Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez
Director: James Wan
Running Time: 131 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: Spetember 7th 2015 (UK)
Director: James Wan
Running Time: 131 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: Spetember 7th 2015 (UK)
If you’d told me a year ago that one of the Fast & Furious movies would make $1.5 billion at the box office and become the fifth highest grossing movie of all time, I would have laughed directly in your face. However, I’d be eating humble pie now, as that’s just what Fast & Furious 7 has done, helped by a record-breaking run in China.
I still have no idea why it did so well – not because it’s a dreadful movie, but simply because there’s it’s tough to understand why it was so stunningly successful. But then, I suppose it’s like McDonald’s – nobody would class it as genuinely great food, but it’s incredibly popular because it’s tasty and you know exactly what you’re going to get. [Read more…]
It’s only a few weeks until Fast & Furious 7 (which is just Furious 7 in the US) makes it bid to be the first massive hit of the summer season (yes, early April isn’t summer, but the blockbuster season starts earlier and earlier every year), Now to get us excited an extended look has been released.
It’s not often they include the moment where a franchise may have completely jumped the shark in a trailer, but they may have done so with the Super Bowl spot for Fast & Furious 7 (known simply as Furious 7 in the US).
When Paul Walker tragically died last November during a Thanksgiving break on the Fast & Furious 7 shoot, Universal Pictures was understandably forced to indefinitely shut down production on the movie.
After the tragic death of Paul Walker, it was quickly announced that Fast & Furious 7 would be delayed, although there were conflicting reports over whether the film would restart from scratch and remove Walker’s character, or if they would find some way to incorporate him, even though he hadn’t completed his scenes.
Following the death of Paul Walker Universal Studios has had some difficult decisions to make about Fast & Furious. The movie was on a production break when Walker died, and there were also questions about whether it was appropriate if Walker does remain in the movie, whether his last film should be about racing fact cars.
When The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift was released in 2006, it seemed like Lucas Black was poised to take over the franchise. But when Paul Walker and Vin Diesel’s career didn’t take off quite as they’d hoped, they returned for the fourth film in the series and that was the last we’ve seen of Black’s Sean Boswell.