20 Things You Didn't Know About Drive

11. Neil Marshall Was Originally Supposed To Direct

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Back when Drive was first being put together back in 2008 and Hugh Jackman was still in the picture, Universal had an entirely different kind of filmmaker in mind to helm.

Neil Marshall, who would go on to direct two of the most acclaimed Game of Thrones episodes ("Blackwater" and "The Watchers on the Wall"), had only three low-budget genre films to his name at the time - Dog Soldiers, The Descent, and Doomsday.

Despite his success with those movies, it's still tough to picture quite what Universal saw in him for Drive, and even beyond the casting and budgeting differences, the tone of Marshall's film would've clearly been nothing like Refn's.

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