The Wrong Way Down 2009
No bike sponsorship? No film crew? No trophy wives? No idea?
THE STUDIO
From the production team that brought you the truly forgettable "The Short Way Round 2007" (SWR) comes this big budget, S-bend busting sequel.
But this time the adventure is different. SWR, an emotionally challenging and deeply personal journey in its own right, was based around the familiar turf of Europe and North Africa. "Close to home yet far from good" is how many critics received it, so this time the producers have been forced to up the ante, lift their game, pull out all stops and throw vast sums of money at a totally unproven concept.
The 3G Mobile Phone Network... New Labor... Sarah Palin! They all sounded like a good idea to someone at their conception. Will "The Wrong Way Down" (WWD) become yet another hugely over funded cultural irrelevance? Or will it cement its all star cast as true bastions of the Adventure Motorcycling movement? Only time will tell.
THE LOCATIONS
South America here we come - lock up your llamas, you have been warned!
Starting in Buenos Aires, the production team will counter intuitively travel down for the first scenes, taking them through Patagonia, all the way to the ends of the earth. From Tierra Del Fuego, it's then a relentless mission traveling the wrong way down through Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador before applying the brakes in Cartagena, Columbia to prevent us from falling into the Caribbean Sea.
After over 3 months on the road in sweaty motorcycle clobber, an impromptu swim may not actually be such a bad idea.
Forays to Rio Carnivale and Venezuela are not out of contention, and could make it into the Directors Cut - essentially the same thing but repackaged 20 years later with 17 minutes of extra footage that really should have been left on the cutting room floor.