Fast & Furious 6

Vorlage:Infobox film Fast & Furious 6 (alternatively known as Fast Six or Furious Six) is a 2013 action film written by Chris Morgan and directed by Justin Lin. It is the sixth installment in the Fast and the Furious film series. The film stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Sung Kang, Chris Bridges, Luke Evans, Gina Carano, and John Ortiz. Fast & Furious 6 follows a professional criminal gang led by Dominic Toretto (Diesel) who have retired following their successful heist in Fast Five (2011), but remain wanted fugitives. U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent Luke Hobbs (Johnson) offers to clear the group's criminal records and allow them to return home in exchange for helping him to take down a skilled mercenary organization led by Owen Shaw (Evans) and his second in command, Dominic's presumed-dead lover Letty Ortiz (Rodriguez).

Fast & Furious 6 was in development by February 2010 as the first film in the series to move away from the underground car-racing theme of the series' previous films which was considered to have placed a barrier on audience numbers. Pre-production had begun by April 2011, and principal photography began in London, England in July 2012. Filming locations also included the Canary Islands, Glasgow, and Los Angeles. The film was first released in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2013, followed by an international release on May 24, 2013.

Plot

Following the events of Fast Five, Brian O'Conner and Mia Toretto's son has been born, Dominic Toretto and Elena Neves are now together, and the rest of the crew have been living extravagantly. Though they live peacefully with all their wealth, they can't return to the United States because of their international criminal statuses and their past records. Meanwhile, Agent Luke Hobbs and his new partner Riley investigate the destruction of a Russian military convoy and conclude that a team led by former SAS officer Owen Shaw was responsible. Tracking down Dominic, Hobbs asks him to help take down Shaw, and shows him a recent photo of the presumably dead Letty, who is part of Shaw's team, to persuade him. Dominic agrees and assembles his crew, who accept the task in return for full pardons from the US upon successful completion.

After the capture of one of Shaw's men, Hobbs and his police team wiretap and order him to identify Shaw in Shaw's hideout. When Shaw is found and begins to be cornered, he drives out of the building in a custom vehicle and detonates the area. However, Dominic, Brian, Roman, Tej, Han, and Gisele pursue Shaw and his team, who were at a nearby Interpol location, and a high-speed chase ensues. Shaw and most of his team get away, but Dominic manages to follow and stop Letty, who unhesitatingly shoots Dominic and drives away. After recovering, Hobbs and Riley inform Dominic and his team about Shaw and his plan of stealing a computer chip that can shut down power, capable of being sold to terrorists for millions. At another hideout, Shaw and his team learn of Dominic and his relationship with Letty, who is revealed to have amnesia from her accident in Fast & Furious.

Roman, Han, Gisele, and Riley confront a subordinate of Shaw, who calls Shaw's team to notify his capture. They soon arrive, and a firearm exchange arises, with some of Shaw's men killed. During the fight the subordinate of Shaw mentions Braga by name. The fight eventually ends up in a public subway station, where Han, Roman, and Riley get outfought. In order to track down Shaw, Brian goes to a prison in the United States to talk to Arturo Braga about his relationship with Shaw and where he could possibly be. Braga tells Brian that one can only get near Shaw if he allows it; he then explains how Letty survived the explosion of her accident, and that she was taken in by Shaw after he learned that she did not remember anything. Afterwards, Braga, with two men, tries to kill Brian, but Brian retaliates and survives. Dominic later learns of a local street racing competition that Letty would participate in. The two race through the streets of London, but there is no clear winner. In the aftermath, Dominic approaches Letty and tries to convince her that, though she does not remember anything, she has not changed, and gives her her cross necklace. When she drives off, Shaw comes and offers Dominic to walk away from everything, or else face consequences, but Dominic declines.

With Tej's help, Dominic and his team trace Shaw's next attack to a NATO military base in Spain. Shaw and his men steal the computer chip at the base and manage to seize a tank, as Dominic and his team chase them on the highway. The chase ends on a bridge where Dominic risks his life saving Letty from the fall into water hundreds of feet below, as well as the capture of Shaw and his men. When Shaw is arrested and confronted by the police, he reveals to Dominic that Mia had been kidnapped, and that he would only let her go if they released him and his team. Dominic reluctantly agrees, and Shaw and his team, as well as Riley, drive away to an airport, where a large aircraft awaits. However, Dominic and his team follow them: Dominic, Letty, and Hobbs get on the aircraft to stop Shaw and get Mia, who is on the aircraft, while Han, Gisele, Roman, Tej, and Brian stay on ground level to stop the aircraft from flying away, with Gisele sacrificing herself to save Han in one particular fight. Mia, Hobbs, and Letty manage to get off, but Dominic continues to fight Shaw, and tries to get the computer chip. After taking much damage, the aircraft explodes, but Dominic survives and walks away with the computer chip.

