The Unofficial Matt Schulze Fan Club

02/25/04
According to comingsoon.net, Torque has a US DVD release date of May 18, 2004. Excellent!
Keep an eye on this page for chat information. We're hoping to host a release party in the chatroom within a couple of weeks of the release.

First, a quick blurb about Matt in the review at Variety:

Now Ford is back, wanting to reconnect with his sweetie. But Henry -- who vividly recalls Willem Dafoe's wild-eyed bad boy in Walter Hill's "Streets of Fire" (1984) -- is still around and very determined to retrieve his property.

Torque
Directed by Joseph Kahn

Anybody who cares about movies should love this January. Contrary to perennial cliché, the past week premiered films more surprising and stimulating than December’s bloated and unpalatable prestige flicks. Torque and Teacher’s Pet slipped in under the fence, offering imagination and pleasure with relatively little hype and absolutely no pretense. Even the somber Iranian social critique Crimson Gold exemplifies filmmaking of unusual seriousness, complementing the real-life commitment in the re-released The Battle of Algiers.

P.J. Hogan’s marvelous Peter Pan also figures in my January count, having missed it during the holiday rush. (Too bad critics who saw it neglected to bring the news; they’d shot their wads at The Return of the King and were too bleary-eyed to appreciate Hogan’s superior uses of enchantment.) Torque and Teacher’s Pet almost feel like palate-cleansers.

An action movie deluxe and a cartoon extraordinaire, they appear as reminders of why you liked movies in the first place. Each film is a marvel of visual wit–the daily world imaginatively transformed. That’s a quality often taken for granted by plot-obsessed filmgoers unaccustomed to appreciating the way movies look and feel. To dismiss Torque and Teacher’s Pet because of their genres would only display self-denying pseudo-sophistication. (Calling Torque mindless is like complaining Jason Kidd isn’t Bertrand Russell.) You don’t get filmmaking this spectacular at Sundance–and lately not at the cineplexes, either. After lugubrious experiences like The Last Samurai and The Triplets of Belleville, I hadn’t expected to like these newest adventure and fantasy films, but I beheld their insouciance with wide-eyed delight.

The chrome credits in the title sequence of Torque start the fascination. As if lifted off the gas tank of the hero’s V-Twin engine Aprilia Mille RSV motorcycle (a dazzling Italian import), the gleaming credits reflect both the rider and the roadside zooming past him. Movie credits are non-diegetic, yet these infiltrate the story that unfolds. Director Joseph Kahn uses emblematic credits to visualize the real world and its dizzying stylization.

Torque is a B-movie in the Xbox era. Decades ago, films like this tended toward morality tales (Walter Hill perfected the tradition in his pulp epics The Warriors and Streets of Fire), but now the genre has been distilled to playful gestures (the challenge, the chase) and to fictional stereotypes (the loner, the badass). Torque leaves the comparative realism of 2001’s sleekly-designed The Fast and the Furious in the dust. Kahn, another music video ace, has done the near improbable: In this debut film, he transitions to features–MTV vocabulary intact–but without degrading the big screen. He shows that imagery, motion and editing must be clever–not merely fast. His understanding of cinematic composition avoids the messy incoherence of Moulin Rouge or anything by Michael Bay.

Kahn outdoes McG by making a clear-cut and short McMovie. Torque’s images explode before your eyes–huge!–which, aesthetically, is as good as a fresh idea expanding in your head. The action-movie motifs are not new–outlaw cyclist Cary Ford (Martin Henderson) outruns rival gangs and the FBI in pursuit of a grail-like bike–yet Kahn makes the clichés scintillating through cartoon-tv commercial-music video shorthand. Hero Ford (he’s dubbed "Dawson Creek, the white boy") boasts the long-haired, light-eyed, Hollywood-Jesus look in a Ramones t-shirt. His adversary, always referred to by his nervy full name Henry James (played by Matt Schulze), wears a Motorhead t-shirt. When their women, Monet Mazur and Jaime Pressly, face off, the females shout their taunts respectively in front of gigantic Mountain Dew and Pepsi ads. We’re in the poster-art world of trademarks, simply signifying pop culture’s primacy. Ford struts by a graffiti-scrawl that reads "Weargasm" which is either product-placement or an edict, yet no more serious than the "Carpe Diem" inlay on his red and black leather jacket.

