Fast & Furious 6
Short description
After the events in Rio, Dominic Toretto, Brian O'Conner and their crew are wealthy but scattered across the globe, unable to return home because the law still wants them. Federal agent Luke Hobbs has been tracking a crew of mercenary drivers who have carried out jobs in a dozen countries, and he concludes that the only way to stop them is to beat them on the road. He offers Dominic and his people full pardons in exchange for reassembling the team in London and helping bring the gang down. The mission becomes personal for Dominic when he learns that Letty Ortiz, the woman he believed was dead, is working with the other side.
Justin Lin directed the film, his fifth entry in the series following Annapolis, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious and Fast Five. Chris Morgan wrote the screenplay, and Vin Diesel produced alongside Clayton Townsend and Neal H. Moritz. Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez and Tyrese Gibson lead a credited cast of 85, with 222 credited crew members.
The film had a budget of 160 million USD and took 789 million USD worldwide, a strong return for a franchise entry of its size. On IMDb it holds 7/10 from 438,000 votes, while on TMDB it has 6.8/10 from 11,368 votes, showing broad audience approval. A film critics' rating of 6.2/10 from 208 reviews places it below both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Several cars for the film were created at the Lucra Cars workshop located in California.
- Dennis McCarthy, responsible for the cars used in the film, said that they used "an entire fleet of BMW M5s" to film one scene. McCarthy also said: "Then we wrecked practically all of those cars while filming other scenes."
- Vin Diesel’s Dodge Daytona was custom-built. The car was reworked by McCarthy and his team from an old vehicle they initially purchased for $5,000.
- Jason Statham and David Tennant were considered for the villain role, which ultimately went to Luke Evans.
- No matter where the heroes are in London, they always drive past the same Route 4 double-decker bus.
- Hobbs states that the BMW M5 has a V8 engine. The current F10 version does, but the older E60 shown in the film has a naturally aspirated V10.
- Before the NATO base scene, Luke is on the phone and appears clean-shaven. In the following scene, he has a goatee again.
- The vending machine that Hobbs shoots at in the London scene contains chocolate bars found only in vending machines in the USA, not in the UK.
- In the scene where Dominic Toretto chases the plane, he didn't shift gears – he simply touched the automatic transmission box.
- Starting at 1:22:43 during the phone conversation, Hobbs is seen to be clean-shaven. In the scenes before and after this, he has heavy stubble.
- The scene at the end of the film with the plane landing and taking off, from its approach over the runway to the explosion, lasts about 12 minutes. Considering that the average takeoff and landing speed of an An-124 is about 240 km/h, the length of the runway the plane covers during the scene is approximately 48 km.
- In the scene before the Interpol office, as the criminals drive away, Jezel grabs a weapon and begins to run into the middle of the street, and to the right, a fire hydrant and a newspaper box are visible. Then the frame switches upwards, where a sniper is looking down at her, and it is clearly visible that she is standing almost in the middle of the road, and the fire hydrant and newspaper box are no longer there. In the next moment, Khan tackles Jezel, saving her from the sniper's bullets, and the fire hydrant and newspaper box "miraculously" reappear, behind which Jezel and Khan take cover from the sniper's fire.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