In the aftermath, Dominic and his team return to the United States, and are having a "family" lunch. Letty thanks Elena for watching after Dominic, and Elena leaves, telling Dominic that the Federal Police of Brazil is her family. Dominic then asks Letty if the gathering felt familiar, to which she answers no, but that it feels like home.

In a post-credits scene, the death of Han from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is shown again: in a race, Han is hit by an oncoming car. As he walks away from the scene, the driver (Jason Statham) of the car triggers the subsequent explosion that kills Han and calls Dominic, leaving a message, revealing himself as Ian Shaw, Owen Shaw's older brother.

Cast

• Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto: A street racer and fugitive.
• Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner: A former FBI agent turned criminal. He is in a relationship with Mia Toretto.
• Dwayne Johnson as Luke Hobbs: A Diplomatic Security Service agent.
• Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto: Dominic's sister and the girlfriend of Brian O'Conner.
• Tyrese Gibson as Roman Pearce: Brian's childhood friend.
• Michelle Rodriguez as Letty Ortiz: Dominic's former girlfriend who was believed to be dead. Suffering from amnesia, she now works for Shaw.
• Sung Kang as Han Seoul-Oh: A street racer and member of Dominic's crew.
• Chris Bridges as Tej Parker: Brian's and Roman's friend.
• Luke Evans as Owen Shaw: A former SAS Major now leading a heist gang.
• Gina Carano as Riley: A member of Hobbs' team.
• John Ortiz as Arturo Braga: A former Shaw henchman.
• Gal Gadot as Gisele Yashar: A former Mossad agent turned professional criminal.
• Joe Taslim as Jah: A cold blooded killer who fights using martial arts and parkour.
• Clara Paget as Vegh: The character is described as a gun-slinging action woman.
• Elsa Pataky as Elena Neves.
• Rita Ora portrays the head girl of a London racing crew.
• Shea Whigham as Agent Stasiak.
• Jason Statham as Ian Shaw, Owen Shaw's older brother in the post-credits scene

Production

Development

In February 2010, Diesel confirmed that production of Fast Five was commencing and also announced that a sixth installment was being planned. In January 2011, producer Neal H. Moritz said more:

In Vin and my mind we already know what the sixth movie is, we’ve already been talking about it. Vin and I have had numerous conversations about what that might be. And we’re starting to get serious about it right now. We just finished [Fast Five] like 4 or 5 weeks ago and we just needed a break, and now we’re gonna start focusing on that.

In April 2011 it was confirmed that Chris Morgan had already begun work on a script for a potential sixth film at the behest of Universal Studios. It was also confirmed that Universal intended to transform the series from street-racing action into a series of heist films with car chases in the vein of The Italian Job (1969) and The French Connection (1971), with Fast Five as the transitional movie. Universal chairman Adam Fogelson said:

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?

Fogelson said that the racing aspect had put a "ceiling" on the number of people willing to see films in the series, and that, by turning it into a series where car driving ability is just one aspect of the film, he hoped to increase the series' audience. On Johnson's character, Fogelson added "[Johnson] also wants to appear in and be integral to the action in Fast Six."

On June 24, 2011, Universal Pictures announced that the anticipated sequel is scheduled for release on May 24, 2013. Moritz and Diesel are to return as producers and Lin returns to direct. In an interview with Box Office, Lin revealed that he had, after discussions with Diesel, storyboarded, previsualized and edited a twelve-minute finale for Fast Six before filming was completed on Fast Five. Lin said he shot the footage as he was unsure at the time if there would be a sequel or if he would be able to direct it, but he wanted to have input on how any sequel would end. On October 21, 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported that Universal was considering filming two sequels—Fast Six and Fast Seven—back to back with a single story running through both films; both written by Morgan and directed by Lin. On December 20, 2011, Diesel confirmed that Fast Six would be split into two parts, with writing for the two films occurring simultaneously. On the decision, Diesel said:

We have to pay off this story, we have to service all of these character relationships, and when we started mapping all that out it just went beyond 110 pages...The studio said, 'You can't fit all that story in one damn movie!'

