#The fate of the furious movie
#The fate of the furious series

Cast and crew jumped when Diesel guttural yelled his “I’m alone!” line.ġ5. He believes the onscreen chemistry between Theron and Diesel is “massive.” I laughed out loud.ġ4. It was important to keep the comedy coming to counter this film’s heavy “drama” that franchise fans might not be expecting.ġ3. “I think something’s gonna come out of it,” he says, “we’ll see, but I definitely wouldn’t mind seeing a two-hander between Shaw and Hobbs.” A Fast & Furious spin-off focused strictly on this pair? Okay.ġ2. He has tons of footage that didn’t make the film simply of Johnson and Statham trying to one-up each other with insults. Their brawl is one of his “favorite fight sequences” in film history… if he does say so himself.ġ1. He can’t think of “a more manly-man guy moment” than the sequence between Hobbs (Johnson) and Deckard ( Jason Statham) trading barbs and blows in prison.

Gray predicts Scott Eastwood will be “a massive, massive star.” This will not happen, but he’s worth seeking out in the upcoming Overdrive.ġ0. He’s not here to advertise the 2017 Dodge Demon Challenger, “but I will say they did give us a lot of them, and they’re pretty damn cool cars.”ĩ. He imagines Dwayne Johnson spends every day of his real life being smiled at by soccer moms.Ĩ. It was Charlize Theron‘s idea for her character to have dreadlocks.ħ. “That’s what the old Dom would have done,” he says, “but I wanted to give the audience a more evolved Dom.”Ħ.

The script originally had Dom giving Raldo’s (Celestino Cornielle) keys to his cousin as the race dictated, but Gray suggested otherwise on the day of filming. “If you were take cars up to ninety miles an hour they would fall apart.”ĥ. They had to build multiple cars for each of the two racing in Cuba as they couldn’t rely on finding ones stable enough for the action in the country. He obliged by delivering “a balls out street race” with this Cuba-set opening.Ĥ. He had read up on fan desires for the franchise including the many voices of people wanting a return “to the basics” of earlier films and car racing. So they spruced it up into a muscle car.ģ. The Chevy Impala is one of his favorite cars as evident from his last film, Straight Outta Compton, but people were concerned when he put Dom ( Vin Diesel) in one. “You can throw the camera in any direction and not shoot a bad shot.”Ģ. He was excited for the challenge of shooting an American film, especially one of this size, in Cuba. Keep reading to see what I heard on the commentary track for The Fate of the Furious. Gary Gray ( The Negotiator, The Italian Job). Happily there’s still fun to be had with the latest installment, and at least part of the entertainment value comes courtesy of director F. I may be in the minority on this, but the Fast & Furious franchise reached its peak with Fast Five and has been on a slow downhill slide ever since.

#The fate of the furious series

The third film in the franchise was retconned to take place between Fast & Furious 6 and Furious 7.Welcome to Commentary Commentary, our long-running series of articles exploring the things we can learn from the most interesting filmmaker commentaries available on DVD and Blu-ray. While some might think that the Fast & Furious timeline is relatively straightforward, the death of Han Lue (Sung Kang) in Tokyo Drift and the desire to bring the breakout character back resulted in some changes. Fast & Furious really took off, though, with Fast Five and the addition of Dwayne Johnson's Luke Hobbs. It wasn't until the fourth installment of the franchise that Diesel and Walker shared the screen again. The success of The Fast and The Furious allowed Paul Walker's Brian O'Connor to star in a spinoff/sequel, with the series going in a new direction for the third movie, Tokyo Drift, which included a cameo by Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto at the end.

#The fate of the furious movie

No one expected that the small movie would pave the way for one of the world's biggest movie franchises, but that is exactly what happened. Universal launched the Fast & Furious franchise in 2001 with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker starring a not-so-subtle Point Break homage but with street racing. F9 changes the Fast & Furious timeline again, and here's a complete breakdown of the franchise's events, including F9's flashbacks and retcons.