Only a humorless prig would be appalled by this. More interesting than the pastel Neverland of Elephant, it is, face it, definitive. Torque’s emphasis on kinetics connotes an ease with capitalist perks that amounts to nonchalance. The "need for speed" that Tom Cruise serenaded in Top Gun no longer justifies militarism, but reveals today’s apolitical condition. You could call it ignorant or you can admit its amazement: A shot of two bluffing bikers (Ice Cube and Fredro Starr) catches their competition in either side of a reflecting knife blade. One fight scene ends with a biker’s weary head pinned against a wall blaring the slogan "YIKES!" Of Torque’s several wild chases, the most astonishing is between Ford and Henry James (dig that!) motoring their bikes atop a train. This won me over. Kahn, the neo-aesthete, joins a great movie tradition, evoking its locomotive/cinematic origins (mechanical and artistic discoveries from the time of Ford and James). In this single sequence, Torque’s pop references go from The Great Train Robbery to Spies, The Lady Vanishes to North by Northwest, Barocco to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade to Mission: Impossible. Those Who Love it will want to ride this train again.

Throughout Torque, Kahn achieves an exhilarating combination of Pop and Art, but not like Tarantino, who has confused that modernist concept. QT doesn’t have Kahn’s innocence, nor that pop stylist’s purity that connects to Rauschenberg and Rosenquist. Unlike QT’s martial arts genocide in Kill Bill, Kahn (who is Korean-American) shows an interest in social antagonism (black and white racist subcults fight over drugs and bikes) that resolves all misunderstanding through the common cause of motor power. Speed gives the illusion of capitalist liberty–the very thing that draws multiculti teens to this kind of movie.

Pop art on this level isn’t merely about character or social frustration but about the enthusiasms–and mysteries–that people hold in common. Every scene is in cultural code, as when Ice Cube jealously catches his girlfriend eyeing another biker. (Her charge "I love you!" asserts her sexual prerogative but defies his machismo with her sincerity. Very cool.)

Kahn’s imagery, shot by Peter Levy, stays similarly optimistic, as iridescent as a soap bubble in sunlight. You gotta smile at it. He keeps the hard-driving action sporty: Cars swerve on the highway like pinball levers; a bike race though a palm tree grove is strangely paradisiacal. In one terrific chase, Kahn pans leftward following an FBI helicopter in the distance so that it seems to fly along the nickel-plated barrel of a gun in the foreground. Usually only other filmmakers attuned to visual wit appreciate this kind of cinema, so I’ll speak for Godard on this: Kahn forges the values of militarism, technology, masculine will–and the motorcycle showroom–into big-screen ecstacy.

01/19/04
According to the Latino Review and yahoonews, Torque came in third this weekend! Hurray!

The lowdown:

January 07, 2004 05:57 PM US Eastern Timezone

Save the Date! ``Torque'' World Premiere Wednesday, January 14, 2004

for Wednesday (Jan. 14)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

WHAT:     Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Village 
          Roadshow Pictures, a Neal H. Moritz production.  Torque 
          stars MARTIN HENDERSON, ICE CUBE, MONET MAZUR, ADAM SCOTT, 
          MATT SCHULZE, JAIME PRESSLY and JAY HERNANDEZ.  The film is 
          directed by JOSEPH KAHN and produced by NEAL H. MORITZ and 
          BRAD LUFF.  Written by MATT JOHNSON.  MICHAEL RACHMIL, 
          GRAHAM BURKE and BRUCE BERMAN are the executive producers.

          Come prepared to witness heart-stopping stunts performed by 
          the motorcycle precision experts Ruff Ryder Soldiers.  
          Wheelies and speed have nothing on the stuntmen who will 
          tear up Hollywood Blvd. with their amazing skills.  This 
          will be a display that's not to be missed.