On April 23, 2012, it was announced that mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano was in negotiations to play a member of Hobbs' team. On May 1, 2012, Michelle Rodriguez was confirmed to be reprising her role as Letty Ortiz, and it was announced that Welsh actor Luke Evans had been offered a role as a villain. Evans was confirmed to join the cast on May 9, 2012, portraying the leader of a heist gang competing with Diesel's crew over the same heist job. On July 27, 2012, Joe Taslim was confirmed to star as the villain Jah. On February 15, 2012, Johnson confirmed that Fast Six would begin filming in May 2012, with some of the production to take place in the United Kingdom and Germany. Johnson stated that the two intended sequels would no longer be filmed simultaneously because of weather issues in filming locations, and that production on Fast Seven would only begin after the completion of Fast Six. However, filming did not officially begin until July 30, 2012. In February 2013, it was confirmed that the film would be titled Fast & Furious 6.

Principal photography

Filming began on July 30, 2012, in London, England, and Shepperton Studios in Surrey, part of the Pinewood Studios group. While Fast & Furious 6 became only the third production to be allowed to film in Piccadilly Circus (a scene involving Diesel and Rodriguez drag racing), Lin was unable to obtain permission to shoot an elaborate action sequence there involving an exploding oil tanker, and so a replica of the landmark was built at Shepperton. The production were given only 2 minutes every hour to shut down the area for filming. The London shoot including filming on Lambeth Bridge. On October 11, 2012, Walker suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury during a stunt, requiring the production to film around his scenes until he recovered. A scene involving a plane crash began filming at RAF Bovingdon, Hertfordshire on October 30, 2012 and was scheduled to conclude on November 9. Filming for a car chase scene took place on Dale Street in Liverpool City Centre, and the Queensway Tunnel in the nearby town of Birkenhead over four days in November 2012. Two days of filming were spent at HM Treasury's Government Offices Great George Street, which served as a nightclub.

Shooting also occurred on Spain's Canary Islands including the island of Tenerife. Filming had been intended to take place in Marseille, France, but was relocated to the islands to take advantage of a larger tax rebate (38%) that was estimated to lower filming costs by $20 million.

Stunt and car chase scenes began filming on location in Glasgow, Scotland on August 29, 2012, and were scheduled to conclude on September 16, 2012. The shoot took place entirely at night and involved approximately 250 crew, but none of the central cast. Sets were built on site for the scenes including a large car showroom. Filming was scheduled to take place at the former Royal Air Force base RAF Bentwaters in late August 2012 until early September 2012. Filming also took place in Echo Park, Los Angeles beginning on December 1, 2012. The shoot returned the series to the filming location of the original The Fast and the Furious, and required the garage setting of that film to be rebuilt by carpenters. By December 17, 2012, it was reported that filming had concluded. Post-production was heavily condensed; by March 2013, Lin was attempting to complete approximately 18 months worth of post-production in a 12 week period. Lin was aided by five film editors, specialist teams focused on visual effects and color timing, and sound mixers that required two movie-theater-sized stages alone.

Stunts

The scene featuring Diesel smashing his car through the nose of a Soviet-era cargo aircraft during takeoff was conceived by Lin while producing Fast & Furious in 2009. At the time, the stunt was too expensive to film and did not fit into that film's story, but Lin commissioned digital pre-visualization artists to develop a mock-up of the idea. He attempted to revive the concept for Fast Five but the technology available proved insufficient and it still did not organically fit into the story. A scene involving Evans' character commandeering a tank was originally intended to use CGI to portray the vehicle crushing cars along a Spanish highway, but the final scene used practical effects as the tank really runs over approximately 250 cars. For Owen Shaw's Flip Car, Lin tasked the film's vehicle designer with developing a car capable of driving head first into moving vehicles and flipping them into the air. McCarthy and his team designed a fully functional, low to the ground, formula one style car with a ramp on its front that allowed it to catapult other cars into the air while keeping the Flip Car driver safe.

