Logan Lucky is a 2017 American sports star comedy crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh. It produced by Gregory Jacobs, Mark Johnson, Channing Tatum, and Reid Carolin. About this film of the consists like Adam Driver, Channing Tatum, Seth MacFarlane, Katie Holmes, Riley Keough, Katherine Waterston, Sebastian Stan, Dwight Yoakam, Brian Gleeson with Jack Quaid, Hilary Swank and Daniel Craig. This film a plot later, Logan family and their attempt to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway whilst avoiding security officers and the FBI.
This film premieres on August 9, 2017 on the Knoxville Premiere. It releases August 18, 2017 on theatrical release. This film received acclaim/positive reviews from film critics who praises Channing's Comedy and Steven's Director but was criticized a few minutes a sports film and it grossed $48.5 million in worldwide against the budget in $29 million.
Plot[]
West Virginian Jimmy Logan is laid off from his construction job in the tunnels underneath the Charlotte Motor Speedway. He is close to his daughter, Sadie, who lives with her mom Bobbie Jo, her stepfather Moody, and her two younger half brothers. Sadie performs in beauty pageants, and Jimmy's hair stylist sister, Mellie, does her hair. Bobbie Jo and Moody plan on moving to Lynchburg as Moody plans to open up a new dealership.
Jimmy goes to the Duck Tape Grill & Bar, where his brother, Clyde, tends bar. Clyde, a war veteran and amputee missing the lower part of his left arm, believes the Logan family is cursed. A NASCAR-team owner, Max Chilblain, enters the bar with two friends and makes fun of Clyde's disability. Jimmy defends his brother and starts a fight; Clyde grabs a bottle from the bar and heads outside to set Max's car on fire. Max and his friends run outside to see the car burning and start filming the scene. Jimmy grabs their phones and throws them into the fire, then turns to Clyde and says "cauliflower."
The next day Jimmy tells Clyde his plan to rob the Speedway by exploiting his knowledge of the underground pneumatic tube system used to move the Speedway's vast amount of money.
Clyde and Jimmy recruit a team for the robbery: Their sister Mellie, incarcerated safe-cracker Joe Bang, and, at Joe's request, Joe's dimwitted brothers Sam and Fish. Clyde gets himself intentionally sent to prison on a minor charge. The plan is to break Joe and Clyde out of prison for the robbery and return them to prison later in the day; Joe recruits an inmate to orchestrate a riot on the day of the robbery as a distraction. With the (unknowing) help of a woman working in the vault, Mellie, Sam, and Fish infest the Speedway's tube system with painted cockroaches to determine which tubes go to the vault. While gathering supplies, Jimmy meets former schoolmate Sylvia Harrison, who gives him a free tetanus shot inside her mobile clinic, which is in need of donations. Jimmy learns that construction at the speedway is being completed ahead of schedule, forcing them to mount the heist a week earlier, during the much busier Coca-Cola 600 race on Memorial Day weekend.
On the day of the robbery, the inmate recruited by Joe starts a fight which results in a lockdown that hides Joe's and Clyde's escape. Mellie meets them in a Ford Shelby GT350 "borrowed" from Moody. At the speedway, Sam and Fish blow up a generator to disable the credit card machines, forcing vendors to accept cash only. Clyde, Jimmy, and Joe enter the tube room, and Joe uses an explosive improvised from bleach, gummy bears, and a dietary salt substitute to blow open the gate from the tube to the vault. They connect the tube to a giant vacuum pump, and suck up all the cash into garbage bags. Security guards investigate the smoke from the explosion, but are diverted by Earl, one of Clyde's bar patrons. Jimmy accidentally reverses the direction of the vacuum, sucking Clyde's prosthetic arm into the machine. Sam and Fish get the money out and into Jimmy's truck. On their way out, Chilblain recognizes Clyde and Clyde hits him; Clyde and Joe sneak back into the prison disguised as firefighters dispatched to deal with a kitchen fire that the prisoners set. Jimmy makes it to his daughter's pageant just in time to see her perform his favorite song, "Take Me Home, Country Roads." Jimmy then abandons the money and anonymously informs the police of its location.
