Fast and Furious 6 (May 24, 2013)

[tyven]

Just bought a 96 Dodge Neon. Going to supe it up and go see this movie.

fuck. yes.

[Dantrag]

The last one was a good movie, hoping they can actually make F5 good with an actual story line. Where as 1 2 3 and TD sucked as far as story. And TD was a joke with the drifting scene on the "ramp" of the interstate.... was so horrible.

[tyven]

nigga you are crazy. TD had motherfucking Bow Wow

[Headspace]

nigga you are crazy. TD had motherfucking Bow Wow

AND HAN

K-ROLD

[Flarega]

And the best script of all time!

Spoiler: show

http://pushermagazine.com/wp-content...TokyoDrift.jpg

We race.

Edit: spoiler for hueg

[Kainos]

YESSSSSSSSSSS. They can make a new movie every year for all I care, never gets old. F&F series >>>

[6souls]

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It looks like the days of street racing are coming to an end in the Fast and Furious franchise. According to Deadline, Adam Fogelson and co-chairman Donna Langley are planning a bold and provocative move on their highly lucrative franchise. This type of shift has not been pulled off and is crazy enough that it may work. Earlier we reported that Chris Morgan (screenwriter of Fast Five as well as The Fast And The Furious 3: Tokyo Drift, and Fast & Furious 4) had been hired to write the script for the sixth installment as part of his new production deal at the studio. This shift actually makes a lot of sense seeing as how the story of Fast Five sets up a Fast Six whose plot revolves around a major robbery. Universal's goal is to transform the street-racing franchise into a series of heist films.

Despite the success that the studio had with bringing back the cast for Fast and Furious under Marc Shmuger and co-chairman David Linde there is interest in adapting the franchise even further for it's livelihood on the whole. Fogelson and Langley wondered how long would or could the franchise last as is when they took over. In a recent interview Fogelson stated, "The question putting Fast Five and Fast Six together for us was: Can we take it out of being a pure car culture movie and into being a true action franchise in the spirit of those great heist films made 10 or 15 years ago?"

The overall concensus at the studio was that the next installments had to be less about street racing and about more inclusive subject matter. Fogelson went on to say:

"We've heard so many people say, 'I've never seen one, and I've never wanted to see one,' about the Fast franchise. So if these movies were still about street racing, there was probably a ceiling on how many people would buy tickets. We wanted to see if we could raise it out of about racing and make car driving ability just a part of the movie, like those great chases in The French Connection, The Bourne Identity, The Italian Job."

Fogelson shared he and Dodge's plans:

"Our strategy behind one of the biggest bets we've ever made is that the business has gone so far towards CG action every weekend, that we really believe creating a movie with real action and real cars will be amazing stuff to people excited by seeing something real."

Fogelson consideres Fast Five "the transitional movie." The franchise has moved from Mexico and then Tokyo and now to Rio De Janeiro. The next bit of information may contain SPOILERS SO BEWARE!

"Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) plays a federal agent assigned to track down Paul Walker and the rest of the Fast team who sprung Vin Diesel from police custody. Now all the Fastguys are on the run, and will commit a crime, and Rock is right behind them. This movie again puts together most of the original cast plus some cast members from all of the prior four films. Fogelson says Johnson came to Universal seeking to become part of the franchise, and not only is he pivotal to the plot in Fast Fivepitted against Vin, but he also wants to appear in and be integral to the action in Fast Six."

Fogelson went on to talk about the transition the franchise has undergone:

"This franchise has undergone more interesting twists and turns than any franchise I know of. The first one was exciting because of the multi-cultural and multi-ethnic makeup of the cast, which drew over-indexes among Hispanics and Asians and African-American audiences. Then Vin went off doing other stuff, but the sequel still managed a $50M opening and became a mega-hit. Then Tokyo Drift was done for a lower price and it did far better internationally and less domestic. Most studios would have considered the franchise finished.

"But we went and got Vin to do a cameo. That last scene when audiences saw him was explosive. All of us sitting in that test screening in Chatsworth realized the franchise wasn't over. We said, 'Let's get started.' And so bringing in the original cast was a mega-win. So we went off to get the original players and the fourth pic opened to a humongous $71M. That was the first to open the first weekend in April. Before then, Fast has always always been a summer film. But now we had the highest opening weekend ever in April."

