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Logan Lucky: How Soderbergh pulled off this NASCAR heist movie. When Steven Soderbergh asked NASCAR to wave a green flag over his upcoming heist comedy, “Logan Lucky,” executives for the sport had just one condition: Don’t make us look bad. No problem, the director assured them. It’s simply a yarn about three down- on- their- luck siblings attempting a robbery at the Coca- Cola 6. Charlotte, with a small band of eccentric co- conspirators. The whole idea “doesn’t benefit at all from me doing a takedown of NASCAR.

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That’s not what the movie’s about,” Soderbergh said as he sipped a second cucumber gimlet last week at The Ritz- Carlton Charlotte, shortly before introducing a screening at Studio Movie Grill.“I want to treat NASCAR like the Bellagio hotel in ‘Ocean’s Eleven.’ ”So NASCAR gave the thumbs up, and the man who most famously directed “Ocean’s Eleven” through “Thirteen” set to work putting a gleeful redneck twist on those crime capers. He traded in a debonair George Clooney in a Giorgio Armani suit for a disheveled Channing Tatum in a pair of Carhartt overalls; a team of cosmopolitan career criminals for a bunch of West Virginia rednecks; and one of Las Vegas’s most storied hotels – the Bellagio – for one of auto racing’s most storied tracks: Charlotte Motor Speedway. Channing Tatum and Adam Driver on the set of Steven Soderbergh’s “Logan Lucky.” Claudette Barius Fingerprint Releasing Bleecker Street “Logan Lucky” opens nationwide on Aug. First- time screenwriter Rebecca Blunt picked Charlotte Motor Speedway, according to the production notes (the mysterious writer has not yet given an interview of any kind), after reading the true story of a 3. She conflated that with a childhood fascination with the pneumatic tubes her mom used at the bank drive- through, and imagined in her story that the speedway in Concord moves around massive amounts of cash via a maze- like network of the things. The tubes. And the cash. Bleecker Street Then she set the heist during the Coca- Cola 6. The Black Swan Full Movie there.

And finally, she threw in a bunch of hillbillies. In fact, her original working title was “Hillbilly Heist.” (It’s worth noting that that was also used as a nickname for the 1. Loomis Fargo robbery, a real N. C. crime that became the basis for the 2. Masterminds,” starring Zach Galifianakis. But that’s another story. The hillbillies, in this case, are small- town West Virginians played by an all- star cast with quirks as fantastical as the speedway’s cash- flow system: Tatum, cut like a Greek god in “Magic Mike,” sports a paunch as down- on- his- luck coal miner/divorced dad Jimmy Logan, who discovers the tubes while working a temp job repairing sinkholes underneath it.

Adam Driver, so merciless as Kylo Ren in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” sports a prosthetic limb as Jimmy’s bartending brother Clyde. Daniel Craig – best known as Bond. James Bond. – sports a peroxide buzz cut and a Southern accent as an explosives expert who can only help with the robbery if the boys break him out of prison. With “Logan Lucky,” Daniel Craig – shown here with director Steven Soderbergh – got a chance to play against type as incarcerated explosives expert Joe Bang. Claudette Barius Fingerprint Releasing Bleecker Street Katie Holmes, Riley Keough, Seth Mac.

Farlane, Hilary Swank, Katherine Waterston and Dwight Yoakam also have key roles. For Soderbergh – who in addition to the “Ocean’s” movies won an Oscar in 2. Traffic” – “Logan Lucky” marks his first movie in four years, since he announced his retirement from filmmaking over frustrations with the studio process. The 5. 4- year- old auteur came back for this one because he figured out a way to make a movie while completely sidestepping that process (see accompanying sidebar). Still, Soderbergh did have the NASCAR hoop to jump through. It wasn’t a terribly tough sell – especially after Soderbergh wooed the sport’s suits by bringing Tatum to the initial meeting – but Zane Stoddard, NASCAR’s vice president for entertainment marketing, said there were definitely some concerns: “We wanted to make sure that Steven and the production could get into these fun, lovable characters while keeping big, glossy NASCAR separate from that, so that we’re on the inside of the joke, as opposed to making fun of our sport.”Soderbergh set them at ease, but also asked them to trust him.

I’m making a comedy,” he told them. We’re not making a documentary. You’ve gotta find a way to make it a smile.”Actors Seth Mac.

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Farlane and Sebastian Stan face off under the watchful eye of director Steven Soderbergh. Claudette Barius Fingerprint Releasing Bleecker Street And so you’ll still see wackadoo supporting characters like Dayton White (Sebastian Stan), a health- conscious ace driver who treats his body like a computer operating system, and Max Chilblain (Seth Mac. Farlane), an arrogant sponsor of White’s with a penchant for picking on the disabled. But they’re not ridiculing NASCAR; they’re just plain ridiculous. Fortunately for Soderbergh, NASCAR got the jokes, and opened its tracks to him.

Close- up race sequences were shot at the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga., with Soderbergh – acting as his own director of photography – manning cameras mounted to the body of a Porsche Cayenne doing 1. Race cars line up at Atlanta Motor Speedway during the filming of Steven Soderbergh’s “Logan Lucky.” Claudette Barius Fingerprint Releasing Bleecker Street Meanwhile, anything that looks like it had to have been shot during the actual race was almost certainly shot at the actual race. In May 2. 01. 6, Soderbergh brought five camera units, Tatum and co- star Riley Keough (who plays his character’s hairdresser sister, Mellie) to Charlotte Motor Speedway for the Coca- Cola 6. We’d spent a lot of time prepping the shoot. Watch Laugh At My Pain Streaming more. I’d made the list of all the shots that I wanted, and we drew out on a map where everybody should be at what point during the day,” Soderbergh said.

NASCAR’s only concern was that we be low- impact and that we be safe. They’re in the middle of a (sporting event). You don’t want to be the thing that somebody points to and says, ‘Something went wrong because these guys were in our way.’ ”In fact, at an event like that, there are cameras everywhere all day, so Soderbergh and his crew were able to blend in somewhat easily. The surprise was that Tatum did, too.“He’s never really looked like that in a movie,” said Soderbergh, whose A- list star gained weight and drew from a disheveled wardrobe for “Logan Lucky.” “So no, he was just walking around; people didn’t even recognize him.”Adam Driver stars as Clyde Logan and Channing Tatum as Jimmy Logan in Steven Soderbergh’s “Logan Lucky.” Claudette Barius Fingerprint Releasing Bleecker Street Soderbergh took the establishing shots from Charlotte and the action shots from Atlanta, then mashed them up with scenes he filmed in the catacombs of the Georgia World Congress Center (subbing in for the track’s underground tunnels) and scenes he filmed in a warehouse soundstage where his effects team had built a fully functioning pneumatic tube system. The end result makes it look, via movie magic, like the entire heist was shot at Charlotte Motor Speedway.