Synopsis Released for Joseph Gordon-Levitt's PREMIUM RUSH

Set for release early next year, Premium Rush is an action thriller centering on a New York bike messenger tasked with trying to deliver a mysterious package. The film was shot on location in Manhattan last year.

A New York bike messenger is given an envelope by a young woman at an uptown Manhattan college and is told he has 90 minutes to deliver it to an address in Chinatown. Complications ensue when an undercover police office appears and demands the envelope on special grounds. The truth, hidden motivations, and the life-and-death stakes on all sides are revealed through a series of flashbacks as the cop and the messenger engage in a length-of-Manhattan chase, racing against time after the messenger discovers the precious nature of the envelope’s slender contents. This movie also stars Jamie Chung (Grown Ups, Hangover II), Dania Ramirez (Entourage, Heroes), Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire)

Premium Rush, directed by David Koepp (Ghost Town), stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception), Jamie Chung (Sorority Row) Dania Ramirez (Entourage) and Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire). It is set for release on January 13th, 2012. Photo courtesy of On Location Vacations.