FBI agent Sarah Grayson investigates the heist, dubbed "Ocean's Seven-Eleven" in the press. She suspects Jimmy, Clyde, and Joe, but she has no evidence. Although Chilblain claims he saw Clyde at the Speedway, his disgruntled racecar driver, Dayton White (who wrecked due to a sugar crash caused by Chilblain's energy drink), tells the FBI that he was not with Chilblain at the time and has no idea what he's talking about. The prison warden refuses to report the riot, claiming there was a small kitchen fire at the prison on that day and nothing more. After six months, the Speedway President receives an insurance payout and is satisfied; the case is officially closed. When Joe returns home after being released from prison he finds a garbage bag of money buried in his yard. Sylvia receives an anonymous donation for her clinic, the inmate who started the riot receives an envelope stuffed with cash, and the unwitting vault employee receives a cake box full of cash.
Unknown to the Bangs, Jimmy (with Clyde and Mellie's help) filled another set of trash bags with cash during the heist and hid them at the dump to retrieve later. Jimmy determined the coast was clear once his phone service was cut off; he figured the phone company wouldn't cut his service so long as the FBI wanted to tap his line. Jimmy and Clyde then went to retrieve the money. The movie ends with Jimmy, who now works at a Lowe's store near his daughter and ex-wife's home in Lynchburg, Virginia, happily reuniting with the crew (and Sylvia, with whom he is now in a relationship) at Clyde's bar. The group is watched by Grayson, who does a shot with Clyde and tells him she's new to the area but thinks she will stay for a while.
Cast[]
- Channing Tatum as Jimmy Logan
- Adam Driver as Clyde Logan
- Daniel Craig as Joe Bang
- Riley Keough as Meelie Logan
- Katie Holmes as Bobbie Jo Chapman
- Katherine Waterston as Sylvia Harrison
- Dwight Yoakam as Warden Burns
- Seth MacFarlane as Max Chilblain
- Sebastian Stan as Dayton White
- Brian Gleeson as Sam Bang
- Jack Quaid as Fish Bang
- Hilary Swank as Sarah Grayson
- Farrah McKenzie as Sadie Logan
- David Denman as Moody Chapman
- Jim O'Heir as Mr Cal
- Macon Blair as Brad Noonan
- Charles Halford as Mr Earl
- Fox NASCAR commentators as themselves:
- Jeff Gordon
- Darrell Waltrip
- Mike Joy
- Adam Alexander
- Six other NASCAR drivers make cameo appearances in the film. Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch are West Virginia state troopers, Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano are security guards, Kyle Larson is a limousine driver, and Ryan Blaney is a delivery boy. LeAnn Rimes and Jesco White also make cameo appearances.
Production[]
Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra (2013) was intended to be his final film as director. Soderbergh has said that he was initially given the Logan Lucky script in hopes that he could recommend a suitable director for the project, but he enjoyed reading it and decided to take it on for himself, specifically noting that it was an "anti-glam version of an Ocean's movie". He told Entertainment Weekly, "Nobody dresses nice. Nobody has nice stuff. They have no money. They have no technology. It's all rubber band technology." At the time, Soderbergh was also theorizing a new distribution model and felt that the script gave him the perfect opportunity to do so.
The film was announced in February 2016, along with Channing Tatum's casting. Variety initially reported that Matt Damon was also to star, although Deadline Hollywood reported the same day that Damon was not involved, but rather Michael Shannon. Shannon later left the project due to scheduling conflicts. Much of the rest of the cast was announced between that May and August, among them Seth MacFarlane, Adam Driver and Daniel Craig in May, Hilary Swank in June, and Jim O'Heir in August.
Screenplay[]
There has been media speculation regarding the identity of the film's screenwriter, Rebecca Blunt. The film's production notes state that she is a native of Logan, West Virginia who now lives in New York City, and that she is a first-time screenwriter. No one other than Soderbergh and Adam Driver has personally vouched for her existence. Some people involved with the film have exchanged emails with a person they believed to be her, and think that she lives in the United Kingdom. Sources speculated that "Rebecca Blunt" was actually a pseudonym for Soderbergh's wife Jules Asner, for comedian John Henson, or for Soderbergh himself. According to The Playlist, Asner was the sole screenwriter and chose to use a pseudonym because she did not want the perception of the film to be that "Soderbergh was directing his wife's script." Soderbergh denied the claim that Rebecca Blunt was not a real person.
