One Fast Move Director Kelly Blatz on Working With K.J. Apa & Eric Dane By ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to One Fast Move director Kelly Blatz about the .
Blatz discussed the characters, star and Eric Dane, and more. The film begins streaming on Prime Video on August 8, 2024. “One Fast Move is an action-adventure thrill ride about a young man down on his luck who seeks out his estranged father to help him pursue his dream of becoming a professional motorcycle racer,” says the synopsis.
“With the help of his small town love interest and a motorcycle shop owner who moonlights as his mentor, he begins to break down the walls that his father’s absence had built up.” : It was a dream come true to blend both. I mean, that’s where this film came from.
Motorcycles came late in my life. It came in my late twenties, and it really was at a time when I needed them, and I didn’t know it. It was a form of meditation for me.
It was a challenge. It was a part of my identity at that point. Obviously, I love film and was making films and I hadn’t seen a grounded motorcycle racing film.
We’ve had a lot of motorcycle films, even one recently with The Bikeriders, but I hadn’t seen something set in the world of supersport racing. I love great sports dramas like The Fighter, Rocky, and Raging Bull and these are also great character pieces. So my attempt with this was to create a very strong character drama from themes that I was taking from my own life while mixi.