Head out on the highway with Tom Hardy playing the role originated by Mel Gibson. Action from start to finish in a petroleum-crazed world.
This film was shot in sequence (which is rare for movie production) and the editor, Margaret Sixel, had roughly 470 hours of footage to edit. Watching all of the footage took Sixel approximately three months.
The flame-shooting guitar in the movie was said to weigh 132 pounds and was an actual functioning flame-thrower using gas as fuel. The control to shoot the flames was the whammy bar on the guitar.
#21: “The Fast and the Furious” (2001)
(Photo Credit: Universal Pictures)
The first in the long-running, very successful F&F series, with semi-truck hijackers and street racing in New York City, which is hardly conducive to such activity given its traffic.
Two of the featured actors, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster, never had a driver’s license or permit before the production of the film.
Filmmakers requested the home-owners of the homes featured in the background of the film to re-paint their houses with muted colors to make the colorful cars pop during filming.
