Keanu Reeves' Racing Movie RALLY CAR Just Made a Terrible Mistake

The Keanu-ssance is in full swing, but here's some news which could cause that upward trajectory to come to a crashing halt.

Before we get to the bad news, let's all get on the same page. We've known for months that Keanu Reeves is set to star in a China-set film racing movie called Rally Car. Here's the synopsis:

Rally Car centers on a hot-shot former champion NASCAR driver (Reeves) who doesn’t want to believe his glory days are behind him. When his professional and personal life begin to spiral out of control, he’s forced to take part in a high-stakes international rally race across the face of China, with a young Chinese girl as his co-driver, in order to prove he’s still the badass racer he thinks he is.

That alone might not be so terrible...the bad news is who is going to direct it. While we initially heard a report that The Karate Kid remake director Harold Zwart was going to step behind the camera, now THR reports that it'll actually be French filmmaker Olivier Megaton at the helm. Megaton is the man responsible for heaping piles of steaming garbage like Transporter 3, Taken 2, and Taken 3. He's one of the worst action directors alive — maybe ever — and has absolutely no sense of how to convey necessary geographic information in his films.

Megaton is a shaky cam acolyte who is physically incapable of making a good movie. So it's extremely troubling that he'll be guiding Reeves through this movie during such an interesting period in the actor's career. I'm hoping that Reeves will somehow be able to pull this movie out of the dumpster with sheer force of will, but when you have a director as consistently godawful as Megaton running the show, that's a fight I don't even think Neo could win.