Fast & Furious 6 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[francisco]

Joe Taslim, who plays one of Shaw's henchmen, was originally given two days to film all his scenes, but worked extra hard and managed to finish them in one. Director Justin Lin, impressed with his work rate, added new scenes for him to work on the second day, one of which was the tank scene where he drives the tank.

[liam]

Mark Bomback did an uncredited rewrite for the script.

[edgar]

Several hero cars for the new film were procured from California-based Lucra Cars.

[bessie]

When Tej and Hobbs go to the classic cars auction in London, Tej sarcastically makes fun of Hobbs purported knowledge about cars, with the line "He reads the brochure. I'm proud", after Hobbs comment about horsepower and number of cylinders. That line is almost the same used by Sean Boswell in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), when he sarcastically responded to a provocation from an arrogant high school student. Sean's line was "Wow. You can read the brochure" after the student commented about horsepower and exhaust system.

[maureen]

Two theater-sized units were used for post-production work overseen by Justin Lin.

[aaron]

The tank chase was originally planned to be created via CGI, but director Justin Lin insisted that it had to be done practically with some post-production enhancements.

[toni]

When Brian O'Connor (portrayed by Paul Walker) is taking his prison mug shot, his alias is T. Bridges. That is the combination of his two co-stars' names Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris (as Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges).

[ray]

The protagonists London HQ is also used for a scene in RED 2 (2013).

[elmer]

Ludacris says the line, "Time is money," while he and The Rock are taking the clothes and watch off of the snobby auction organizer. This is the second time Ludacris said this line in his film career. The first time was in Crash (2005).

[ray]

The Fast and Furious and X-Men franchises have often released the same installments of a franchise in the same year. X2 and 2 Fast 2 Furious were both released in 2003, X-Men: The Last Stand and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift were both released in 2006, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Fast and Furious were both released in 2009, X-Men: First Class and Fast Five were both released in 2011 and The Wolverine and Fast and Furious 6 were released in 2013. Furious 7 was set to be released in 2014, the same year as X-Men: Days of Future Past, however it then was pushed to 2015 after Paul Walker's death.

[mathew]

Allegedly, more than 100 cars were crashed, wrecked, or otherwise destroyed in the process of filming.

[jessica]

Although killed in Fast Five (2011), actor Matt Schulze, who portrayed Vince, can be seen walking amongst the principal characters at the end of the opening credits.

[jesse]

Following Paul Walker's death on November 30, 2013, Universal announced that a portion of the profits from the film's North American Blu-ray and DVD sales, would be donated to Walker's charity Reach Out WorldWide.

[kyle]

During the scene where Hobbs and Roman exchange jabs at the barbecue and Tej spits out his drink in laughter you can see a bottle of Conjure cognac on the table (presumably the same as what is in his glass). Conjure congac is an alcoholic beverage that Chris "Ludacris" Bridges (the actor who plays Tej Parker) actually co-owns.

[nina]

The third Fast & Furious film to end on a cliff-hanger.

[russell]

The Dodge Daytona that Vin Diesel is driving was made custom. The actual car used in production, was rebuilt by Dennis McCarthy and his team, from the old 5,000 dollar piece of junk that they first acquired.

[bessie]

At the end, when Dom says "1327", it is the address to his house from the first movie.

[jamie]

Hobbs (portrayed by Dwayne Johnson) is told by the car auction manager that "you are clearly not a baller". Johnson would go on to produce and play the lead in Ballers (2015).

[lonnie]

Dennis McCarthy, the man behind building the vehicles used in the franchise, says that they used "a whole fleet of BMW M5s" in order to complete one sequence. McCarthy also said "We pretty much destroyed every single one later on, in other scenes"; cars that appear on-screen in close-ups or action shots are not BMW E60 M5s.