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Uma Thurman to Star in Second Pirelli Short Format Film âMission Zeroâ

Never realized that Pirelli was involved in the dark arts? No doubt, adherents to the brand’s sticky rubber compounds might think there’s magic in the mix, but the tire maker’s latest off-road

project has more to do with special effects than anything as dramatic as real life performance. Nevertheless, the artsy web film dubbed The Call, starring John Malkovich (Eragon, The Libertine) and Naomi Campbell (model), directed

John Malkovich kneels before a possessed TVR in the short format film The Call, produced by Pirelli. (Photo: PirelliFilm.com)

by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, King Arthur), is a 10-minute Euro art noir rendition of John Carpenter's movie rendition of Stephen King’s

Naomi Campbell is scintillating in Pirelli Film's The Call. (Photo: PirelliFilm.com)

classic novel Christine and William Friedkin's The Exorcist all wrapped up in one.

Playing on the popularity of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons series, Malkovich represents the dutiful and high ranking (noted by his use of a chauffeured Lancia Thesis

This yellow Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder stars alongside Uma Thurman in Pirelli's second film, Mission Zero. (Photo: PirelliFilm.com)

– the same car used as the basis of one of the Pope-mobiles – and therefore no, it’s not a Kia Amanti you're seeing driving down a dark alleyway) Catholic priest called in to subdue a Racing Green (albeit rather dusty) TVR Sagaris, possessed by an evil spirit in the form of a flaming winged Campbell. More campy than spooky, the film toys with the underworld

as it blatantly displays its tires as the saviours of mankind,

Press "VIEW THE FILM" and get ready for a wild ride with Uma Thurman and her Gallardo Spyder. (Photo: Pirelli)

or at least the man of the cloth at hand.

With the priest’s sizzling holy water having been merely whisked away via the car's wipers, and now lacking his cross which has been broken in two due to a quick dive to avoid impending doom, he resorts to a quad of Pirelli PZeros rolling along beside him as he approaches the beastly TVR for a final time. The laying on of hands, so to speak, removes the beast from the car and we all breathe a sigh of relief.

The Call isn’t the first short format film produced by an automotive related company, BMW having produced two season’s

As always, Thurman is breathtaking. (Photo: Pirelli)

worth of shorts dubbed The Hire, starring Clive Owen (Inside Man, Sin City, The Bourne Identity) and featuring a number of top rated celebrities including Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Batman Begins,

The Fifth Element) and Madonna, plus walk-ons by Marilyn Manson and Ray Liotta, and directed by the likes of Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain), Guy Ritchie (Revolver, Snatch), and John Frankenheimer (Reindeer Games, Ronin), among others, and one of the most brilliant moments in short format automotive film, Volvo’s faked documentary about the fictional Swedish village of Dalaro, where a large proportion of residents had supposedly bought the automaker’s S40 all on the same day.

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