Universal is expecting to make $50 to $60 million opening weekend for Fast Five, which is actually a low ball number. It opens on April 29th in the US and has already exceeded expectations overseas, where it's opened in a few territories already, but sequels do best internationally. Fogelson went on to mention the domestic test screenings:

"Based on screenings, this is the highest-testing movie in the franchise so far. But we've absolutely left perfect room for where we want to go with this franchise. I don't want to give away too much, but there are a lot of surprises at the end of Fast Five involving one of the biggest characters of the previous movies which will set up the franchise now as a series of heist action films."

http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/4/26...st-action.html
http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/fast...-heist-action/

[6souls]

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After bringing in $86.6 million dollars this weekend of course we are going to see a sequel to Fast Five! Hell, Universal Pictures was already planning for it. Fast Five was a lead-in to what will now become a series of heist films. Also if you stayed through the films credits then you saw there plans to propel the story forward. Lin said in a statement,

After this big weekend, we're going forward, It's pretty much 100%. It's going to happen. At five, we're just hitting our stride,. We're growing. People want to continue this journey.

http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/5/3/...to-happen.html
http://content.usatoday.com/communit...-sixth-film-/1

[ZarakiKujata]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh XXX was a flop??? WHY THE FUCK DID THEY MAKE A SEQUEL WITH ICE CUBE THEN???

Also Vin Diesel made that indie movie about the mob that was pretty funny

[Kalima]

"We've heard so many people say, 'I've never seen one, and I've never wanted to see one,' about the Fast franchise. So if these movies were still about street racing, there was probably a ceiling on how many people would buy tickets.

Yeah....THAT'S the problem. People are turned off by street racing. Not the horrible, horrible acting. Not the impossible physics. Not the story that no one cares about. It's the street racing folks...

[Xno Kappa]

Just bought a 96 Dodge Neon. Going to supe it up and go see this movie.

Nigga please, it's all about the Chargers now!

brb, robbing a 10ton safe.

[GRT]

http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/5/3/...to-happen.html
http://content.usatoday.com/communit...-sixth-film-/1

speaking of the post-credit scene, I still don't know why that Asian guy (what's his name again?) is alive, thought he died in Tokyo Drift?

not that I care all that much about the plot in these kind of movies, just wondering

[Deejay]

storyline goes 1 - 2 - 4 - 5 - (6) - 3

[Pikarya]

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[6souls]

In a recent interview with Movie Hole Lin gave an update on each of these film projects, and here's what he had to say about Fast Six and actor Lucas Black who starred in the third film Tokyo Drift. It looks like there's a chance he could return, which would be awesome. He one of my favorite characters in the franchise.

I love his character; that’s a little bit tough [though] because of the time line [Tokyo Drift being set after the events of these last two Fast movies]. We’re always looking [for a way to include him]. And I think with the way this franchise is going too, is that it is going to expand in a big way if people are going to embrace Fast Six. So, a lot of these characters, they’re going to live. They live in this universe and I believe that the ones that people… I mean a lot of people have always said, “Where’s Lucas Black? Where’s Lucas Black?” And he’s still in this universe, you know. And I don’t think he’s [disappeared] by any means.

http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/7/23...-fast-six.html
http://www.moviehole.net/

[Salodin]

They need to just come out and disown tokyo drift and stop worrying about the continuity of it all.

[6souls]

Fast Five will arrive on Blu-ray soon and is sure to add to the $600 million worldwide box office take. Justin Lin is the reason that this franchise is alive and running on all cylinders, so I am glad to know that he will be directing the sixth installment tentatively titled Fast Six. The story is said to be moving into the heist movie genre, which makes sense from the last film and the cool Easter egg after the credits. In a recent interview, Lin revealed that "as he wrapped up production on the last film, he already had fully developed sequences" for the film and talked about what may be in store for the characters.

