cut in half (jk - you'll only get that if you've seen the other Enzo crashes)...and two, for the amount of PR they are getting for this, it may be worth the $1.5million wasted on the car!

We'll see how ticket sales on the movie are.

and they gotta invite you to buy one...

One has to wonder if this was a setup or not. Who honestly heard of this movie before yesterday? Yeah, exactly. That is $1.5 million pretty well spent if you ask me.

I heard of it about a month ago, and this was the producer's personal car - a car that's not made anymore! I doubt it was staged...

I doubt it was staged too, but they definitely are getting a lot of free publicity out of it.

Not if you ask the owner... Besides, even if we've all now heard of it, are any of us going to watch it? Not me...

What was the cost of producing the movie?

Don't you think its a bit costly for that?

And I mean not just the monetary aspect. :sad:

I doubt it - the car cost US$643,330!

From Ferrari it was, but now they go for well over a million. You had to be on a multi-year waiting list for an Enzo and own an F40 and F50 to even have a chance of buying one directly from Ferrari.

Every time another Enzo is crashed, the price rises bcuz they become more rare.

Absolutely not. Far too precious a car for that. As mentioned the waiting list was long and you had to submit a resume to Ferrari as they chose the people who would be allowed to purchase them. Theoretically so that things like this wouldn't happen with novice drivers...