They don’t have friends — they have circle of relatives. A lot has happened in the Fast and Furious universe since the franchise debuted, both onscreen and off.
Back in 2001, few audience can have imagined that the first access in the collection, The Fast and the Furious, would spawn even one sequel, let alone a multibillion-dollar franchise that incorporates an animated TV sequence and a theme park trip.
The original film used to be loosely in response to Ken Li’s “Racer X,” a Vibe mag article about unlawful side road racing in New York City. The overdue Paul Walker, then fairly unknown, starred as Brian O’Conner, a Los Angeles police officer sent to infiltrate a heist workforce led by way of Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel). Naturally, Brian involves respect Dom for his using talents and strict moral code, and via the end of the movie makes a decision to let him go unfastened.
While the movie racked up $40 million at the box office all the way through its opening weekend, critics weren't blown away. “The Fast and the Furious is Rebel Without a Cause and not using a cause,” the Washington Post wrote in June 2001. “The Young and the Restless with fuel fumes. The Quick and the Dead with skid marks.”
The overdue Roger Ebert, then again, used to be somewhat extra impressed via the movie’s bizarre blend of intense motion scenes and sincere bromance. “It doesn’t have a brain in its head, nevertheless it has some great chase scenes,” he wrote. “The Fast and the Furious is not an ideal movie, but it delivers what it promises to ship, and is aware of that a chase scene is supposed to be about one thing more than particular results.”
Diesel, then pursuing marquee stardom in XXX and The Chronicles of Riddick, didn't go back for 2003’s 2 Fast 2 Furious or 2006’s The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift, but via movie No. 4 — 2009’s Fast & Furious — he had observed the error of his tactics. (The actor did make a cameo in Tokyo Drift, but handiest after Universal agreed to give him the movie rights to the Riddick sequence.)
The California local now sees the franchise as his legacy, especially since Walker’s 2013 death in a car accident.
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“It’s no longer unusual that I’ll give a speech on set where I’ll say, ‘We’re making this franchise for those that are not with us,’ which is very real, and the implications of that are very heavy,” he told Men’s Health in June 2021. “‘But at the same time, we’re making the franchise for the people that aren’t born but.’ When you may have a novel point of view of creating a franchise that spans generations, , OK, all of us should be as brilliant as imaginable. We have to reach as top as we can. Because it can be more essential than just a film. More essential than two hours of escapism. There is also one thing more at play.”
Keep scrolling to have a look back at the whole thing that’s took place in The Fast Saga:
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