Fast & Furious
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date | 2001–present |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Total (8 films): $1,009,000,000 |
| Box office | Total (8 films): $5,132,135,697[1] |
The Fast and the Furious (also known as Fast & Furious) is an American franchise based on a series of action films that is largely concerned with illegal street racing, heists and espionage, and includes material in various other media that depicts characters and situations from the films. Distributed by Universal Pictures, the series was established with the 2001 film titled The Fast and the Furious; this was followed by seven sequels, two short films that tie into the series, and as of May 2017,[1] it has become Universal's biggest franchise of all time, currently the sixth-highest-grossing film series of all time with a combined gross of over $5 billion. The ninth installment of the franchise is set to be released on April 10, 2020.[3]
Films
The Fast and the Furious' 1' (2001)
The film is based on an article, titled "Racer X", about New York street clubs that race Japanese cars late at night, although the film is set primarily in Los Angeles. While elite street racer and ex-convict Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his crew: Jesse (Chad Lindberg), Leon (Johnny Strong), Vince (Matt Schulze) and Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez), are under suspicion of stealing expensive electronic equipment by hijacking moving trucks, Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) is an undercover police officer who attempts to find out who exactly is stealing the equipment. He works for FBI agent Bilkins (Thom Barry) and LAPD Sgt. Tanner (Ted Levine).
Falling for Dominic's younger sister, Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster), Brian later confesses to her his status as an undercover police officer and convinces her to come with him to save her brother and his friends from the truck drivers, who have now armed themselves to combat the robberies. He tracks Dominic's location by triangulating his cell phone signal and they arrive at the hijacking in-progress to find Letty, badly injured at the car accident, and Vince critically wounded, having lacerated his arm and been shot by the truck driver. Brian and Mia work together with Dominic, Leon and Letty to rescue Vince. Brian then makes the difficult decision to blow his cover to the crew by phoning in for a medivac. The revelation enrages Dominic, fleeing with Leon, Letty, and Mia as the medivac arrives for Vince.
Brian soon follows Dominic to his house and holds him at gunpoint to prevent him from fleeing further. Jesse arrives shortly afterwards, apologizing for his actions at Race Wars and pleading for Dominic's help with Johnny Tran (Rick Yune). Moments later, Tran and his cousin Lance Nguyen (Reggie Lee) perform a drive-by shooting, killing Jesse. Brian and Dominic chase them, with Dominic driving his late father's modified 1970 Dodge Charger. Dominic forces Lance's motorcycle off the road, severely injuring him, while Brian shoots and kills Tran. Afterwards, Brian and Dominic engage in an impromptu street race, narrowly avoiding a passing train. However, Dominic collides with a semitruck and rolls his car twice, injuring himself, and rendering the Charger undrivable. Instead of arresting him, Brian hands over the keys to his Supra and lets Dominic escape, using the line "I owe you a ten-second car".
The Fast and the Furious 2 - Double Fast Double Furious (2003)
Watched by undercover Customs Agent Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes), Brian is caught by US Customs agents and given a deal by FBI Agent Bilkins and Customs Agent Markham (James Remar) to go undercover and try to bring down drug lord Carter Verone (Cole Hauser) in exchange for the erasure of his criminal record. Brian agrees but only if he is given permission to choose his partner, refusing to partner with the agent assigned to watch him. Brian heads home to Barstow, California, where he recruits Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson), a childhood friend of Brian who had served jail time and is under house arrest, to help him. Pearce agrees, but only for the same deal Brian was offered, and with the help of Monica, Brian and Roman work together to take down Verone. After acquiring confiscated vehicles and being hired by Verone as his drivers, the duo return to a Customs/FBI hideout, where Roman confronts Markham over the latter's interference with the mission. After the situation is cooled down, Brian tells Bilkins and Markham that Verone plans to smuggle the money into his private jet and fly off, but also suspects something wrong with Monica's role in the mission.
Later, Brian and Roman race two of Verone's drivers for their cars and begin to devise a personal back up plan if the operation goes awry. Roman confronts Brian about his attraction to Monica and the constant threat of Verone's men. On the day of the mission, Brian and Roman begin transporting duffel bags of Verone's money, with two of Verone's men Enrique (Mo Gallini) and Roberto (Roberto Sanchez) riding along to watch Brian and Roman. Before the 15-minute window is set, the detective in charge, Whitworth (Mark Boone, Jr.), decides to call in the police to move in for the arrest, resulting in a high-speed chase across the city. The duo lead the police to a warehouse, where a scramble by dozens of street racers disorient the police. Following the scramble, police manage to pull over the Evo and the Eclipse, only to find out that they were driven by two members of Brian's new crew, friends, Tej Parker (Ludacris) and Suki (Devon Aoki).