WHO:      From the film: ICE CUBE, MARTIN HENDERSON, MONET MAZUR, 
          JAIME PRESSLY, JAY HERNANDEZ, WILL YUN LEE, MATT SCHULZE, 
          ADAM SCOTT, director JOSEPH KAHN and recording artists 
          YOUNGBLOODZ will be joined by celebrity guests to be 
          announced shortly.

          In Torque, biker Cary Ford (MARTIN HENDERSON) returns to his
          hometown to reunite with his girlfriend (MONET MAZUR).  Once
          home, Ford is framed for a murder he didn't commit, targeted
          for revenge by the victim's brother (ICE CUBE) and pursued 
          by the FBI as he tries to clear his name and outrace his 
          enemies.

WHEN:     Wednesday, January 14
          Crew Arrivals:  5:30 PM
          Motorcycle Stunt:  6:00 PM
          Celebrity Arrivals:  6:30 PM
          Screening:  7:30 PM


WHERE:    Grauman's Chinese
          6925 Hollywood Blvd.
          Hollywood, CA 90028

12/17/03
Click here to play the Torque computer game. Be sure to read the system requirements!!

12/14/03
The flash portion of the official site has been launched! Here, you can find the Torque game, ecards, wallpapers, a screen saver and AIM icons.

11/23/03
A little blurb at JoBlo.com:

Can a movie look like it's gonna suck rock and be a load of fun at the same time? Sure. There are certain films that just automatically fall into the "so bad, it's good" category while others accidentally land in that group, but with TORQUE, it actually looks like they were making a film that would be a shit of fun, while not necessarily vying to get anyone nominated for "Best" in anything. Granted, you have to like hot chicks, leather, speed and gnarly bikes, but if you do, I can't imagine watching this trailer and not being intrigued by the spectacle that might just be this movie, come January 16, 2004. They've sold me, that's fer sure. Check out some of the neat screenshots from the trailer below. What's it all about? (as if it really matters)

Biker Cary Ford (Martin Henderson) returns to his hometown to reunite with his girlfriend (Monet Mazur). Once home, Ford is framed for a murder he didn't commit, targeted for revenge by the victim's brother (Ice Cube) and pursued by the FBI as he tries to clear his name and outrace his enemies.

10/25/03
Click here for the trailer for Torque. You'll need Quicktime to view the file.

10/16/03
Thanks to GI Jules, we now know that if you buy a DVD at Best Buy, you can also get this neat little FREE preview DVD (of upcoming movies, music, video games). On this DVD is a 2 and a half minute trailer for Torque. May I just say, the effects are awesome and the stunts terrific! Its only available as supplies last, but my Best Buy had many copies in. Be sure to get Volume 1!!

10/06/03
We now have an MPAA rating!! According to Comingsoon.net, the rating is PG-13 (for violence, sexuality, language and drug references).

10/3/03
From JoBlo.com . . .

The fine folks at Warner Bros. were kind enough to send us this exclusive look at the new one-sheet for their upcoming bikes and babes flick, TORQUE, that looks to succeed where BIKER BOYZ didn't. The film is set to ride into theatres on January 16th and stars Martin Henderson, Ice Cube, Monet Mazur, Matt Schulze, Jay Hernandez, Will Yun Lee, Adam Scott and the stupid-hot Jamie Pressly (that's her in the background all gothed-out!). The story follows biker Cary Ford (Henderson) as he returns to his hometown to reunite with his girlfriend (Mazur). Once home, Ford is framed for a murder he didn't commit, targeted for revenge by the victim's brother (Cube) and pursued by the FBI as he tries to clear his name and outrace his enemies. Vroom Vroom.

8/30/03
At the official page, we finally have a superb summary of the movie:

Biker Cary Ford (MARTIN HENDERSON) has returned to his hometown to reunite with his girlfriend Shane (MONET MAZUR) and take care of a little unfinished business.

