Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer capture 1960s rebel cool in ‘The Bikeriders’
Jeff Nichols had dreamt of making a film about a 1960s motorcycle clubs for over 20 years.
The obsession started when he first cracked open Danny Lyon’s book “The Bikeriders,” a New Journalism-style account of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club in the mid-1960s. He saw it as a story about rebels, romantics, frauds and the end of an era.
But he didn’t quite realize just how terrifying it would be to film the motorcycles in motion.
The bikes were vintage. The actors, including and , would be riding at high speeds. And there would be no helmets.
