Episode 8: Fast and Furious

• The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift came out in 2006, Fast & Furious came out in 2009. So there was a 3 year gap between movie #3 and movie #4.

• The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift did have a theatrical release.

• In The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift actor Lucas Black plays high school student Sean Boswell. Let’s say Sean is a senior in high school at the time of the story, that makes him 18. Lucas Black was 24 years old at the time, playing an 18 year old. Not too crazy. When he shot his scenes for Furious 7, in 2015, he was now 33 years old, playing the same 18-19 year old. It shouldn’t work, but it plays just fine.

• Article on Vin Diesel appearing in FF3 in exchange for the rights to Riddick.

• The short film about Dom and Letty before the events of the 4th film is called “Los Bandoleros,” (written and directed by Vin Diesel) it can be found as a special feature on the DVD/Blu-ray for Fast & Furious. When Letty gets her memory back in Furious 7, we will discover that Dom and Letty got married during this “Los Bandoleros” time period – before the start of Fast & Furious.

• The short film detailing Brian O’Conner’s time between the first and second film is called “Turbo Charged Prelude to 2 Fast 2 Furious” and can be found as a special feature on the DVD for 2 Fast 2 Furious. Check it out

• The release timeline of the Fast & Furious films:

  • The Fast and the Furious (2001)

  • Turbo Charged Prelude to 2 Fast 2 Furious [short film] (2003)

  • 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

  • Los Bandoleros [short film] (2009)

  • Fast & Furious (2009)

  • Fast Five (2011)

  • Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

  • Furious 7 (2015)

  • The Fate of the Furious (2017)

• The timeline of the narrative story in these films:

  • The Fast and the Furious

  • Turbo Charged Prelude to 2 Fast 2 Furious [short film]

  • 2 Fast 2 Furious

  • Los Bandoleros [short film]

  • Fast & Furious

  • Fast Five

  • Fast & Furious 6

  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

  • Furious 7

  • The Fate of the Furious

• F8 was not out at the time of this episode’s recording, but it is now

• Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson re: the spin-off movie with Hobbs and Shaw

• Article re: Paul Walker’s passing.

• Point Break vs. The Fast & The Furious

• 24 Reasons Point Break & The Fast and the Furious Are Different

• Brian comes back to life selecting cars in Fast & Furious

• Brian tries to bring Dom back to life

• Article re: the difficulty of finishing Furious 7 after Paul Walker’s passing.