When he skipped town months ago, Ford was in possession of several motorcycles belonging to Henry (MATT SCHULZE), a ruthless drug dealer and leader of the Hellions biker gang. Now Henry's putting the squeeze on Ford in an attempt to retrieve the bikes, which have something a little more valuable than gas in their tanks. When Ford is less than willing to cooperate, Henry frames him for the murder of Junior, younger brother of Trey (ICE CUBE), the fearsome leader of the Reapers motorcycle gang.

With the help of his loyal buddies Dalton (JAY HERNANDEZ) and Val (WILL YUN LEE), Ford must outrun an FBI agent (ADAM SCOTT) who's hot on his trail while eluding both the misinformed Trey, hell-bent on revenge, and the callous Henry, who's dead-set on getting back what is rightfully his.

Racing across the desert in a perilous attempt to prove his innocence and convince Shane that he's worth a second chance, Ford must outrace his enemies if he wants to clear his name and live to ride another day.

7/30/03
From CHUD.com, an article about the "Chicks" in Torque. Just a small mention of Matt....

Here’s what I know about Torque: It has lots of motorcycles, Kiwi actor Martin Henderson from The Ring remake, raptor Ice Cube, new recurring bad guy Matt Schulze, and a whole mess of extraordinarily hot girls.

I also know its release date has been bounced around several times (now planned for a January 2004 premiere), which is usually not a good sign. I’m sure music video director Joseph Kahn is a hell of a shooter, but I don’t know whether Warner Bros. is simply trying to put as much distance as possible from the unspeakably atrocious Biker Boyz, or if they just want to bury the film in the typical dead-zone of year’s start.

At any rate, the studio was pimping the flick at the recent San Diego Comic Con (starting to test the limits of what kind of movie can be promoted at a comic convention) by dispatching a trio of lovely lasses from the movie: glamazon Monet Mazur, eyeball-melting Christina Milian, and the thermonuclear Jaime Pressly (who really should’ve been the new Catwoman -- someone cast this gal in a superhero movie already).

Jaime: I had worked with the producers prior to it, and read the script, and called [producer] Neal Moritz and said “When are we starting?” And they called me back and said I could do it. Right after I’d gotten in a motorcycle accident, two days later they said “Jaime, you got the part!”

Monet: I read it and thought “I’m not really right for that part at all.” No one would ever cast me at the ‘biker chick’ in a movie. And they were really adamant and I was pushed to go in on it, and I met the director [Joseph Kahn] and he’s a very hip guy. And he described how he wanted to make it, and I said “Yeah, let’s do it!”. And he handed me a gun to use in this scene, and I was like “Whoa.” But the minute I had my boots and my leather and my guns on, I definitely jumped right in to it.

Christina: Mine was kind of by accident. I hadn’t been acting for a while, I was involved in my music career, and was hosting a show on MTV, and Joseph Kahn was a guest on the show. And after the show he said “I’ve been watching you this whole time, and I think you would be so great for this movie.” And I was like, “Yeah, I’ve heard that line before.” [laughs] Next thing I know I’m getting calls from Warner Bros., and I hear that Neal Moritz is producing it, and I thought maybe I should take it serious. So I read the script and they had me come in and meet with everybody, and we took it from there. It was a great opportunity, especially coming back into acting, with all the action and the motorcycles…

Question: Do all your characters ride, and what sort of training did you go through for that?

Jaime: Four hours a day for a month. And then training in the gym one or two hours a day, and then fight training. It was a big training thing. Lots of training.

Christina: I had to do a quick course, I had one whole 16 hour training day because I was actually on tour and working with MTV, so being that it was such a last minute thing, they said “You’ve gotta hurry up and do this.” So I came in one whole day and worked it out with the teacher, and I had a lot of fun, I enjoyed it.

Christina: Even [co-star] Jay Hernandez, actually. Jay got hurt and Martin got hurt.

Jaime: And the explosion was bigger than they thought it was going to be, and it blew out all the windows in the area.

Question: Sure, the whole adrenaline rush type thing. What new are you bringing to the table?

