Mad Max on Autoroute 20

Toronto – Director John Fawcett has wrapped the road-rage MOW Last Exit after a four-week shoot in Montreal – setting the stage for a 2005/06 airdate on CTV and, most likely, a good number of wisecracks about Quebec drivers. The two-hour project stars Kathleen Robertson (Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story) as a single mom who gets into a high-speed fracas with an overworked career woman, played by Andrea Roth (Rescue Me). Ben Bass and Linden Ashby also star.

Fawcett (Ginger Snaps) directs for producers Richard Lalonde (Elles étaient cinq) of Montreal’s Forum Films and Daniel Iron (Northern Town, Slings and Arrows) of Toronto’s Foundry Films, working from the script by Russell Cochrane (Radio Free Roscoe).

The project moved forward after drawing $1.7 million, roughly half its budget, from CTF in May.

The stunt driving is being handled by co-ordinator Jean Frenette and by drivers Stephane Lefebvre, Dave McKeown, Mike Chute and Alexandre Cadieux.