On The Subject: Of Fast & Furious 6

We continue our look at the Fast and furious franchise as Hobbs gets Dom to reassemble the team for its biggest adventure yet! find out just what happens and what we think about the sixth film in the series on this episode!

People come back from the dead the film ends 3 times, sexy James Bond like villain and we get the worlds longest run what in some high octane action!

MOVIE COMPARISON

  • The Fast and Furious- Point Break

  • 2 Fast 2 Furious-

  • Tokyo Drift- Karate Kid meets Heist movie

  • Fast and Furious (4)- Nothing

  • Fast Five- The Fugitive

  • Fast & Furious 6- Iron Man/ James Bond

Fast and Furious TIMELINE

  • The Fast and The Furious

  • Turbo Charged Prelude (short)

  • 2 Fast 2 Furious

  • Los Bandeleros (short)

    • Works with Han and Dom/Letty romance

  • Fast & Furious (4th)

    • Letty dies (not really)

  • Fast 5

    • Learn that Letty is alive

  • Fast & Furious 6

  • Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift

    • Han heads to Japan after Giselle's death

  • Furious 7

  • The Fate of the Furious (8th)

  • Hobbs and Shaw

Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries: Dominic unexpectedly gets convoluted also facing his presumed deceased girlfriend, Letty.

Director: Justin Lin

Writers: Chris Morgan, Gary Scott Thompson (characters)

Stars: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released May 24th 2013

Budget: $160 million

Domestic: $239 million

Foreign: $550 million

Cumulative: $788.6 million

Opening Weekend: $97 million

Opened #1 run 15 weeks

  • #2 The Hangover Part III

  • #3 Stark Trek Into Darkness

  • #4 Epic

  • #5 Iron Man 3 (May 3rd)

TAGLINES

  • All roads lead to this

  • They have one chance to save us all (star trek)

Facts

  • The 13 minute runway chase at the end of the film would make the runway estimated to be approximately 18 miles long.

    • Qamdo Bamda Airport in China has the longest pavedrunway in the world at 18,045 feet (approx 3 miles). The long runway is a necessary feature of the airport given the high altitude (5280ft in a mile)