As Brian approaches the destination point in a Yenko Camaro, Enrique tells him to make a detour away from the airfield. Meanwhile, Roman gets rid of Roberto by using an improvised ejector seat in his (orange) Dodge Challenger powered by nitrous oxide. At the airfield, Customs Agents have Verone's plane and convoy surrounded, only to discover they are duped into a decoy maneuver while Verone is at a boatyard several miles away. As he knew Monica was an undercover agent, he gave her the wrong information on the destination point and plans to use her as leverage. When Brian arrives at the intended drop-off point, Enrique prepares to kill him when Roman suddenly appears and the both of them dispatch Enrique. Verone makes his escape aboard his private yacht, but Brian and Roman use the Yenko Camaro and drive off a ramp, crashing on top of the yacht. The duo manage to apprehend Verone and save Monica.
With their crimes pardoned, Brian and Roman ponder on what to do next other than to settle in Miami when the former mentions starting a garage. Roman asks how they would afford that and Brian reveals that he took some of the money, as Roman also reveals that his pockets aren't empty, having taken money for himself.
The Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift (2006)
After totaling his car in an illegal street race, Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) is sent to live in Tokyo, Japan, with his father, a U.S. Navy officer, in order to avoid juvenile detention or even jail.
While in school, he befriends Twinkie (Bow Wow), a "military brat" who introduces him to the world of drift racing in Japan. Though forbidden to drive, he decides to race against Takashi (Brian Tee) aka D.K. (Drift King). He borrows a Nissan Silvia from Han Lue (Sung Kang), now a business partner to Takashi, and loses, totaling the car because of his lack of knowledge of drifting. To repay his debt for the car he destroyed, Sean works for Han. Later on, Han becomes friends with Sean and teaches him how to drift.
Takashi's uncle Kamata (Sonny Chiba) (the head of the Yakuza) reprimands Takashi for allowing Han to steal from him. Takashi confronts Han, Sean and Neela (Nathalie Kelley), and in doing so, they flee. During the chase, Han is killed in a car accident when his car catches fire. Takashi, Sean, and his father become involved in an armed standoff which is resolved by Neela agreeing to leave with Takashi. Twinkie gives his money to Sean to replace the money Han stole, which Sean then returns to Kamata.
Sean proposes a race against Takashi to determine who must leave Tokyo. Sean and Han's friends then build a 1967 Ford Mustang, with an inline-6 engine and other parts salvaged from Han's Silvia that Sean had destroyed. Sean wins the race and is later challenged by Dominic Toretto.
The Fast & the Furious 4 - Fast & Furious (2009)
About five years after the events of the first film, Dominic and his new crew (Letty, Han, Leo, Santos and Cara) have been hijacking fuel tankers in the Dominican Republic. When their trail gets too hot, Dominic disbands the crew. However, he is later informed that Letty has been murdered. Dominic returns to Los Angeles where he finds traces of nitro-methane at the crash site, and tracks the buyer of the gas to David Park. Meanwhile, Brian O'Conner, who has been working as an FBI agent, is tracking down a drug trafficker named Arturo Braga. When Brian and Dominic cross paths at David Park's apartment, Dominic is about to drop David out the window. But Brian intervenes, and works a scheme where he enters a street race where the winner would join Braga's team of drivers. Although Dominic wins the four-car race by bumping Brian's car, Brian later joins the team by replacing one of Braga's other drivers.
The team meets Fenix Calderon (Laz Alonso) who directs them to drive the heroin across the border using underground tunnels to avoid detection. Brian realizes that the drivers are to be killed following the mission, and when Fenix reveals to Dominic that he killed Letty, Dominic detonates the nitrous in his car, blowing up a bunch of vehicles. In the chaos, Brian hijacks the Hummer that is carrying the heroin. Dominic and Brian drive back to Los Angeles, hiding the heroin in an impound lot. When Dominic learns Brian was the last person to contact Letty, he attacks him until Brian reveals that Letty was working undercover for Brian, tracking down Braga in exchange for clearing Dominic's name. Brian negotiates with the agency to free Dominic if they can lure Braga into personally coming to exchange the heroin for cash. However, at the drop site, it is revealed that the Braga they arrested was a decoy, and that the real Braga (John Ortiz) has escaped, fleeing to Mexico.
Suspended from duty, Brian joins Dominic to go to Mexico and in hopes of catching Braga. Although Braga agreeably surrenders, they are pursued by Braga's men through town and then the tunnels. Fenix T-bones Brian's car right outside the tunnel exit, but before he can kill Brian, Dominic drives into and kills Fenix. As the police arrive, Dominic refuses to escape, saying he is tired of running. Despite Brian's request for clemency, the judge sentences Dominic to 25 years to life. During the prison bus ride to Lompoc penitentiary, Brian and Mia, along with Leo and Santos, arrive in their cars and intercept the bus.