Jaime: I think what’s really being brought to the table is Joseph Kahn. It’s his directorial debut in film, and being that he’s a music video director who’s won so many awards, he has a really really great vision and style. And I think his style is what’s going to be so great about the film, because it’s visually gorgeous.

Monet: It doesn’t give you a second to sit back, it’s a rollercoaster from the minute it starts to the finish.

Jaime: In action you don’t really get to ad-lib a whole lot because there are so many marks to hit and things to do.

Monet: It’s all about hitting the action mark, and then there’s usually a beat where there’s the line, or sometimes if you’ll come up with a great one-liner like Terminator…

Jaime: And one-liner is about what you get, one line. There’s no monologues in there. I mean, there’s very few because it’s action. It’s not necessarily about the acting, and we’re being honest, it’s more about the action. And the way that he did it and the cast that he had, it was a given that it'd be a good film.

Jaime: It was great, because I got to change up the look for once. You know, everyone wants to keep the blonde hair and make me up like the Barbie doll, and I can’t stand that. I’d rather be in flip-flops and a wife-beater with my hair pulled back in a hat. But it was great, I got to do the black hair, pierced nose, pierced lip, sleeve tatts on both arms, my whole back was done. It was nothing like what I’ve ever done before as far as my look was concerned, I was excited for it.

Jaime: It’s easy to get into character when you don’t look like America apple pie, when they completely trash you up. And not trashy in the slutty sense, trashy in the dirty sense. I was… it was very sweaty for everybody. [laughs]

Monet: Trying to get touched up between takes, and we all just said “Screw it”. My suits were one piece that zipped up to the neck with long sleeves. And I had about five, because they’d take two days to dry after a day of work.

Jaime: How about… this was really great. Because I have peach fuzz everywhere, I had to go get my arms waxed, that was fun, so they could put the tattoos on every day. And my hair wasn’t dyed, it was airbrushed every day. So I had to go in for the three or four hours before you work. It was really time-consuming, but so worth it once you got all that on because you just felt like your character.

Jaime: Cube was great. He rode around on the scooter all day, played Gameboy… [laughs] Cube’s great. Everybody was great. You know, it was pretty much all guys and just us girls.

Jaime: Well, we were on set so much, we didn’t really get to do much off set. We had as much fun as we could, but it’s really hard when you put any actor in a trailer and say sit for 13 hours and then you’re going to come work for 10 minutes…

Jaime: But you couldn’t take off your leathers. My leathers laced all the way up the front and the side. So once they were on, you had to leave them on. 110 degrees and I’m just sitting there gasping.

Jaime: I was turned off two days before I found out I was in it. [laughs] No, it was really fun. We had to start off on dirt bikes and work our way up to the Jesse James bikes he made for us. But I’ve gotta say, I would go back and get on one of those dirt bikes.

Monet: When I got on my bike, I had a Triumph 660, which was like three times the size of me, I almost threw myself off the back a couple times.

Monet: A lot [is in there] of the old school 80s, Romancing the Stone, that sort of action-comedy. Everything from Tomb Raider to Catwoman, to Gwen Stefani and Evel Knievel, and a lot of Star Wars references with Martin Henderson’s character.

Jaime: If Joseph could’ve been here, he would’ve been the first one in line for Comic Con.

And then they left, and I was sad at the absence of beauty.

6/5/03
This from Wildoutgear.com:
Torque draws frequent comparisons to The Fast and the Furious, and probably for good reason. It's an action movie that involves a lot of racing - only this time it's motorcycles instead of tricked-out cars. The plot revolves around Cary Ford (The Ring's Martin Henderson), a lifelong biker who is framed for murder by a rival named Henry (Matt Schulze, fresh off the bad guy role in The Transporter). Henry is in charge of a biker gang called the Hellions, and the murder victim in question happens to be Sleepy D, the brother of Trey Wallace (Ice Cube). Wallace fronts a motorcycle gang known as The Machine, an infamous group that is feared across the country. Caught up in the circumstances, Cary and his friends are forced to go on the run as they have both Trey's gang and the FBI hot on their trail. Jaime Pressly plays Henry's girlfriend.