Marketing

The film's first trailer was released during the 2013 Super Bowl on February 3. Among the six film trailers that launched at the event, Fast & Furious 6 generated widespread attention on social media, more than the other films (including Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness) combined according to data collection agency Fizziology. The extended version of the trailer had been viewed over 16 million times by February 17. The trailers success was partially attributed to the film's stars promoting the trailer on their personal social networks. The The Fast and the Furious series marketing attempted to cultivate an online fan base which was also considered to have helped promote the film; the filmmakers responded to fan interaction, conducted an online poll to decide the title of Fast & Furious 6, brought back the character of Letty Ortiz based on fan feedback and encouraged fans to document the film's production with unofficial photos. Universal marketing co-president Michael Moses said: "We’re trying to remove the studio filter as much as possible, which is a little scary because you’re ceding control... But it makes for more authentic and organic interaction with fans." The Super Bowl trailer, titled "Breathe", won two Golden Trailer Awards for Best Action TV Spot and Best Summer Blockbuster 2013 TV Spot, and the marketing campaign received a further three nominations: Summer 2013 Blockbuster Trailer and Best Sound Editing for the "Trailer" trailer, and Best Teaser Poster. A 15-piece clothing line was also produced in partnership with Guess, including T-shirts, jackets, caps and watches.

Continuing their partnership from Fast Five, the Facebook game Car Town by Cie Games and the theater chain Regal Entertainment Group (REG) collaborated with Universal in a cross-media marketing promotion. Car Town allowed players to view the trailer for the film in an REG-branded, in-game drive-in theater. The game also featured missions and locations based on the plot of the film, and allowing players to join forces with Fast & Furious 6 characters. REG offered players of Car Town the ability to purchase tickets in-game via Fandango for films at REG theaters. By buying these tickets in-game, players were given promotional codes which in turn allowed them to unlock a virtual 2013 Dodge Charger SRT8.

Release

The premiere of Fast & Furious 6 took place on May 7, 2013, at the Empire cinema in Leicester Square, London. The film is scheduled for wide release in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2013, followed by a North American release on May 24.

Critical reception

Fast & Furious 6 was generally considered to effectively mix absurd action scenes and outrageous stunts with a predictable but enjoyable plot and character dialog. Empires Owen Williams noted that the plot lacked the same surprise as Fast Five without Johnson's antagonist Hobbs, and suggested that the large cast of returning characters had made Evans' Owen Shaw unable to make an impression as the new villain. Scenes of dialog and character progression were criticized as slow. Evans' Owen Shaw was repeatedly singled out as a refreshing and charismatic addition to the cast, though others described the character as generic. The film's tone was generally well received for mixing self-conscious spectacle with the central characters' teamwork, bonding and familial spirit. IndieWire said that the film forsakes realistic set-pieces (comparing it to the 2012 superhero film The Avengers), which undermined any attempts at creating tension.

Lin's direction of the action set-pieces was described as lavish and exquisite. The cinematography received a mixed response. Varietys Scott Foundas appreciated the attention to spatial geography and complicated, single, continuous shots which were compared to the best of James Bond and Impossible films, and Digital Spys Ben Rawson-Jones said that the nocturnal races in London made excellent use of the environment. The Hollywood Reporters Todd McCarthy considered that the action scenes were cut too fast, failed to provide a sense of speed for the vehicles and were mired by poor angles and nocturnal settings that obscured the view.

So far, the film has a 77% "fresh" rating from Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 49/100 "mixed or average" rating from Metacritic.

Music

Lucas Vidal composed the musical score for Fast & Furious 6. A soundtrack album to the film will be released by Def Jam Recordings on May 21, 2013. It will feature many electronic and hip hop tracks, including songs by deadmau5, Ludacris, and many others.

Video game

A cooperative racing video game, titled Fast & Furious: Showdown, is scheduled for release on May 21, 2013. Developed by Firebrand Games and published by Activision for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Nintendo 3DS, the game's story ties into the events in Fast & Furious 6, including bridging the events between the story of the film and those of its predecessor Fast Five, as well as the story of other films in the franchise. A mobile game is being developed by Exploding Barrel Games and published by studio Kabam.

Sequel

On April 4, 2013, Lin announced that he would not return to direct a Fast & Furious 7, as the studio wanted to produce the film on an accelerated schedule for release in summer 2014 which would have required Lin to begin pre-production on the sequel while performing post-production on Fast & Furious 6 which he considered would affect the quality of the final product. Despite the usual two to three year gap between the previous installments, Universal chose to pursue a sequel quicker due to having fewer reliable franchises than its competitor studios. Also in April, James Wan was announced as the sequel's director, with Moritz returning to produce and Morgan returning to write the script, his fifth in the series. Diesel and Walker were also confirmed to return to star. Also in April, Johnson said that if Universal pursued the accelerated development of a seventh film, he would be unable to participate due to scheduling conflicts with filming on Hercules. On April 16, 2013, Diesel announced that the sequel would be released on July 11, 2014, with production scheduled to begin in August 2013. In May 2013, Diesel said that the sequel would feature Tokyo and the Middle East as locations.

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