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TV listings SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2014

10:45 Jack Reacher-PG15 13:00 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted-PG 15:00 Like Crazy-PG15 17:00 Hotel Transylvania-PG 03:00 Aaron Paul goes 19:00 Beautiful Creatures-PG15 0:30 ICC Cricket 360 03:30 Shipping Wars 21:00 Django Unchained-18 01:00 Pakistan v Sri Lanka ODI 04:00 American Pickers 23:45 Resident Evil: Retribution-18 Highlights 05:00 02:00 Pakistan v Sri Lanka ODI 05:30 Duck Dynasty for fun after Highlights 06:00 03:00 Pakistan v Sri Lanka ODI 06:30 Pawn Stars Highlights 07:00 04:00 The Odd Life Of Timothy Green- 04:00 Champions League T20 07:30 Storage Wars ‘Breaking Bad’ role PG Highlights 08:00 Duck Dynasty 06:00 Three Investigators And The 04:30 ICC Cricket 360 08:30 Duck Dynasty Secret Of Terror...-PG 05:00 v ODI Highlights 09:00 Pawn Stars 08:00 The Cold Light Of Day-PG15 06:00 v West Indies ODI 09:30 Pawn Stars hen Aaron Paul received the Steve McQueen style of filmmaking 10:00 Pawn Stars 10:00 The Legend Of Sarila-PG Highlights script for “Need for Speed,” he Paul did many of his own stunts, but 11:45 Oz The Great And Powerful-PG 07:00 Australia v England T20I 10:30 Pawn Stars 14:00 Interview With A Hitman-PG15 08:00 Big Bash League Highlights 11:00 Storage Wars had very little interest in even said professionals were brought in for 11:30 Storage Wars W 16:00 The Cold Light Of Day-PG15 09:00 Big Bash League Highlights reading the story, let alone taking a star- “the real heavy lifting” and Paul was 18:00 You Will Meet A Tall Dark 10:00 Big Bash League Highlights 12:00 Storage Wars Stranger-PG15 11:00 ICC Cricket 360 12:30 Storage Wars ring a role in the movie. He saw the title only in scenes where the driving didn’t 20:00 Small Apartments-18 11:30 Australia v England ODI 13:00 Pawn Stars and immediately envisioned another exceed 130 mph. Scott Waugh, the for- 22:00 The Sweeney-18 Highlights 13:30 Pawn Stars 12:30 Australia v England ODI 14:00 Pawn Stars poorly done video game adaptation. Or mer stunt man-turned-director, insisted Highlights 14:30 Pawn Stars worse, a car film desperately trying to that all the action sequences and wrecks 15:00 Shipping Wars 13:30 Australia v England ODI become a franchise. “When I saw ‘Need be done live and did not rely on the use Highlights 15:30 Shipping Wars 14:30 Australia v England ODI 16:00 Storage Wars Texas for Speed,’ I just instantly thought this is of CGI or a green screen. Both Paul and 02:00 Total Rugby 16:30 Storage Wars Texas 02:30 Super Rugby Highlights a ‘Fast & Furious’ rip-off. This is going to Waugh bill “Need for Speed” as an hom- 15:30 Australia v England ODI 17:00 Storage Wars Texas 04:30 Super Rugby Highlights 17:30 Storage Wars Texas be God awful,” Paul said in an interview age to classic car flicks. They cite “Bullitt” 06:30 Live Super Rugby 16:30 ICC Cricket 360 18:00 Counting Cars with The Associated Press. “Let’s be hon- and “Vanishing Point” and even 08:30 Total Rugby 17:00 Australia v England T20I 18:30 Counting Cars 09:00 Futbol Mundial 18:00 ICC Under 19 World Cup 2014 19:00 The Legend Of Shelby The est - everyone going into this movie is “Smokey & The Bandit” as inspirations. 09:35 Live Super Rugby Highlights Swamp Man going to expect to see something similar So Waugh went into the film trying to 19:30 The Legend Of Shelby The 11:40 Live Super Rugby 19:00 ICC Under 19 World Cup 2014 to ‘Fast & Furious.’ That’s fine, the ‘Fast & give it a “Steve McQueen style of film- 13:30 Total Rugby Highlights Swamp Man 20:00 Shipping Wars 14:00 Super Rugby 20:00 ICC Under 19 World Cup 2014 Furious’ movies, they’ve made six of making,” as in when a camera would 20:30 Shipping Wars 16:00 Live Super Rugby Highlights 21:00 Duck Dynasty them, they are on the seventh, they are pull up right next to a car in a McQueen 21:00 ICC Cricket 360 18:05 Live Super Rugby 21:30 Duck Dynasty 21:30 Australia v England T20I fun to watch, they are popcorn movies film so the audience could see the actor 20:00 Total Rugby 22:00 Storage Wars Texas 20:30 Inside The PGA Tour 22:30 Australia v England T20I 22:30 Storage Wars Texas and I have nothing against them. “But I in the driver’s seat. That was in his mind 21:00 Live PGA Tour 23:30 Australia v England T20I 23:00 The Men Who Built America didn’t want to jump into something like during casting when he first heard that.” Paul ultimately decided to read Paul’s name. the script, which is based on the popular Waugh had never seen “Breaking EA Entertainment racing game, and Bad” and was unfamiliar with Paul, a found himself surprisingly intrigued by two-time Emmy winner for his role as the story of a street racer framed for a Pinkman. But Paul was suggested to crime he didn’t commit. He seeks his Waugh to play the villain, so he took a revenge while taking a cross-country trip look. “I didn’t even know who Aaron in a custom-built Ford Mustang, which Paul was and everyone thought I was an he hopes to enter in underground and alien on earth,” Waugh said. “Then I saw illegal street race called the De Leon. the tape of him and was so blown away, Paul was hooked and signed on for he was the obvious choice for the bad the project in 2012, as he was preparing guy. But the more interesting choice for his final season as Jesse Pinkman in and the one that would define the “Breaking Bad.” “I just had such a fun movie was the lead, and having him as time reading this film, just flipping the the lead was the edgier choice. He’s not pages,” he said. “It was just a fun ride just a beautiful person, he’s so much and after doing a show for so long that I more of an actor than that.” was so proud to be a part of, but it was So much so that Waugh sees Paul as also emotionally exhausting, just so a present-day McQueen. “Aaron has this heavy every single day. I wanted to do uncanny ability of portraying edge, something that was a little bit lighter mixed with charisma, mixed with hum- and this was that.” ble and likability and Steve really had Paul got his wish in a campy film with that,” Waugh said. “Steve was such a cliche-filled dialogue and a predictable man’s man and he was also a ladies’ plot. But the movie also features several man. I remember seeing Steve at European super cars - a Swedish motocross, his hair would be Koenigsegg Agera R, Lamborghini, GTA disheveled, mud all over him, and he Spano, Bugatti and McLaren P1, all of didn’t care who was looking at him. It’s which are featured in the video game, as that ego-less attitude that Steve had well as a Saleen S7 - and Paul got to do that Aaron really has in his natural life.” most of his own driving. He trained at Paul, who has several other projects due Willow Springs International Raceway, out this year and said he would consider driving from before dawn a spot in the Bad-prequel “Better Call for lessons that lasted up to 10 hours a Saul,” isn’t sold on the McQueen com- day. “From the moment the sun starts parisons. peeking up, I am there all day long, “I don’t know how that makes me learning how to maneuver these cars,” feel,” he laughed. “I love Steve Paul said. “It started out learning how to McQueen and that’s very nice of get out of problematic situations, and (Waugh) to say, but I grew up loving then I got to learn how to do all the fun and watching “Bullitt” and I remember stuff: driving the car backward at really my dad showing me “Bullitt” when I high speeds, flipping the car around in a was a kid and Steve McQueen was just reverse 180 and going through stunt a bad-a**. If our director thinks that, I courses. It was so much fun, I loved every thank him. But I am definitely not claim- minute of it, it never felt dangerous.” ing to be that.” — AP AMERICAN REUNION ON OSN MOVIES COMEDY