Torque Article from CHUD.com

Rapper-actor-producer-writer-director Ice Cube will add another skill to his hyphenate: motorcycle gang leader.

The six-sided polygon of frozen water (born O'Shea Jackson) is set to take the lead role in the Warner Bros. bike racing flick Torque. Director Joseph Kahn will be lensing the action, described by me as "The Fast and the Furious on two wheels". Mr. Cube will play the main man in a fearsome biker gang known as The Machine.

The project, set to start filming next month, will also star Jay Hernandez, who sexed up Kirsten Dunst in crazy/beautiful, and Matt Schulze, known as a member of the Bloodpack in Blade II and one of Vin Diesel's thieving goons in the aforementioned The Fast and the Furious. Ice Cube himself has a whole bunch of other upcoming projects he's either starring in or producing, including the comedy Barbershop and another Friday movie.

As to the title of the film, for those non-motorheads out there, the term "torque" refers to a twisting force, usually in regards to the power of a motor. Torque was also the name of a sidekick character with a mechanical hand on the fairly crappy late-70s Robert Conrad show "A Man Called Sloane", and the fact that I can recall that useless information but can't remember to pay my light bill truly distresses me.