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Hell Ride (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Larry Bishop, a biker-movie veteran, and Michael Madsen met while working on Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) and decided to do this movie together.
  
  
• Larry Bishop's character Pistolero is named after the original title for Quentin Tarantino's friend, Robert Rodriguez's movie, Desperado (1995).
  
  
• Producer Quentin Tarantino was originally slated to play Comanche.
  
  
• David Carradine turned down his role at first. Larry Bishop rewrote his part and said he could shoot it in one day. Carradine agreed.
  
  
• Quentin Tarantino turned down the role of Comanche so that he could act as Ringo in Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django (2007).
  
  
• Josh Hartnett turned down the role of Comanche.
  
  
• Originally titled 'Pistolero'. Other titles considered were 'The Savage Riders Return', 'The Wild Riders', 'The Three Victors', and 'Route 666 to Hell'.
  
  
• Had a DVD release date before a theatrical release date.
  
  
• Bruce Willis was considered for the role of Pistolero.
  
  
• The idea for the film came from Quentin Tarantino after watching The Savage Seven (1968) with Larry Bishop. He told Bishop it was his destiny to make the best biker movie ever and that he (Tarantino) should produce it.
  
  
• 'Peter Fonda' was offered a role, but declined saying he was 'done with biker movies.'
  
  
• Dennis Hopper used his own bike in the movie.
  
  
• The opening credit scene being reminiscent of Easy Rider (1969) was Quentin Tarantino's idea.
  
  

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