Filming[]
Logan Lucky began filming on August 24, 2016. Production lasted 36 days, with much of the photography taking place at the Charlotte Motor Speedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway during the NASCAR race meetings at both circuits. The Atlanta outside barriers were repainted yellow, in an attempt to resemble Charlotte; the Charlotte track had yellow walls owing to then NASCAR's premiership title sponsor Sprint (they have since been replaced with white walls); Atlanta has white walls with red and blue pattern for Folds of Honor, the charity that is involved with (now spring) race sponsor QuikTrip. The scenes with the Fox commentators inside the commentary box were shot in Atlanta, because in Charlotte, the commentators are typically positioned on top of the grandstand roof for opening broadcast scenes and also since the road course can be seen from the Charlotte commentary box.
Music[]
David Holmes composed the score for Logan Lucky, having previously scored other Soderbergh films, including Out of Sight, the Ocean's Trilogy, and Haywire. The soundtrack was released by Milan Records; it includes the cue "Original Score Medley" by David Holmes, and music by various artists. The film features "Flashing Lights" by Screaming Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends.
Release[]
This film premieres on Knoxville in August 9, 2017 arrives on United States. It releases film will be August 18, 2017 in theatrical release by Bleecker Street.
Home Media[]
Logan Lucky was released on digital download on November 14, 2017, and on DVD, Blu-ray, and Ultra HD Blu-ray on November 28, 2017.
Reception[]
Box Office[]
Logan Lucky grossed $27.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $19.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $47.5 million, against a production budget of $29 million.
In North America, the film was released alongside The Hitman's Bodyguard, and was projected to gross $7–9 million from 3,008 theaters in its opening weekend. Having already covered the cost of the production budget through international advance sales, and the costs of prints and advertising through a deal with Amazon, Soderbergh said a debut of $15 million would be needed to be considered a success. The film grossed $2.8 million on its first day (including $525,000 from Thursday night previews). It went on to open to $7.6 million, finishing third at the box office, behind The Hitman's Bodyguard and Annabelle: Creation. In its second weekend, the film took in $4.2 million, dropping 44.2% and finishing 5th, in what was the lowest combined grossing weekend (for the top 10 films) since September 2001. During the following weekend, which preceded Labor Day, the film made $4.4 million over three days (an increase of 4%), and an estimated $5.5 million over the four-day weekend. It was again part of a historically low weekend, as it was the worst combined holiday weekend since 1998.
Critical Reception[]
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 92% based on reviews from 282 critics, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "High-octane fun that's smartly assembled without putting on airs, Logan Lucky marks a welcome end to Steven Soderbergh's retirement — and proves he hasn't lost his ability to entertain." On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating to reviews, the film has a score of 78 out of 100, based on reviews from 51 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it an 80% overall positive score.
Owen Gleiberman of Variety gave the film a positive review, writing, "Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky is a high-spirited, low-down blast." Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, saying, "This is a good-times film that doesn't put on airs, dress to impress or pretend to be something it isn't. It just aims to please and does a pretty good job of it." Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film three-and-a-half out of four stars, praising the smooth direction and efficiency of storytelling Soderbergh brought to the film, and stating that other than needing additional scenes to give its "oddball characters" more depth, [Logan Lucky is] a precision-tooled entertainment made by experts, and sometimes more than that. Watching it is like finding money in the pocket of a coat that you haven't worn in years." Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called it "a terrific, twisty, funny-as-hell crime flick about so-called hicks who decide that making America great again starts right at home." Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: "Logan Lucky is great fun and one of the most purely entertaining movies of the year."
Rex Reed of The New York Observer was critical of the film, and described Soderbergh as an overrated director. Reed complained that the film takes a slower pace than Ocean's Eleven, and although he praised the camera work, music and ham acting, he concluded, "It doesn't work. Logan Lucky is as charming and welcome as toenail fungus."