On the MCU bend, Fast Five fearlessly flings several of its universe’s characters together - Vin Diesel from Fast 1, Ludacris from Fast 2, Sung Kang from Fast 3, Gal Gadot from Fast 4, Paul Walker as the seamless Nick Fury - while chucking in a new baddy with the brawns of a Thanos and the charms of a Loki ( Dwayne Johnson, of course). Somehow, Fast Five does both at the same time, perfectly, scorching the earth with skid marks action filmmakers simply haven’t had a choice to not follow. Our modern prestige blockbusters, be they Avengers: Endgame or Mad Max: Fury Road, tend to fall into one of these two buckets. And there’s the Ghost Protocol template, in which practicality and tactility is the rule above all else, with audience appeal coming from a sense of grounded spectacle, a sense of “they really did that” - think 2010’s Inception, or yes, 2011’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.
There’s the Marvel Cinematic Universe template, in which shared screen universes are setup using seemingly complicated character relationships to demand (and acquire!) unprecedented attention from its viewers - think, obviously, of the 2010-2012 MCU run that begins with Iron Man 2 and ends with The Avengers.
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Broadly speaking, the early 2010s cracked two paths for viable blockbusters of its future. But Fast Five also wound up charting the course for action blockbusters 10 years from 2011. The answer wound up being an emphatic “yes,” of course. We wanted to see if we could raise it out of about racing and make car driving ability just a part of the movie, like those great chases in The French Connection, The Bourne Identity, The Italian Job… 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?” So if these movies were still about street racing, there was probably a ceiling on how many people would buy tickets. Universal chairman Adam Fogelson called it “the transitional movie,” and said at the time of producing the film, “We’ve heard so many people say, ‘I’ve never seen one, and I’ve never wanted to see one,’ about the Fast franchise. It was intended as a game-changer, an elevation, an expansion of who this franchise could appeal to. RELATED: New ‘F9’ Trailer Reunites the Family Once Again, This Time Against John Cenaįast Five was released in 2011, 10 years after the original film’s release. I’m not even gonna think about the submarine.” Among these various missions of increasing intensity and absurdity, we can point at one midpoint rest stop that changed the itinerary forever - not just for the Fast and Furious franchise, but for blockbuster filmmaking en masse. How did we get from point A to point Z so furiously? Tyrese Gibson, ever the franchise’s endearingly befuddled voice of reason, wonders this aloud himself in the F9 trailer: “Y’all ever thought about the wild missions we’ve been on? We’ve taken out planes, trains, tanks. And in fact, the world is not enough, as the trailer ends with the promise that this family of characters, who were once content getting their kicks in small scores and drag races, is literally driving cars to outer space. We’re no longer diving into a subsection of a world we’re taking over a world. Scored over needle drop after needle drop, all in accessible, emotion-driven pop spaces as opposed to the purposefully antagonistic nu-metal of the original, the vignettes seen are ginormous, bombastic, operatic, and wide the hell open. Compared to the original trailer, it definitely feels… different. Case in point: The film is structured around an outsider entering in, an undercover cop played by Paul Walker, our eyes and ears into this subset of the world.Ģ1 years later, Universal released the trailer for F9, the ninth film in the now long-running, lucrative, supersized Fast and Furious franchise. But there’s something tightly contained about the experience, like we’re being allowed to peek under the lid of an underworld sub-culture, observing like a voyeur, mouth agape at the alluring grunginess of it all. Cut to an aggro nu-metal track, the sizzle reel boasts Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Michelle Rodriguez submerged in a gritty, sweaty, sexy world of car races, gunfire, and explosions.
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In 2000, Universal released the trailer for The Fast and the Furious.