While developing the film, Universal completely departed from any street racing elements prevalent in previous films, to transform the franchise into a heist action series involving cars. By doing so, they hoped to attract wider audiences that might otherwise be put off by a heavy emphasis on cars and car culture. Fast Five is considered the transitional film in the series, featuring only one car race and giving more attention to action set pieces such as gun fights, brawls and the heist.
Fast Five was initially conceived to conclude the franchise, but following strong box office performance and high critical praise, Universal proceeded to develop a sixth installment. Furthermore, the film is noted for the addition of Dwayne Johnson to the cast, whose performance was critically praised. In 2000, actor Paul Walker had worked with director Rob Cohen on The Skulls. Upon hearing this, Walker signed on immediately; finding his co-star proved difficult. The studio warmed toward the idea of Timothy Olyphant in the role of Dominic Toretto, due to the success of the blockbuster Gone in 60 Seconds , but he declined. Moritz persisted on Vin Diesel following his performance in Pitch Black , with Diesel accepting after proposing several script changes.
Moritz had difficulty choosing between the titles Racer X, Redline, Race Wars and Street Wars, but was ultimately inspired by a documentary on American International Pictures, which included the 1954 film The Fast and the Furious. Moritz was traded use of some stock footage to its director, Roger Corman, in exchange for a license to use the title. Upon release in June 2001, the film shattered box office expectations and a 2002 sequel was green-lit by September.
The toll of multiple re-shoots dissuaded Wan from returning to the franchise and Universal hired F. This film was to begin a new trilogy, which will conclude the franchise. Diesel announced that introducing Kurt Russell and Charlize Theron as characters in Furious 7 would help to reach this. The film was released in 2017 and received mixed reviews from critics, many of whom praised the performances and action sequences, but criticized the storyline and the long running time. It was an unabashed commercial success, grossing over $1.2 billion worldwide.
Universal later announced that final two films will be released in May 2020 and April 2021, with Lin returning to direct. It was announced that Brewster would reprise her role as Mia Toretto, while screenwriter Daniel Casey was hired for the ninth film; F9 is the first film since Tokyo Drift not to be written by Morgan. Pre-production began in February 2019 in London, and filming began in June and concluded in November. John Cena was cast as the film's villain, portraying Jakob Toretto, Dom's brother. Moreover, Sung Kang returned as Han, while the film is the first to star Helen Mirren and saw Lucas Black reprise his role as Sean Boswell from Tokyo Drift.
F9 was originally scheduled to be theatrically released on May 22, 2020, but was pushed back a year to April 2, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was then pushed back to May 28, 2021, and finally released in the United States on June 25. Universal lacked a major event film for 2014 and rushed Furious 7 into pre-production in mid-2013 due to its status as a bankable asset. Lin decided not to return to direct the seventh film, as he was still performing post-production on Fast & Furious 6. James Wan, primarily known for horror films, took over directorial duties.
On November 30, 2013, Walker died in a single-vehicle crash, with filming only half-completed. Following Walker's death, filming was delayed for script rewrites and his brothers, Caleb and Cody, were used as stand-ins to complete his remaining scenes. The script rewrites completed the story arcs of both Walker and Brewster's characters. Visual effects company Weta Digital was hired to re-create Walker's likeness.
Ultimately, the film's delays saw it being released in April 2015, where it became the highest-grossing film in the franchise, grossing $1.5 billion. It was also the most critically successful, with praise being aimed at the film's action sequences and its emotional tribute to Walker. Universal attempted to bring back Diesel for the third installment, but he again declined due to other projects and a dislike for the script. After failing to secure the returns of Walker or any other member of the original cast, Universal ordered a reboot of the franchise.
It is the first film in the series to start its tradition of filming in locations outside the United States. Moritz returned and hired director Justin Lin, having been impressed with Lin's work for the film Better Luck Tomorrow , which shared similar elements with Tokyo Drift. Moreover, the series were able to bring Diesel in for a cameo appearance, in exchange for letting the actor's production company acquire the rights to the Riddick character. The third film was the least financially successful of the franchise, received lukewarm reception and left the future of the franchise in limbo.
Universal'sFast & Furious franchise has become a massive hit over the last decade. From the humble beginnings of street racing and small crimes, the Fast Sagahas become a giant action blockbuster series filled with increasingly unbelievable stunts and plots. Throughout it all, theFast & Furious movies have mostly remained committed to retaining a core group of characters.
Away from the franchise, Diesel made a string of box office or critical flops, including The Chronicles of Riddick , The Pacifier and Find Me Guilty . After discussions with Universal, the pair shared an interest in reviving the series. After signing Diesel and confirming the return of Lin, Universal worked to track the first film's original co-stars and re-signed Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster in mid-2008.
Walker was initially reluctant to rejoin the franchise after six years, but Diesel assured him that film would be considered the first "true" sequel. Morgan returned to write after the critical praise for the character Han Lue. Given the apparent death of the character in the third film, the timeline of the franchise was altered to account for his appearance. With the emphasis on car culture toned down, the fourth film, Fast & Furious, was a commercial success.