The film marks the feature film debut of prolific music video director Joseph Kahn, who is well-respected for his fine work on videos such as Eminem's Without Me and Moby's We Are All Made of Stars (attention, irony police!). With his involvement, Torque should be a stylish affair with plenty of action.

With a target audience solidly falling in the all-important young male demographic, Torque has all the marks of a sleeper waiting to happen. The danger is that the concept may feel stale and copied, and the audience is certainly a fickle crowd. What was cool in 2000 is likely to be dull and uninteresting in 2003. If it's sold as a high-flying actioner with tons of stunts and thrills, it still has a great shot at striking that chord. (Kim Hollis/BOP)

4/13/03
Torque, which sounds a lot like Biker Boyz, which, in turn, sounds a lot like The Fast and the Furious, which--oh, never mind. The Ice Cube-starrer pits two biker gangs against one another. Anyhow, my buddy Matt Schulze (The Transporter) tells me it blows F&F off the screen. I guess we'll see. Torque moves from March to the fall.

3/17/03
Spoke with a reliable source earlier today. Torque will NOT be released in April as previously reported. (hurray!) As of right now, WB does not even have promo plans for this, but I can tell you it will get publicity and it will be released later this summer, just not sure when. :)

3/14/03
From *2* sources, I have been able to confirm that the release date for Torque is suddenly moved up to April 4. This makes no sense to me. As a new fan of Martin and a HUGE fan of Matt's (duh?), I am thrilled we are suddenly getting to see it much earlier than originally planned, but where's the promotion for this?? Has anyone seen ANYTHING about it yet? MTV? Anything? I can't even find a POSTER about it... If you HAVE, please, let us know!

"Torque": After being jettisoned to the fall, the motorcycle-racing picture has been moved up to April 4, three weeks away. The second to feature the sport this year-- the first was "Biker Boyz," which had a lukewarm reception at the box office-- this focuses on a long-time biker (played by Martin Henderson) who is framed by a long-time rival. With rival bikers (including Ice Cube) and the FBI after him, he must make a run for it.

Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
Remember... this is not BIKER BOYZ. And it is not 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS. It is Joseph Kahn’s debut as a feature director, and it is TORQUE. And our spy has seen it...
So, Dignan here, just got back from the first ever screening of Torque at the Warner Brothers Lot. 2ND BEST FILM OF THE 2003!!!! Of course I've only seen City of God, Kangaroo Jack, and The Guru, so the competition isn't very stiff. An insanely stupid, loud, destructive, idiotic film...and I enjoyed the hell out of it. This film IS a Roger Corman film...there is no better way to describe it. That is, in my opinion, why I liked this film better than XXX and Fast and the Furious on all levels. It accepts the fact that it is a stupid film, and it embraces it joyfully. Don't get me wrong...it is an absurd film. I haven't laughed this much at a film in a long, long, long time...but it was addictably watchable. The story: There really isn't one. All you have to know is that it involves rival bike gangs, kilos of stolen meth, one insanely hot chick and Ice Cube snarling in every frame. (At one time he actually mutters..."Fuck the Police") On a technical level, it's sure is pretty. I have to give props to Joseph Kahn for making beautiful eye candy. There are a lot of inventive camera work, often aided by way too much C.G., but hey I liked it...most of the time. And just wait til you see the end...it's the 2nd most absurd Good Guy vs. Bad Guy scene that I have ever seen. It's second only to Takeshi Miike's "Dead Or Alive", and it actually feels a LOT like it, so I wonder if it was kind of a tongue-in-cheek homage. Anyway, that's the scoop. Much more energetic and frenzied than I thought it would be, and I actually enjoyed it. I can't imagine Biker Boyz being as fun as this film. I do feel they need to tighten many scenes including the final battle scene in the warehouse...it is way too choppy and you can't tell what the hell is going on. But this is a rough cut (it was actually video projected) so we'll see if they tighten it.

01/01/03
Our first update of the new year. Unfortunately, the news isn't good. According to variety.com, we have a change in release date AGAIN. This time, however, it has been pushed BACK. All we have right now is 4th Quarter 2003. Believe me, we are doing everything we can to find out more about this.