Fast Five (2011)
As Dominic Toretto is being transported by bus to Lompoc Prison,[a] his sister Mia Toretto and friend Brian O'Conner lead an assault on the bus and free Dom. While the authorities search for them, the trio escape to Rio de Janeiro. Awaiting Dom's arrival, Brian and Mia join their friend Vince and other participants on a job to steal three cars from a train. Brian and Mia learn that agents from the DEA are on the train and that the cars are seized property. When Dom arrives with his accomplices, he realizes that their leader Zizi is only interested in stealing the Ford GT40. Dom has Mia steal the car herself before he and Brian fight Zizi and his henchmen, during which Zizi kills the DEA Agents. Dom and Brian are captured and brought to drug lord Hernan Reyes, the owner of the cars and Zizi's boss. Reyes orders the pair interrogated to discover the car's location, but they escape to their safehouse.
Dom, Brian and Mia are framed as the murderers of the DEA Agents, and the U.S. government sends a team of Diplomatic Security Service Agents, led by DSS Agent Luke Hobbs and assisted by state police officer Elena Neves, to Rio to arrest them. While Dom, Brian and Mia examine the car to discover its importance, Vince arrives and is caught removing a computer chip from it. He admits he was planning to sell the chip to Reyes, and Dom angrily forces him to leave. Brian discovers the chip contains financial details of Reyes's criminal empire, including the locations of US$100 million in cash. Hobbs and his team arrive at Dom's safehouse, but find it under assault by Reyes' men searching for the chip. Dom, Brian and Mia escape after a chase across the favelas. Dom suggests they split up and leave Rio, but Mia announces she is pregnant with Brian's child. Dom agrees to stick together, suggesting they steal Reyes' money to start a new life. They organize a team to perform the heist: Han, Roman, Tej, Gisele, Leo, and Santos.
To centralize the cash, Dom's team attacks one of the locations and burns the money in front of Reyes's staff. Afraid of further attacks, Reyes consolidates the remaining money in an evidence vault inside a police station. Dom's team does surveillance, buys equipment, and acquires Reyes's handprint. After their fastest cars prove to be too slow for security cameras, they steal four 2010 Dodge Charger police cars to blend in. Vince rejoins Dom's team after saving Mia from Reyes's men. Hobbs's team eventually finds and arrests Dom, Mia, Brian, and Vince. While transporting them for extradition to the United States in a Gurkha LAPV, the convoy is attacked by Reyes's men. Dom, Brian, Mia, and Vince help Hobbs and Elena escape the ambush, but the rest of Hobbs's men and Vince are killed. Enraged at their team's deaths, Hobbs and Elena agree to help with the heist. The gang breaks into the police station with the LAPV and uses two of the Chargers to tear the vault holding Reyes's money from the building, dragging it through the city.
Advancing on the bridge after an extensive police chase, Dom has Brian continue without him while he smashes the police and Reyes's vehicles with the vault. Brian returns and kills Zizi. Hobbs arrives and executes the injured Reyes in retribution for his team. Hobbs gives Dom and Brian a 24-hour head start to escape on the condition they leave the vault as it is. When Dom and Brian depart, however, Hobbs finds the vault empty, as Dom's crew switched it via a trash truck before they reached the bridge. After splitting the cash and giving Vince's family his cut, Dom's team go their separate ways. On a tropical beach, Brian challenges Dom to a final, no-stakes race to prove who is the better driver. During the end credits, Dom and Brian are seen racing each other in their new cars to the limit.
In a mid-credits scene in Washington, D.C., Hobbs is given a file by Monica Fuentes concerning the hijack of a military convoy in Berlin, where he discovers a recent photo of Dom's wife, Letty, who had been presumed dead.[a]
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Following their successful heist in Brazil,[b] Dominic Toretto and his crew have fled around the world and are living peacefully: Dom lives with Elena Neves; his sister Mia lives with Brian O'Conner and their son, Jack; Gisele Yashar and Han Lue are together; and Roman Pearce and Tej Parker live in luxury. Meanwhile, DSS agents Luke Hobbs and Riley Hicks investigate the destruction of a Russian military convoy by a crew of mercenaries led by former British SAS operative, Owen Shaw. Hobbs locates Dom and convinces him to help capture Owen by showing him a photo of his supposedly murdered girlfriend, Letty Ortiz, who is working with Owen and his crew. Dom wants to do the job by himself but Hobbs convinces him that the whole "family" is needed. When Dom's crew is all together at their headquarters, Hobbs tells them that Owen is stealing components to create an electromagnetic pulse weapon called "Nightshade", intending to sell it to the highest bidder. Dom and his crew accept the mission in exchange for pardons.
