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Fred Durst to Direct 'Pawn Shop Chronicles' Starring Paul Walker

by Ethan Anderton
February 14, 2011
Source: THR

If you haven't seen The Longshots or The Education of Charlie Banks, then you may not be aware that Limp Bizkit lead singer Fred Durst became a film director. Now the rocker turned filmmaker has landed his next project as THR reports the European Film Market has seen the unveiling of Pawn Shop Chronicles, a thriller which Durst will direct. In addition Paul Walker (The Fast and the Furious, Running Scared) will star in the film which has multiple interconnected stories centered around a missing wedding ring which leads to a wild-goose chase involving meth addicts, skinheads and an Elvis impersonator. That sounds like a big bag of crazy to me.

Jordan Schur of Mimran Schur Pictures is producing and he calls the project, "a hillbilly Pulp Fiction." He also says the script is "fast-moving and action packed. It's also very funny. It's got all these elements to really pack a punch." Actor Adam Minarovich ("The Walking Dead") is behind the script, and the actor turned writer apparently spent some time working in a pawn shop in North Carolina at some point in his life. The project is on track to start production in Michigan this spring. If I didn't hate Paul Walker so much and see this as Fred Durst's retread of Snatch, then I might be slightly more interested. What do you think?

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