12/22/02
New release date! According to Variety.com, it has been moved UP to March 14, 2003!!

12/11/02
WorldWide Torque Release Dates
USA 21 March 2003
Germany 22 May 2003
Austria 23 May 2003
UK 6 June 2003
Netherlands 3 July 2003

11/24/02
According to IMDB.com, this is what we have for release dates so far:
USA 21 March 2003
Germany 22 May 2003

Filming locations:
Interstate 210, La Verne, California, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Palm Springs, California, USA

Ever wonder what rapper-actor-producer-writer-director Ice Cube would look like... on a motorcycle??

Wonder no more, cupcake! As they have a penchant for doing, the gang at Latino Review are the first kids on the block with pics from the Warner Bros. bike racing flick Torque.

The aforementioned six-sided polygon of frozen water (born O'Shea Jackson) stars in the flick, described by me as "The Fast and the Furious on two wheels". Mr. Cube will play the main man in a fearsome biker gang. The movie also stars The Ring's Kiwi hunk Martin Henderson, crazy/beautiful Dunst-sexer Jay Hernandez, and bad guy du jour Matt Schulze, known as The Transporter's antagonist, a member of the Bloodpack in Blade II and one of Vin Diesel's thieving goons in The Fast and the Furious. Some babes who enjoy vibrating machines between their legs are also present.

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.

11/13/02
A much better (more detailed!) movie summary from Latino Review.
Our first glimpse of the movie can be found here.

Release Date: March 21, 2003
Director: Joseph Kahn
Starring: Martin Henderson, Jaime Pressly, Ice Cube, Jay Hernandez, Matt Schulze, Adam Scott, Will Yun Lee, Faizon Love, Christina Milian, Fredro Starr

Synopsis
Biker Cary Ford (MARTIN HENDERSON) has returned to his hometown to reunite with his girlfriend Shane (MONET MAZUR) and take care of a little unfinished business. When he skipped town months ago, Ford was in possession of several motorcycles belonging to Henry (MATT SCHULZE), a ruthless drug dealer and leader of the Hellions biker gang. Now Henry's putting the squeeze on Ford in an attempt to retrieve the bikes, which have something a little more valuable than gas in their tanks. When Ford is less than willing to cooperate, Henry frames him for the murder of Junior, younger brother of Trey (ICE CUBE), the fearsome leader of the Reapers motorcycle gang. With the help of his loyal buddies Dalton (JAY HERNANDEZ) and Val (WILL YUN LEE), Ford must outrun an FBI agent (ADAM SCOTT) who's hot on his trail while eluding both the misinformed Trey, hell-bent on revenge, and the callous Henry, who's dead-set on getting back what is rightfully his. Racing across the desert in a perilous attempt to prove his innocence and convince Shane that he's worth a second chance, Ford must outrace his enemies if he wants to clear his name and live to ride another day.

10/16/02
According to Filmjerk.com:
Torque (Warners)
Opening Week Release Pattern: 2000 plus locations release on March 21
Moved from January 17, 2003

Here is what we have so far for information on Torque. Thank you to yahoomovies.

Release Date: March 21st, 2003; (pushed back two months from January 17th, 2003)
Production Company: Village Roadshow Pictures, Original Films (XXX, The Fast and the Furious 2, The Skulls)
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Cast: Ice Cube (Trey Wallace), Martin Henderson (Cary Ford), Monet Mazur (Shane), Will Yun Lee (Val), Jay Hernandez, Faizon Love, Justina Machado, Christina Milian, Jaime Pressly (China), Nichole Robinson, Matt Schulze (Henry), Adam Scott, Fredro Starr
Director: Joseph Kahn (feature film debut of the prolific music video director; he was long expected to make his debut with Lazarus, the project that was formerly known as "Crow 4")
Screenwriter: Matt Johnson (first draft); rewrites by J.P. Donahue and Kevin Polay (feature debuts)
Premise: Set in the fast-paced world of motorcycle racing, this action movie shows what happens to long-time biker (and non-gang member) Cary Ford (Henderson) when he is framed by a long-time rival, Henry (Schulze), the leader of a biker gang called the Hellions for the murder of Sleepy D, the brother of Trey Wallace (Cube), the leader of the Machine, the most notorious and feared biker gang in the country. Cary and his friends must make a run for it as they have both Trey and his Machine bikers and the FBI on their tails... (Pressly plays Henry's girlfriend, who helps him frame Henry for the murder that he himself committed with the help of one of his gang members).
Filming: Production started on July 8th, 2002 in Los Angeles.
Genre: Action, Sports