In London, Owen's hideout is found but is revealed to be a distraction while Owen's crew performs a heist at an Interpol building. Owen flees in a custom car, detonating his hideout and disabling most of the police, leaving Dom, Brian, Tej, Roman, Han, Gisele, Hobbs, and Riley to pursue him. Letty arrives to help Owen, shooting Dom without hesitation before escaping. Meanwhile, Owen's investigation into Dom's crew reveals Letty's relationship with Dom, but she is revealed to be suffering from amnesia. Dom's crew learns that Owen is connected to Arturo Braga, a drug lord whom Dom and Brian imprisoned.[c] While Tej purchases several cars from an auction for the mission, Brian returns to Los Angeles as a prisoner to question Braga, who reveals that Owen helped him build his drug cartel and Letty survived the explosion; Owen took her in after discovering her amnesia.
With FBI help, Brian is released from prison and regroups with the team in London. Dom challenges Letty in a street racing competition; afterward, he returns her cross necklace, but she chooses to remain with Owen. After Letty leaves, Owen arrives and offers Dom a chance to walk away, threatening to hurt his family, but Dom refuses. Tej tracks Owen's next attack on a Spanish NATO base. Owen's crew assaults a highway military convoy carrying a computer chip to complete Nightshade. Dom's crew interferes while Owen, accompanied by Letty, commandeers a tank. Brian and Roman flip the tank before it causes further damage, resulting in Letty being thrown from the vehicle as Dom saves her. Owen and his crew are captured, but reveal Mia has been kidnapped by Owen's henchmen Vegh and Klaus. Hobbs is forced to release Owen, and Riley, who is revealed to be Owen's covert accomplice, leaves with him; Letty chooses to remain with Dom.
Owen's group boards a moving Antonov An-124 as Dom's crew gives chase. Dom, Letty, and Brian board the craft; Brian rescues Mia and escapes. The plane attempts to take off but is held down by excess weight as the rest of the team tether the plane to their vehicles. Gisele seemingly sacrifices herself to save Han from Owen's henchman, Adolfson. Letty kills Riley and escapes with Hobbs to safety, but Dom pursues Owen and the computer chip. As the plane crashes, Owen is thrown from it and seriously injured, and Dom drives a Charger out of the exploding plane. Dom reunites with his crew and gives the chip to Hobbs to secure their pardons. Dom and the others return to his old family home in Los Angeles. Hobbs and Elena, now working together, arrive to confirm the crew's freedom; Elena accepts that Dom loves Letty as the group prepares to say grace.
In a mid-credits scene, Han is involved in a car chase in Tokyo when he is suddenly broadsided by an oncoming Mercedes-Benz W140.[d] The driver[e] walks away after leaving Letty's cross necklace by the crash, and calls Dom, saying: "You don't know me, but you're about to", as Han's car explodes.
Furious 7 (2015)
After defeating Owen Shaw and securing pardons for their past crimes,[f] Dominic Toretto, Brian O'Conner and the team have returned to US to live normal lives. Dom tries to help Letty Ortiz regain her memory, while Brian accustoms himself to life as a father.
Meanwhile, Owen's elder brother Deckard Shaw breaks into the hospital, where the comatose Owen is held in London and vows to exact revenge. Deckard breaks into the DSS field office in LA to extract profiles of Dom's crew and fights Luke Hobbs before he escapes, detonating a bomb that severely injures Hobbs. Dom learns from his sister Mia that she is pregnant again and convinces her to tell Brian. However, a letter bomb sent by Deckard, who has apparently killed Han Lue in Tokyo,[f] explodes and destroys the Toretto house.
Dom meets Hobbs and learns about Deckard before he travels to Tokyo to retrieve Han's body and acquires the objects found at the crash site from Sean Boswell.[g] As Dom, Brian, Tej Parker and Roman Pearce mourn Han and Gisele Yashar at Han's funeral in LA, Dom spots Deckard spying on them and confronts him in an underground tunnel, but Deckard flees when a covert ops team, led by government agent Mr. Nobody, arrives. Mr. Nobody tells Dom that he will help them in stopping Deckard if he helps him retrieve God's Eye, a computer program capable of tracking a specific individual using anything on a digital network, and save its creator Ramsey from Mose Jakande, a Nigerian terrorist.
The team airdrops their off-road modified cars over the Caucasus Mountains in Azerbaijan and ambush Jakande's convoy, where they rescue Ramsey and leave for the Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi. They steal the flash drive containing the God's Eye chip from a billionaire hidden in a Lykan HyperSport. With God's Eye secure, Dom, Brian, Nobody, and his team use it to hunt Deckard to an abandoned factory, but are ambushed by Jakande and his henchmen, who have allied with Deckard, and are forced to flee while Jakande obtains God's Eye.
