Drive has also landed a full-page preview article in the latest Entertainment Weekly, in their Winter TV Preview section. In the article, Minear states that Drive is "two parts Cannonball Run and one part The Game. And four parts Magnolia, too." That's a lot of parts, Tim...
The original opening of the show, which I saw this fall at the Creative Screenwriting Expo in LA, is also mentioned. "[The pilot] began with a continuous, four-minute shot--utilizing cutting-edge F/X seen in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds--that introduced the 12 main characters by zooming in and out of their vehicles." But in the final version: "That epic opening sequence? Now just a minute." That's too bad, because it was a great piece of TV.