The Fast and Furious franchise is 16 years old storied history. With so many characters and amazing stunts, there’s plenty you probably don’t know about the series.
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- The Fast and Furious film series was inspired by an article in 1998, street racing, “Racer X,” which chronicled the story of Rafael Racer X Estevez and illegal street-racing in New York.
- Vin Diesel turned down $20 million and stayed out of “2 Fast 2 Furious” to make “ Riddick movie instead.
- The scene at the end of the movie, in which there were Paul Walker and Vin Diesel just barely beat a speeding train while racing was shot twice.
- The article detailed the New York street racing scene.
- In this franchise, there were more than 1,500 actual car enthusiasts in the Race Wars scene.
- The fifth and sixth part of the series was designed as an internal trilogy.
- The series takes some inspiration seen in “Point Break” movie, in this movie FBI agent goes undercover to infiltrate a group of surfer bank robbers.
- The franchise is 16 years old and has a long and storied history.
- Han Seoul-Oh’s death in the third film means the fast and furious 7 is a direct sequel to the movie: Tokyo Drift and four through six are prequels.
- Denzel Washington turned down an unspecified a part in fast and furious 7.
- Paul Walker’s death in “Furious 7” had to get a little creative. Producers were able to use CGI and deleted scenes from Fast Five movie and also got some help from Walker’s brothers to complete the movie.
- Paul Walker’s brothers took up the mantle of Brian O’Conner to finish the series