Mr. Nobody is medically extracted, while the team returns to LA. Dom plans to fight Deckard alone, while Letty, Brian, Tej and Roman resolve to protect Ramsey from Jakande. Brian promises Mia that he will fully dedicate himself to their family after he defeats Deckard and Jakande. As Jakande pursues Brian and the rest of the team with a stealth helicopter and an aerial drone, Ramsey attempts to hack into God's Eye. Discovering the situation, Hobbs leaves the hospital and destroys the drone with an ambulance. After battling and killing Jakande's henchman Kiet, Brian hijacks a signal repeater tower that allows Ramsey to control God's Eye and shut it down.
As the military closes into the city, Jakande attempts to flee and spots Dom and Deckard engaging in a brawl atop a public parking garage. Intervening, Jakande turns on Deckard and attacks both men. Dom uses the distraction to defeat Deckard by causing part of the parking garage to collapse beneath him. Dom attempts to crash his Dodge Charger onto Jakande's helicopter, where he leaves a bag of grenades on the helicopter and crashes on the rubble of the garage. Hobbs shoots the grenades, destroying the helicopter and killing Jakande.
After Brian and Hobbs help Letty bring out Dom's unconscious body, Letty cradles Dom and tells him that she has fully regained her memories and has remembered their wedding. Dom regains consciousness. Deckard is arrested by Hobbs and CIA, where he is locked up in a black site prison. The rest of the team relaxes on a tropical beach. Brian and Mia play with their son Jack, while Dom, Letty, Roman, Tej, and Ramsey look on, acknowledging that Brian is happily retired with his family. Dom drives away and Brian catches up with him. As Dom recalls his memories with Brian, they bid each other farewell and drive off in separate directions.
The Fate of the Furious (2017)
Dominic "Dom" Toretto and Letty Ortiz are on their honeymoon in Havana when Dom's cousin Fernando gets in trouble owing money to local racer Raldo. Sensing Raldo is a loan shark, Dom challenges Raldo to a race, pitting Fernando's 1949 Chevrolet Fleetline against Raldo's 1956 Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria, and wagering his own 1961 Chevrolet Impala. After narrowly winning the race, Dom allows Raldo to keep his car, saying his respect is enough.
The next day, an elusive woman named Cipher coerces Dom into working for her by showing him something on her phone. Shortly afterward, Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent Luke Hobbs is given an off-the-books mission to retrieve an EMP device from a military outpost in Berlin, and is warned that he will face arrest if captured. Hobbs recruits Dom and his team, comprising Letty, Roman Pearce, Tej Parker, and Ramsey, to help him retrieve the device.
During the getaway, Dom forces Hobbs off the road and steals the device for Cipher, who is a cyberterrorist. Hobbs is arrested and confined in the same high-security prison which holds Deckard Shaw. They initiate a prison escape and are recruited by intelligence operative Mr. Nobody and his protégé, Little Nobody, to help the team find Dom and capture Cipher. When Hobbs and the team protest working with Deckard, he reveals that Cipher had hired his brother Owen to steal an electromagnetic pulse weapon called Nightshade and Mose Jakande to steal God's Eye, a mass surveillance computer program created by Ramsey.[h] The team tracks Dom and Cipher to their own location. The two attack the base, and steal God's Eye.
When Dom shows frustration with Cipher, she shows him his ex-lover and DSS agent Elena Neves, as well as their son, whose existence Dom was unaware of, having kidnapped both to secure his loyalty. Cipher sends Dom to retrieve a nuclear football held by the Russian Minister of Defense in New York City. With the help of Raldo, Dom briefly evades Cipher and persuades Deckard and Owen's mother, Magdalene, to help him, offering to arrange the Shaw brothers' freedom from government custody if they rescue his son from Cipher's plane. Cipher hacks into the electronics systems of many cars, remotely controlling them via auto drive, causing them to blockade the convoy so that Dom can take the football.
The team intercepts Dom in their cars, but Dom escapes and seemingly kills Deckard. Letty catches up to Dom and steals the football but is nearly killed by Cipher's enforcer, Connor Rhodes, before Dom stops him and forces the football from Letty. In retaliation, Cipher lets Rhodes execute a tied-up Elena in front of Dom, threatening to kill his son next should he fail to cooperate with her again. Dom infiltrates a military separatist base in Russia, using the EMP device to disable security and activate a nuclear submarine, enabling Cipher to hijack it and attempt to use its arsenal to trigger a nuclear war.
They are intercepted by the team, who shut down the submarine's nuclear weapons and drive toward the gates that would prevent the sub from leaving to sea, while being pursued by separatists. Deckard, who faked his death with the help of Magdalene and Dom's former crew members Leo and Santos, teams up with Owen and infiltrates Cipher's plane to rescue Dom's son. Once Deckard reports that the child is safe, Dom turns on Cipher and kills Rhodes before rejoining his team. Cipher fires an infrared homing missile at Dom's Charger, but he breaks away from his team and lures the missile to the trailing submarine.