As you hopefully know by now, the post-credits scene had both Eva Mendes and suprisingly Michelle Rodriguez, Here is what Lin had to say when asked how much of the Easter egg was just done for fun or was actually staging for the story of the next film:

Vin [Diesel] and I were talking about it way back in the fourth one. The thing about Vin is that usually if I go meet him in LA or New York or wherever, I kind of have to block out like six to eight hours every time we sit down, because we end up talking about stuff that's not even about the film—which I love. So it's kind of cool because we had talked about that for a very long time, about how if we were fortunate enough we were going to build this into a trilogy starting with the fourth one. He was going to bring back everybody because ultimately what I love about the franchise is that it's about this construct of this family in a very untraditional sense. So to be able to bring everybody back, that was all pre-planned.

I think the Michelle [Rodriguez] of it all, we'd been talking about that, but our big thing was how to ultimately present that to the audience. And I think that we always knew that the Michelle element was something we had kind of planted the seed for, but I think the presentation of it was something Vin and I had a lot of discussions about. But ultimately, while we were shootingFast Five, I loved seeing all of these characters come back, and the one character that I really didn't get to see was Eva Mendes' character. And I felt like she was part of the family, and I felt like she was the best person to be able to do it—you know, the audience was going to sit all of the way through to the end, and I thought her and Hobbs [Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson] seemed like a good pair. They were the two characters that were able to bring this news. So that came through more kind of talking and discovering, but I knew I wanted to bring everybody back. But I didn't know how much fun and how exciting it was until we were back on set. But in regards to Letty, that's something that we had always had in our back pocket.

Lin went on to talk about how far along they are on developing a story for Fast Six and if there was any inspiration taken from fan response to the last film:

To answer the last part of your question, that's something that I tried to avoid for sure. Because if I'm trying to figure out the formula of what people like, I would be chasing something that I don't understand. My whole thing is about respecting the audience and respecting the evolution of these characters—and they've grown and now the family is back together. And in many ways, some of the big pieces of Fast Six have already been discussed: I already have a 12-minute sequence done. I did it just as an exercise. I had it done before we were finished withFast Five, actually. So I wanted to do that just to have it there and to be honest with you, I didn't know if I was going to do a Fast Six. I didn't know if people were going to embrace Fast Five and we were going to have an opportunity. But I felt like I really wanted to make sure that the last scene, which I had talked to Vin about countless times—I wanted to make sure that was done. So actually I boarded it, I pre-vised it, and I cut it. So it's funny, when we were in Atlanta shooting it, I already had the end sequence to Fast Six done. And that was what I wanted to work towards.

Now I'm talking to Chris [Morgan, the writer of the last three films], we're talking to everybody, and I'm re-engaging, but it's cool because it's not about, "Hey, people want to see another one-what are we going to do?" Now it's like, "wow, people want to see another one-and we have a plan." So it's been a really great. I've just been sitting down with Chris and we're getting together later today, and it's much more fun when you kind of know where you're going to go. That kind of discourse is something I enjoy much more than, "Oh my God—what are we going to do?" So I think in a way, it's a perfect relationship of the audience embracing it and wanting another one-and us being prepared that if that happens, we know where to go.

http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/8/12...ready-for.html
http://www.boxofficemagazine.com/art...-sequence-done

[6souls]

Fast Five recharged the Fast & Furious franchise to the tune of $624 million worldwide, so it makes sense for Universal to be eager to get the already announced sixth film underway. The LA Times reports that the studio is so eager, that it is considering shooting Fast 6 and Fast 7 back-to-back with a single story connecting the two films.

Chris Morgan and Justin Lin are currently developing story ideas. They have both worked on the last three films, which have progressively gotten better. Lin is set to return for both films, with Fast 6 already slated for a May 24, 2013. Universal may have to push the release date back as a result of the consecutive shooting schedule. This date change would allow for Universal to release the seventh film in theaters sooner.

Earlier this week, Paramount announced it may shoot the fourth and fifth Transformers films back to back. Back-to-back shooting schedules have worked well for Disney with Pirates of the Caribbean. Peter Jackson shot all three Lord of the Rings films at once and plans to film the Hobbit in the same manner. This strategy allows studios to actually save money and locks-in the cast and crew. The downside is that Universal would have already spent money on the seventh film without knowing how Fast 6 will perform. I highly doubt that will be an issue, the last three films gotten bigger and better. I am in love with the plans for the franchise to switch gears from racing to heist movie.

http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/10/2...k-to-back.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movi...-together.html

[tyven]

DEAR GOD YES

[Salodin]

...i was excited about this until i read about the 4th and 5th transformer movies...