Although critical reception was mixed, it reinvigorated the franchise, as well as the star power of Diesel and Walker. In celebration on the release of the latest installment of the "Fast & Furious" film franchise, we thought would spotlight some incredible cast members, who also happen to be massive dog lovers. Thirty-five minutes in, Fast & Furious 9 — finally released in Indian cinemas — has its most interesting idea. Tyrese Gibson's comic-relief Roman Pearce suggests that the Fast crew might be invincible. That's F9 acknowledging the team's superhero status that became clear to the audience a few movies ago. This meta discussion almost feels like co-writers Daniel Casey and Justin Lin are commenting on the criticisms levied against the Fast & Furious series.
It also imparts a degree of self-awareness to F9, allowing the new chapter to get in on the big joke that its characters seem to survive anything and everything. Charlize Theron gets in on the act later too, tying a fellow villain's predicament to film structure. F9 knows it's a Fast & Furious movie — and that they do not make sense. The ridiculous action sequences and narrative switch ups are core components of the Fast and the Furious franchise, but they are not the foundation of its success. A singular idea courses through the entire series, informing every decision the films and characters make.
For the ninth installment in the series,F9 tells the next chapter in the story of Dominic Toretto and his formidable crew. The movie takes place years after the events ofThe Fate of the Furious and once again puts Dom's team at the center of a crisis that could change the world. The film's villain, Dom's secret brother Jakob, has a plan to activate a device that will take control of any device on Earth that runs on code. This story not only raises the stakes of theFast & Furious franchise but also continues the exploration of the importance of family. Furious 7- It's revealed/retconned in this film that Han's death was actually caused by Deckard Shaw, who discovered Han's location thanks to intel he stole from the DSS.
Deckard also leaves Dom's cross necklace by the wreckage, which is recovered by Sean Boswell along with a picture of Gisele. Sean gives these items to Dom when he visits Tokyo to claim Han's remains and return them to the U.S. for the funeral. Avenging Han's death is the driving force behind the team's motivation in this final appearance of Kang's beloved character. Whether you're a die-hard Fast & Furious fan or you just really love Vin Diesel, there's no denying that The Fast and the Furious franchise has delivered quality action films for the past two decades. The chemistry between the characters makes the series compelling, but there's an unexpected sense of heart that may be from the real-life bonds made over the years.
(The heartwarming sentiments after Paul Walker's death and the reappearance of former cast members in sequel after sequel speak to that.) But just how far have they come from their first Fast and Furious film? We're tracking down the original cast members and our favorites throughout the series for a look at The Fast and the Furious stars, then and now. Charlize Theron is joining the cast as a villain, Cipher, who gets Dominic to turn against the crew he calls family. But Dom isn't the only character whose role in the series has changed over time.
The action star, who portrays street car racer Dominic Toretto and has served as a producer since the fourth installment in the franchise, has welcomed three children in the years since the film's 2001 premiere. At long last, the ninth movie in the Fast & Furious franchise is coming to theaters. But there also come a couple of game-changers, namely John Cena as Dom's brother and the surprising return of fan-favorite character Han. Browse 122 fast and furious cast stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Fast & Furious 6- Rarely does a villain stick around in this franchise for more than one installment, butJason Statham's Deckard Shaw has proven to be a worthy opponent for Dom and his crew.
He was introduced to audiences at the tail end of the sixth film when he kills Han in order to avenge the severe injury to his younger brother, Owen. Shaw comes with a particular set of skills honed by his experience as an assassin in a clandestine organization and follows his own moral code. He earned positions as a lieutenant in the U.K.'s Special Boat Service and a major in the Special Air Service, but when his country no longer needed him, his superiors dispatched a team of agents to kill him. The Fast and the Furious - Though no one has appeared in every singleFast and Furious film, Diesel andPaul Walker have come the closest. Diesel declined to return for the sequel, saying that the screenplay was inferior to its predecessor.
Cohen also declined the sequel, opting to develop the film xXx , which starred Diesel in the lead role. To account for these changes, Universal commissioned the writers to create a standalone sequel with Walker in the lead and brought in John Singleton as the new director. Filming was delayed by a year and the production location shifted to Miami.
Tyrese Gibson, who worked with Singleton on the film Baby Boy , was hired as Walker's new co-star and was the first entry in the series to feature long-running cast member Ludacris. Fast & Furious is a media franchise centered on a series of action films that are largely concerned with illegal street racing, heists, spies and family. The franchise also includes short films, a television series, live shows, video games and theme park attractions. Even though the Fast and Furious franchise has become a blockbuster series over the years, it took a few films for it to find its footing and figure out what it wanted to be. Most of the main players have stuck with it in over the long haul, but the core group didn't come together overnight. In fact, in 2017,a producer revealed that Timothy Olyphant was initially targeted to star in the first film.
