I love the movie Cars with Lightning McQueen in it.  Have you ever seen it?
I actually watched it this morning!  It was awesome!  I originally thought the character was named after Steve McQueen, but it turns out it was named after Glenn McQueen!
Interesting I had no idea.  I knew the voice was done by Owen Wilson who's a great actor. His paint was supposed to look like a Corvette I think.
Glenn McQueen was a Pixar animator.  Sadly, he died in 2002.
He died very young McQueen from melanoma  at the age of 41.  I wonder what he would have thought of the other Cars Movies that Lighting McQueen starred in?
I hope he would have loved them! In one scene, the car was painted like a Corvette C1 from the 1950s - it looked amazing!
McQueens number was originally set to be 57, Lasseter's birth year, but was changed to 95, the release year of Pixar's first film Toy Story.  I wonder how many other references there are in the movie?
GT40." During the scene where he helps restore Radiator Springs to its 1950s heyday, he is painted much like a 1950s Chevrolet Corvette C1, once again hinting at his Corvette lineage. His number was originally set to be 57, Lasseter's birth year, but was changed to 95, the release year of Pixar's first film "Toy Story".
Characterization.
During the initial research for the first film, John Lasseter met with General Motors designers to discuss the new Corvette design but subsequent changes to the
, Steve McQueen and all those guys, the guys who were kind of bad and you still rooted for them. And when I read this, I thought, 'This guy is robbing a bank but you really want him to get away with it.'"
Soderbergh cites Nicolas Roeg's 1973 film "Don't Look Now" as the primary influence on how he approached the love scene between Foley and Sisco: "What I wanted to create in our movie was the intimacy of that, the juxtaposition of these