The team forms a vehicular blockade, shielding Dom from the explosion as the submarine is destroyed. After killing all of Cipher's henchmen, Deckard reaches the front of the plane and confronts Cipher, who escapes by parachute, while Owen holds the pilot at gunpoint and forces him to land the plane. Mr. Nobody and his protégé visit Dom and his team in New York City to report that Cipher is still at large. Hobbs has his record cleared and is offered his DSS job back, but he declines and chooses to spend more time with his daughter. Deckard delivers Dom his son, putting his differences aside with Dom and Hobbs, and is accepted into their family. Dom names his son Brian and celebrates with his friends.
Hobbs and Shaw (2019)
Vin Diesel announced in an interview with Variety that potential spin-offs for the series were in the early stages of development.[4][5] A spin-off film centered around Hobbs and Jason Statham's character Deckard Shaw has been announced by Universal and has a release date of July 26, 2019,[6] with Variety reporting that Shane Black is being considered to direct and Morgan returning to write the script.[7] The announcement of the spin-off provoked a response on Instagram by Tyrese Gibson, criticizing Johnson for causing the ninth Fast & Furious film to be delayed for another year.[6]
On October 23, 2017, Dwayne Johnson posted a video on Instagram which showed the finished script for the spin-off, titled Hobbs and Shaw. In February 2018, David Leitch entered talks to direct the film.[8] In March 2018, it was reported that the film will start production in September 2018.[9]
Future
In February 2016, Diesel announced the ninth film and tenth film would be released on April 10, 2020,[10][11] and April 2, 2021, respectively, and that the tenth film would serve as the final film in the series.[12][13] Justin Lin is reportedly in line to direct the ninth installment.[14] It was also announced that Jordana Brewster would return for the ninth installment.
In September of the same year, both Caleb and Cody Walker revealed to Entertainment Tonight that their brother's character may possibly return for another cameo in the franchise.[15]
Short films
The Turbo Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
The short film was included on a new print of the DVD of the first film in June 2003 to bridge the first two films.
Brian O'Conner packs his bags and leaves Los Angeles, before the LAPD gets a chance to arrest him for letting Dominic escape. While the FBI launch a national manhunt for him, Brian travels across Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, winning every street race he participates in, with his red Dodge Stealth. However, he is forced to ditch his car at a motel in San Antonio when police officers are notified of his presence. When they collect the car, he manages to hitch a ride from an unknown woman (Minka Kelly), despite her knowing who he really is. She drops him at a used car lot, with him realizing she knows that he is a wanted man. There, he buys a green Nissan Skyline GT-R R34. Later, collecting money from street races, he modifies the car with new rims and repaints it silver before traveling eastbound and winning more races on the way. Upon reaching Jacksonville, Florida, Brian heads south toward Miami, where he sees Slap Jack's Toyota Supra and Orange Julius' Mazda RX-7 (both 2 Fast 2 Furious characters) before the screen reads "2 be continued...".
Los Bandoleros (2009)
Tego Leo (Tego Calderón) is in a Dominican Republic prison, ranting about corporations holding back the electric car and starting wars for oil. Meanwhile, on the streets, Rico Santos (Don Omar) chats to an old man unable to find enough gas. Han Lue (Sung Kang) arrives and is collected from the airport by Cara (Mirtha Michelle) and Malo (F. Valentino Morales). They drive him back to Santos' house, where his aunt Rubia (Adria Carrasco) is struggling with rising prices linked to the cost of gasoline and Dominic is working on his car. The team then enjoy a welcome meal with the family. After breaking Leo out of prison, they head to a club, where Han and Cara flirt, while Dominic meets up with local politician Elvis (Juan Fernandez), who informs them of a window of opportunity to hijack a gasoline shipment. While relaxing at the club afterwards, Dominic is surprised by the arrival of Letty, who has tracked him from Mexico. The two drive together to the beach, where they "rekindle their relationship".
