Abstract
- “Pace is Costly” is a documentary narrated by Ewan McGregor about the most costly motorbike buy in historical past.
- The documentary explores the legacy of Vincent Bikes and their founder Philip Vincent, who used unconventional advertising and marketing techniques to advertise his model.
- McGregor, a motorbike fanatic, has a historical past of collaborating in motorbike documentaries, together with the favored collection “Lengthy Approach Up.”
Actor and motorbike fanatic Ewan McGregor narrates the story of the most costly purchase within the historical past of bikes within the trailer for Pace is Costly, an acclaimed documentary popping out on digital on September 26, following its LA premiere on September 20. Again in 2018, the world of bike collectors modified endlessly when an Australian collector purchased a Vincent Black Lightning for $1.2 million. However Pace is Costly not solely facilities on this legendary buy, however the man behind the well-known motorcycle.
In the course of the 1940 and Fifties, Vincent Bikes broke a number of data, with Philip Vincent being one of many first males ever to make use of a method often known as “guerrilla advertising and marketing”, placing his firm ahead as a sponsor for avenue racers underneath the radar, as a way to promote his personal model. However Vincent’s obsession with velocity led to him spending his ultimate years with no cash and dwelling in a public home.
Star Wars alum Ewan McGregor, who’s a motorbike aficionado, narrates the documentary, which additionally consists of testimonies from TV host Jay Leno; artist, musician and motorcyclist Paul Simonon from acclaimed band The Conflict; and the ultimate interview of world champion John Surtees, who handed away in 2017.
Director David Lancaster shared some emotional phrases whereas saying the premiere of the movie:
“It’s great to have the ability to convey the movie to North America with Virgil Movies. Over the previous years we’ve crossed the globe, from the USA to Australia, to movie the world’s most costly, thrilling and exquisite bikes and speak to Philip Vincent’s household and remaining colleagues as a way to convey Vincent’s story to the display screen.”
Jay Leno additionally had some extraordinarily constructive feedback on the documentary:
“It appears nice: shifting footage of Philip Vincent actually brings the story alive – beloved it!”
Try the official trailer for Pace is Costly beneath courtesy of Vimeo:
Ewan Mcgregor’s Expertise with Bikes & Documentaries
This is not the primary time that McGregor has participated on a documentary about bikes. In 2004, he produced and starred together with Charlie Boorman in Lengthy Approach Up, a docuseries centered on his journey throughout Europe, Asia, Alaska, Canada and New York driving a motorbike.
In 2007, Lengthy Approach Down was launched, with the pair going from Scotland to Africa, ending their journey in Cape City. Lastly, in 2020 they took one other documented journey from Ushuaia in Argentina to Los Angeles, crossing nearly each nation in Latin America in a second a part of Lengthy Approach Up. This time, the documentary premiered on Apple TV+, the place it’s at present out there to look at.
This is not additionally the primary time he lends his voice to relate a documentary both. He is been a part of tasks like Jerusalem: Metropolis of Religion and Fury, Highlands: Scotland’s Wild Coronary heart, and The Polar Bears of Churchill with Ewan McGregor, amongst others.
McGregor is understood for taking part in the position of Obi-Wan Kenobi within the second Star Wars trilogy and the 2022 collection, though he has been appearing from a younger age and starred in another acclaimed films corresponding to Transpotting, Black Hawk Down, Massive Fish, Moulin Rouge, or the acclaimed sequel for The Shining, Physician Sleep.
