Watch Euro Gap 1 - Full Movie
Over the course of the next 5 days we’ll also be showing Euro Gap 2 in its entirety, plus we’ve got interviews with young gun Niki Korpela, Euro Gap bozzbozz Joni Malmi and director of this third installment, Jaakko Itäaho.
The first couple of Euro Gaps were low-budget, handicam buddie movies produced by Malmi and Paavo Tikkanen. But when you’re in the pack of big guns and your buddies are some of the best riders of the time, the result was a duology that had some solid riding topped up with the kind of dicking around you’d expect from a crew of lads touring the globe. Think the Whiskey or Wildcats movies but with more vodka and paddling pool parties.
That was that, until a little over a year ago when Jaakko Itäaho (of Elekrep and MDP fame), burned out with his experience on the Burton movie, was talking with Malmi about ways to get the love back and produce a film with no pressures, no outside involvement, just fun-plus-bangers. Before they knew it, Eero Ettala was onboard, filming solely for the project, and a murder of other Scandis were quick to follow suit. Euro Gap 3 was born…
Though the final installment of the trilogy promises to have the kind of high-grade filming and editing that Jaakko has made his name with, by the look of the Euro Gap 3 teaser, they ain’t ditched the fuckwittery either. And with a roster that reads like a who’s who of Scandinavian badasses – Eero Ettala, Heikki Sorsa, Hampus Mosesson, Joni Malmi, Niki Korpela, Fredu Sirviö and Markku Koski – you can be sure you’re gonna want to be by a computer come November 7.
In the meantime enjoy Euro Gap 1, and tune in tomorrow for more…