Storyline chronology
Bridging the narrative gap between two or more of the feature films in the series are two short films that were released. Also, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift does not take place third in the series but sixth of the feature films. Below is a table of all films, both short and feature length, in chronological order. Real world release dates are also noted.[16]
| Timeline order | Title | Release date |
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1 |
The Fast and the Furious | June 22, 2001 |
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The Turbo Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious | June 3, 2003 |
2 |
2 Fast 2 Furious | June 6, 2003 |
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Los Bandoleros | July 28, 2009 |
3 |
Fast & Furious | April 3, 2009 |
4 |
Fast Five | April 29, 2011 |
5 |
Fast & Furious 6 | May 24, 2013 |
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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift | June 16, 2006 |
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Furious 7 | April 3, 2015 |
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The Fate of the Furious | April 14, 2017 |
Cast and crew members
| Crew/Detail | The Fast and the Furious (2001) |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
Fast & Furious (2009) |
Fast Five (2011) |
Fast & Furious 6 (2013) |
Furious 7 (2015) |
The Fate of the Furious (2017) |
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| Director | Rob Cohen | John Singleton | Justin Lin | James Wan | F. Gary Gray | |||
| Producer(s) | Neal H. Moritz | Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel, Michael Fottrell | Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel, Clayton Townsend | Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel, Michael Fottrell | Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel, Michael Fottrell, Chris Morgan | |||
| Writer(s) | Screenplay by: Gary Scott Thompson Erik Bergquist David Ayer Based on: "Racer X" by Ken Li |
Screenplay by: Michael Brandt Derek Haas Story by: Michael Brand Derek Haas Gary Scott Thompson |
Written by: Chris Morgan Based on characters by: Gary Scott Thompson | |||||
| Cinematographer(s) | Erison Core | Matthew F. Leonetti | Stephen F. Windon | Amir Mokri | Stephen F. Windon | Stephen F. Windon Marc Spicer |
Stephen F. Windon | |
| Composer | BT | David Arnold | Brian Tyler | Lucas Vidal | Brian Tyler | |||
| Editor(s) | Peter Honess | Bruce Cannon Dallas Puett |
Kelly Matsumoto Dallas Puett Fred Raskin |
Christian Wagner Fred Raskin |
Kelly Matsumoto Fred Raskin Christian Wagner |
Christian Wagner Kelly Matsumoto Dylan Highsmith Greg D'auria Leigh Folsom Boyd |
Christian Wagner Leigh Folsom Boyd Dylan Highsmith Kirk M. Morri |
Christian Wagner Paul Rubell |
| Costume Designer(s) | Sanja Milkovic Hays | |||||||
| Production Designer | Waldemar Kalinowski | Keith Brian Burns | Ida Random | Peter Wenham | Jan Roelfs | Bill Brzeski | ||
| Running time | 106 minutes | 107 minutes | 104 minutes | 107 minutes | 131 minutes (extended - 132 minutes) | 130 minutes (extended - 131 minutes) | 137 minutes (extended - 140 minutes) | 136 minutes (extended, only on digital - 148 minutes) |
| MPAA rating | PG-13 | PG-13 (Theatrical version) Unrated (Extended version) |
PG-13 (Theatrical version) Unrated (Extended Director’s Cut, only on Digital) | |||||
Characters
Reception
Box office performance
| Film | Release date | Budget | Box office gross | Box office ranking | Ref(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North America | Other territories |
Worldwide | All time North America |
All time Other territories |
All time worldwide | ||||
| The Fast and the Furious | June 22, 2001 | $38,000,000 | $144,533,925 | $62,750,000 | $207,283,925 | #299 | #573 | [17] | |
| 2 Fast 2 Furious | June 6, 2003 | $76,000,000 | $127,154,901 | $109,195,760 | $236,350,661 | #388 | #476 | [18] | |
| The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift | June 16, 2006 | $85,000,000 | $62,514,415 | $95,953,877 | $158,468,292 | #1,121 | [19][20] | ||
| Fast & Furious | April 3, 2009 | $85,000,000 | $155,064,265 | $208,100,000 | $363,164,265 | #281 | #257 | #244 | [21] |
| Fast Five | April 29, 2011 | $125,000,000 | $209,837,675 | $416,300,000 | $626,137,675 | #137 | #85 | #89 | [22] |
| Fast & Furious 6 | May 24, 2013 | $160,000,000 | $238,679,850 | $550,000,000 | $788,679,850 | #101 | #38 | #49 | [23] |
| Furious 7 | April 3, 2015 | $190,000,000 | $353,007,020 | $1,163,038,891 | $1,516,045,911 | #37 | #3 | #6 | [24] |
| The Fate of the Furious | April 14, 2017 | $250,000,000 | $226,008,385 | $1,009,996,733 | $1,236,005,118 | #140 | #6[25] | #11 | [26] |
| Total | $1,009,000,000 | $1,516,800,436 | $3,615,335,261 | $5,132,135,697 | 10[27][28] | -[29] | 6[30] | [1] | |
List indicator(s)
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Critical and public response
| Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | CinemaScore |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Fast and the Furious | 53% (147 reviews)[31] | 58 (34 reviews)[32] | B+[33] |
| 2 Fast 2 Furious | 36% (160 reviews)[34] | 38 (36 reviews)[35] | A-[33] |
| The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift | 37% (114 reviews)[36] | 45 (32 reviews)[37] | A-[33] |
| Fast & Furious | 29% (175 reviews)[38] | 46 (28 reviews)[39] | A-[33] |
| Fast Five | 77% (196 reviews)[40] | 66 (41 reviews)[41] | A[33] |
| Fast & Furious 6 | 69% (198 reviews)[42] | 61 (39 reviews)[43] | A[33] |
| Furious 7 | 80% (240 reviews)[44] | 67 (50 reviews)[45] | A[33] |
| The Fate of the Furious | 66% (253 reviews)[46] | 56 (45 reviews)[47] | A[33] |
Franchise extension
Theme park attractions
Universal has incorporated several theme park attractions involving the Fast & Furious franchise. Universal Studios Hollywood and its Studio Tour has featured several of the picture car vehicles. From 2006 to 2013, The Fast & The Furious: Extreme Close-Up attraction was part of the Studio Tour.[48][49][50] On June 25, 2015, Universal Studios Hollywood allotted the final portion of their Studio Tour for the dark ride Fast and Furious: Supercharged.[51] Universal Orlando announced the development of a ride of the same name to open in 2018.[52]
Fast & Furious Live
Fast & Furious Live is a live show that combines stunt drivers, pyrotechnics and projection mapping.[53] The show had two preview shows on January 11–12 at Liverpool's Echo Arena. It officially began its tour at London's O2 Arena on January 19, 2018, followed by a worldwide tour until later in 2018. On March 1, 2018, it was revealed on the tour's website that five new dates had been released for September.
