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Mercedes 6-wheeler costars with Michael Douglas
LA Times ^ | 4-16-15 | Charles Flemming

Posted on 04/16/2015 10:36:57 AM PDT by smokingfrog

Producers of the new thriller "Beyond The Reach" needed a villain.

Specifically, they needed a bad guy to costar with Michael Douglas, who plays the murderous multimillionaire out to kill an innocent hunting guide played by Jeremy Irvine.

Requirements for the role included beauty, speed, agility and toughness, and the ability to withstand long shooting days in New Mexico desert near Four Corners.

The casting call led them to a most unusual candidate. Douglas' evil partner in crime is played by a Mercedes 6x6.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 6x6; banglist; deathwatch; g63amg; nm; tx
The film's script, based on the 1972 novel "Death Watch," called for Douglas' character to show up in the desert, ready for a one-man hunting trip, driving a "luxury SUV."
1 posted on 04/16/2015 10:36:57 AM PDT by smokingfrog
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https://youtu.be/5qlFGI5n_C8


2 posted on 04/16/2015 10:37:17 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Hopefully, in the end, the Benz gets HIM.


3 posted on 04/16/2015 10:50:16 AM PDT by IronJack (d)
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To: smokingfrog

Looks like 95% of the movie is shown in the trailer.


4 posted on 04/16/2015 10:55:24 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: IronJack

I have come to hate michael douglas for the characters he portrays. You can’t play the parts like he does without some of that being in you.

It was the same with james mason.


5 posted on 04/16/2015 11:27:46 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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The book was also the basis fo a made for TV movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savages_(1974_film)


6 posted on 04/16/2015 11:32:18 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Sequoyah101

I have come to hate Michael Douglas for being a celibutard hypocrite.


7 posted on 04/16/2015 11:35:50 AM PDT by IronJack
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Is wife is very smoking though, I mean good lord.


8 posted on 04/16/2015 11:52:55 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: smokingfrog

Andy Griffith did it better.


9 posted on 04/16/2015 12:02:30 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: smokingfrog

INTREDASTING!

10 posted on 04/16/2015 12:22:05 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Good Lord indeed.
11 posted on 04/16/2015 12:29:20 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: SkyPilot

Quasi-Jeep Ping.


12 posted on 04/16/2015 12:31:04 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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13 posted on 04/16/2015 12:32:56 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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As I recall, Richard Hammond of Top Gear drove one of these around Dubai for a segment of the show. He loved it.


14 posted on 04/16/2015 12:33:38 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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Of the top of my head I can think of other SUVs that were stars. There was the Kiefermobile in “24” that held all of his whiz bang Double Naught Spy stuff and could get across any city in only a few minutes. There were also the SUVs in “NTSF:SD:SUV.


15 posted on 04/16/2015 12:36:41 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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16 posted on 04/16/2015 12:38:49 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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The armored truck in Fast & Furious was pretty cool.


17 posted on 04/16/2015 12:46:47 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Smokin’ hot, no doubt. But obviously blind. I mean, if she’d pushed a little harder, she coulda had ME ...!


18 posted on 04/16/2015 1:43:37 PM PDT by IronJack
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Wow.


19 posted on 04/16/2015 4:57:44 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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