Fate of the Furious is a 2017, film directed by F. Gary Gray. It is a direct sequel to Fast 7 (2015), with characters and story arcs carrying over onto this film. The movie introduces us to what will ultimately be a tetralogy story arc involving cyber terrorist Cipher – played by Charlize Theron. In a quick overview provided by Kurt Russell’s Mr. Nobody Cipher hired Owen Shawn played by Luke Evans to acquisition Nightshade (Fast & Furious 6) and hired Mose Jakande played by Djimon Hounsou to steal the software program God’s Eye (Fast 7). In both instances Dominic Toretto and his family had intervened and thwarted her plans.
The Question is why use Dominic in the first place? She has a small group of very resourceful mercenaries at her disposal and the tech and intelligence to rival and crush opposing law enforcement. The only posing and physical threat to Cipher is DSS agent Luke Hobbs a super cop that is hard to kill and has been making the arrests of all her plans stick. Blackmailing Dominic Torreto only works in her favor to being able to get close enough to Hobbs without him knowing it and removing him as an obstacle, which is how Dom get Hobbs incarcerated in Prison, while also securing a very powerful EMP device. Once her obstacle is out the way, and weapon in hand, Getting the Russian Football as they tailored it can be done by anyone of her highly trained operatives, at this point the blackmail leverage of Elena, the baby, and Dom are just baggage moving forward, there is was no need to hold anyone or keep anyone alive any further. The moment the EMP landed in her possession. She could have sent Dominic on a mission unbeknownst to him into Nobody’s head quarters on a false mission; and suicide bomb him remotely on top of seizing the God’s Eye and ensuring the multiple deaths of Dom’s family to be an added revenge from past grievances and possibly eliminating Mr. Nobody the secret agency leader tasked to stopping her. This in tally would reduce loss of man power and personal resources on Cipher’s end, while securing the God’s Eye and surgically removing her only opposition in the process.
The Film begins in Cuba, With Dominic and Letty on their honeymoon, it’s a lighter happier time before the story switches into an action drama, According to the Director F Gary Gray , he wanted to acknowledge older fans who wanted the franchise to revisit its roots and offer just street racing. Cuba was an original choice; as the Obama administration had lifted the embargo from Cuba, Marking this movie to be the first big budget film production in the country. Without decades of trade relations Cuban Cars have remained classic cars from 40’s and 50’s era, with Domenic Toretto racing against a classic 1956 Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria. Gray had worked with all principle actors directing Dwayne Johnson in Be Cool, and Charlize Theron & Jason Statham in the Italian Job, Ludicris on a Pepsi commercial, and Vin Diesel on the film ‘A Man Apart’; and had established a good rapport.
Which helped as these actors were all in high demand, Dwayne Johnson was filming the HBO series Ballers and was near completion on production of the Baywatch movie, while Jason Statham was in the middle of filming the movie ‘The Meg’. Between working out the logistical scheduling and working through the alleged behind the scenes drama, Gray ironed out a pretty smooth filming production. The film’s budget was somewhere between 250 to 270 million dollars; which had used about 30 million dollars worth of cars in the making of the movie and some of those nice cars got destroyed, and nearly a million dollars in fuel to maneuver and operate a submarine.
With Fast X set for theatrical release in May 2023, viewers will see the final chapter of the Fast Saga, Justice for Han, and Justice against Cipher is expected to be realized. Directed by Louis Leterrier known for Transporter movies will also have us see Jason Statham return one last time as Decker Shaw. This story promises an even bigger ensemble cast out for one last ride and hopefully put to rest many story arcs including that of Brian/ Paul Walker’s character to rest.
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