Tour dates
UK Tour (Part 1)
The first leg of the UK tour ran from 11–21 January, consisting of five shows:
- 11 & 12 January 2018: Echo Arena, Liverpool
- 19–21 January 2018: The O2 Arena, London
Global Tour (Part 1)
The second and first leg of the worldwide tour started in Belgium on 27 January, and is scheduled to end on 25 March. 23 shows are lined up in this section of the tour:
- 27 & 28 January 2018: Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium
- 2–4 February 2018: Pala Alpitour, Turin, Italy
- 9–11 February 2018: Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria
- 16–18 February 2018: Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany
- 24 & 25 February 2018: Gelredome, Arnhem, The Netherlands
- 2–4 March 2018: Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany
- 9–11 March 2018: Park&Suites Arena, Montpellier, France
- 16 & 17 March 2018: MEO Arena, Lisbon, Portugal
- 23–25 March 2018: Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain
UK Tour (Part 2)
The third and concluding leg of the UK tour will begin on 6 April and will run until 13 May. There will be 3 shows performed over six cities, resulting in 18 overall:
- 6–8 April 2018: Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle
- 13–15 April 2018: Manchester Arena, Manchester
- 20–22 April 2018: Arena Birmingham, Birmingham
- 27–29 April 2018: FlyDSA Arena, Sheffield
- 4–6 May 2018: The SSE Arena, Belfast
- 11–13 May 2018: SSE Hydro, Glasgow
Global Tour (Part 2)
The fourth and final leg of the tour will begin in Switzerland on 18 May and will conclude in Prague, Czech Republic on 22 September. A total of 26 shows will be held in this leg.
- 18–20 May 2018: Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland
- 27–29 May 2018: Ericsson Globe, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1–3 June 2018: Telenor Arena, Oslo, Norway
- 8–10 June 2018: Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland
- 15–17 June 2018: Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 22–24 June 2018: Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin, Germany
- 29 June–1 July 2018: AccorHotels Arena, Paris, France
- 7 & 8 September 2018: Pala Alpitour, Turin, Italy
- 15 September 2018: Gelredome, Arnhem, The Netherlands
- 21 & 22 September 2018: O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic
Soundtracks
Video games
The film series has spawned several racing video games for various systems. The arcade game The Fast and the Furious (known as Wild Speed in Japan) was released by Raw Thrills in 2004.[54] In 2006, the video game The Fast and the Furious was released for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. Several games (The Fast and the Furious: Pink Slip, Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Fast & Furious: Adrenaline, Fast & Furious 6: The Game and Fast & Furious Legacy) have all been released for iOS and are available on the iTunes App Store, for Android devices there is official version of Fast & Furious 6: The Game and "Fast & Furious Legacy". In 2013, Fast & Furious: Showdown was released for the PC (Windows OS), Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. Various cars, locations and characters from the series have also appeared in the Facebook game Car Town. In 2015, in a deal with Microsoft Studios, a standalone expansion of Forza Horizon 2 for Xbox One and Xbox 360 was released titled Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious.
Toys and model kits
Racing Champions released diecast metal replicas of the film's cars in different scales from 1/18 to 1/64.[55] RadioShack sold ZipZaps micro RC versions of the cars in 2002.[56] 1/24 scale plastic model kits of the hero cars were manufactured by AMT Ertl. Johnny Lightning under the JL Full Throttle Brand released 1/64th and 1/24th models of the cars from Tokyo Drift. These models were designed by Diecast Hall of Fame designer Eric Tscherne. Greenlight also sold some cars from the new films from the series and some of them from the previous series.[57] Hot Wheels has released 1/64 models since 2013.[58]
International locations
The Fast and the Furious franchise was filmed in a number of countries including: Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States.[59]
See also
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