{"id":952,"date":"2019-05-05T10:39:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T05:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=952"},"modified":"2019-05-03T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T11:08:07","slug":"10-fast-furious-franchise-facts-might-not-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/10-fast-furious-franchise-facts-might-not-know\/","title":{"rendered":"10 \u2018Fast and Furious\u2019 Franchise Facts You Might Not Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fast and Furious franchise is 16 years old storied history. With so many characters and amazing stunts, there&#8217;s plenty you probably don&#8217;t know about the series.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>The Fast and Furious film series was inspired by an article in 1998, street racing, \u201cRacer X,\u201d which chronicled the story of Rafael <strong>Racer X<\/strong>\u00a0Estevez and illegal street-racing in New York.<\/li>\n<li>Vin Diesel turned down $20 million and stayed out of \u201c2 Fast 2 Furious\u201d to make \u201c Riddick movie instead.<\/li>\n<li>The scene at the end of the movie, in which there were Paul Walker<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and Vin Diesel just barely beat a speeding train while racing was shot twice.\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"rBipU5SxFOM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DODGE CHARGER V.S. TOYOTA SUPRA\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rBipU5SxFOM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>The article detailed the New York street racing scene.<\/li>\n<li>In this franchise, there were more than 1,500 actual car enthusiasts in the<strong> Race Wars<\/strong> scene.<\/li>\n<li>The fifth and sixth part of the series was designed as an internal trilogy.<\/li>\n<li>The series takes some inspiration seen in &#8220;Point Break&#8221; movie, in this movie FBI agent goes undercover to infiltrate a group of surfer bank robbers.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-953\" src=\"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fast-and-the-furious.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fast-and-the-furious.jpg 615w, https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fast-and-the-furious-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>The franchise is 16 years old and has a long and storied history.<\/li>\n<li>Han Seoul-Oh\u2019s 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.<\/li>\n<li>Denzel<em> Washington turned down an unspecified a part in fast and furious 7.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Walker\u2019s<\/strong> death in \u201cFurious 7\u201d had to get a little creative. Producers were able to use CGI and deleted scenes from <strong>Fast Five<\/strong> movie and also got some help from Walker\u2019s brothers to complete the movie.<\/li>\n<li>Paul Walker&#8217;s brothers took up the mantle of Brian O&#8217;Conner to finish the series<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-958\" src=\"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/paul-walkers-brothers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/paul-walkers-brothers.jpg 350w, https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/paul-walkers-brothers-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/paul-walkers-brothers-294x420.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fast and Furious franchise is 16 years old storied history. With so many characters and amazing stunts, there&#8217;s plenty you probably don&#8217;t know about the series. The Fast and Furious film series was inspired by an article in 1998, street racing, \u201cRacer X,\u201d which chronicled the story of Rafael Racer X\u00a0Estevez and illegal street-racing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fast-and-the-furious-8.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-fm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4589,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/4589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}