Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a bicycle messenger whose life is on the line in Premium Rush, an action film co-written and directed by David Koepp. Columbia Pictures’ Premium Rush also features Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, and Jamie Chung, and is set to hit theaters on August 24, 2012.
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The Plot:
Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work for Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the best of New York’s agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie – super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic. But a guy who’s used to putting his life on the line is about to get more than even he is used to when his last envelope of the day – a routine “premium rush” run – turns into a life or death chase through the streets of Manhattan.