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Will Yun Lee (Danny, "Witchblade") and Justina Machado ("Six Feet Under") have been added to the cast of Warner Bros.' bike actioner "Torque." Pic, lensing in Los Angeles, is being helmed by musicvid director Joseph Kahn. Martin Henderson, Monet Mazur, Adam Scott and Jay Hernandez co-star. Matt Schulze, Jamie Pressly, Fredro Starr, Max Beesley and Nichole Robinson also have been added to the roster. Lee will next be seen in Bond pic "Die Another Day." Next up for Machado is a gig in "Fighting Temptations" for Paramount.

7/14/02
A Torque Review from Greg @ Yahoomovies.com

Release Date: January 17, 2003
Studio: Warner Bros.
Director: Joseph Kahn
Screenwriter: J.P. Donahue, Kevin Polay, Matt Johnson
Starring: Martin Henderson, Jaime Pressly, Ice Cube, Jay Hernandez, Matt Schulze, Adam Scott
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: Not available
Official Website: Not available
Review: Not available
DVD/VHS: Not available
Movie Poster: Not available
Plot Summary: A fast-paced adventure set in the world of motorcycle racing. Cube will star as Trey Wallace, the leader of the Machine, one of the most powerful and feared biker gangs in the country. Hernandez will star as one of the lead bikers, the best friend to the group's leader, Cary Ford, who has yet to be cast. Schulze will star as Henry, Ford's nemesis, a vicious rider who heads a rival biker gang, the Hellions.

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New Zealand's Martin Henderson has nabbed the male lead in Warner Bros.' Torque for director Joseph Kahn, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Additionally, Jaime Pressly (Not Another Teen Movie) has been added to the cast of the film, which begins shooting next month in Los Angeles.

The film is described as a fast-paced adventure set in the world of motorcycle racing. Henderson plays Cary Ford, a lifelong biker who finds himself framed for the murder of Sleepy D., who happens to be the brother of Trey Wallace (Ice Cube), the leader of one of the most powerful and feared biker gangs in the country.

Pressly will star as China, who is forced to lie about seeing Cary committ the murder. Jay Hernandez, Matt Schulze and Adam Scott also star.

source: comingsoon.net

5/23/02
Hernandez & Schulze Up for Torque
Thursday, May 23, 2002 7:15 CDT

Jay Hernandez is set and Matt Schulze is in final negotiations to star in Warner Bros.' Torque for director Joseph Kahn, says The Hollywood Reporter. The project begins shooting in July in Los Angeles.

Torque is described as a fast-paced adventure set in the world of motorcycle racing. Hernandez will star as one of the lead bikers, the best friend to the group's leader, Cary Ford, who has yet to be cast. Schulze will star as Henry, Ford's nemesis, a vicious rider who heads a rival biker gang, the Hellions.

The Transporter:
Premise: This is the story of a professional courier (Statham) whose job it is to not ask questions about what he's delivering, who gets in trouble when he breaks that rule. Not much else is known about the story, except that it involves the smuggling of illegal immigrants.

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Dangerous complications ensue when a former U.S. Special Forces soldier-turned expatriate mercenary is hired to kidnap the feisty daughter of a lethal Chinese cook who's smuggling his fellow countrymen into France.

Filming: Production started in October, 2001 in France (Paris, Nice, Marseilles, and elsewhere) on a budget of $20 million and wrapped in December.