The Fast and the Furious is a action crime film, which was released in 2001. The film was the starting point for a franchise which now entails eight movies and one spin-off movie. Just as the action is amped up in each new sequel, so too is the importance of family stressed again and again. In the later films, Brian's bro-cop becomes a man struggling to reconcile his need for speed with his obligations as a young father. Since Tokyo Drift, every film in the franchise has been precipitated by someone hurting someone else's loved one. Before and after every punch or crash, a character will talk about the importance of family.
The actor had been in a handful of films already, like 2000's "Boiler Room" and the sci-fi horror movie "Pitch Black," but his fame skyrocketed when he was cast as Dom in the series' first film. Long before Tej, Ramsey, and Cipher came along as the computer wizards of the franchise, Jesse sort of played that part for Dom's nascent crew back when they were boosting DVD players and other outdated tech from moving 18-wheelers. (It was a simpler time.) In the very first film, Jesse explains how he was "good in, like, math and algebra and shit" and how car engines calm him down. Except that last part is sort of a Catch-22, because those very same car engines that pacify him also get Jesse all revved up, which leads him to go slip for slip with original bad boy Johnny Tran.
(If this franchise has taught us anything, it's that going slip for slip always ends badly.) This is obviously a very bad idea, and not simply because Jesse decides to race Tran in a car that actually belongs to his imprisoned dad . Tran naturally smokes him, and the triggered Jesse zooms off into the sunset while having a panic attack rather than paying up. Also a bad idea—in the end, Tran and his crew machine gun many, many holes into Jesse outside of Dom's house. In this thrilling instalment of the motor-mayhem franchise, Dominic seems to have betrayed those closest to him by joining forces with cyber-terrorist Cipher . She has a hold over him and it's up to his friends to foil her plans.
A nonstop blast of kinetic energy from the opening car race in Cuba to the Arctic finish, Fast & Furious 8 offers rip-roaring action, a captivating Bond-style plot and tongue-in-cheek smarts. The giant wrecking ball cutting a swathe through a fleet of cars and the auto-avalanche chase through Manhattan are worth tuning in for alone, with Johnson and Jason Statham's anti-bromance the stuff of classic buddy movies. The duo, who relocated to his native Australia to raise their family, met in early 2010 and tied the knot that same year. They welcomed daughter India in 2012 and twin sons Tristan and Sasha in 2012. The multi-hyphenate married Samantha Lee Gibson on Valentine's Day in 2017 and they welcomed a daughter, Soraya, in 2018, before splitting in 2020.
2 Fast 2 Furious - Introduced as a protagonist in the franchise's second film,Eva Mendes' undercover U.S. Customs agent Monica Fuentes has returned over the years to play an integral role in some of the biggest moments. In her role as an assistant and lover to drug dealer Carter Verone, Monica comes into contact with Brian and Roman when they, too, go undercover to bring him down. Monica and Brian engage in a brief romance though Roman never trusts her completely.
Unfortunately, her relationship with Brian causes her to blow her cover and put her own life at risk when she warns him that Verone plans to kill them after their drug delivery. 2 Fast 2 Furious - Completing the comedic pairing of Roman and Tej isLudacris' character Tej Parker, a former street racer, mechanic and technical wizard introduced in the franchise's second feature film. Before becoming part of Dom's crew, he was a friend of Brian O'Conner's in Miami, helping him to participate in organized street races. Though he's better suited to the tech side of things or using his skills and connections to pull off stunts like the "scramble" that allowed Brian and Roman to evade the Miami police, Tej does occasionally get behind the wheel of a car. You might have guessed that based on her introduction in the 2001 film as a no-nonsense girlfriend of Dominic Toretto, but you'd be hard-pressed to see the trajectory her character's arc would eventually take.
Despite his apparent death, Kang returned as Han in later installments of the franchise that were set before the events of "Tokyo Drift." The first film was released in 2001, which began the original tetralogy of films focused on illegal street racing and culminated in the film Fast & Furious . The series transitioned towards heists and spying with Fast Five and was followed by four sequels, with the most recent, F9, released in 2021. A tenth and eleventh film are planned, and the main films are collectively known as The Fast Saga. Shortly after the premiere of The Fast and the Furious 6, Paul Walker was tragically killed in a car accident.
The actor, who was in the midst of filming Furious 7, posthumously appeared in the film. There's even a subtle nod at the end of F9 that the O'Connor character might return in future iterations. Apparently, when The Fast and the Furious was originally pitched to Universal, the studio agreed to produce the film as long as Olyphant was cast as the lead role of Dom Toretto. Olyphant turned the role down, which brought the filmmakers to their backup, Vin Diesel. Diesel took the reins of the franchise and has appeared in almost every film since. Producer Neal Moritz is curious how things would have gone with Olyphant at the helm, but billions of dollars have convinced him the Diesel was the right fit for the role.
On the crew side, the film is being directed by Justin Lin, a veteran of the Fast & Furious series. The movie's other crew members are currently unknown, as F9 scribe Daniel Casey will not be returning for the tenth and eleventh films. The third installment in the Fast and Furious franchise sees an American teenager who rises quickly in the world of drift racing in Tokyo.
