Fast & Furious - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Fast & Furious or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Fast & Furious

[sandra]

Due to Universal Pictures moving the release date up from June 12 to April 3rd, composer Brian Tyler only had three days to record the orchestral score.

[mathew]

Despite having the cast reunited, Michelle Rodriguez (Letty) does not share any scenes with Paul Walker (Brian) and Jordana Brewster (Mia), since Letty dies after the events of the opening scene.

[phyllis]

With 72.5 million dollars, it had the highest-grossing opening weekend for a car-themed movie (beating Cars (2006)' 60.1 million dollars).

[sophie]

Toretto is seen installing a carb "hat", centrifugal supercharger on his '70 SS Chevelle during the preparation montage.

[jesse]

Ron Yuan suffers from vertigo. For the scene where his character David Park hanging out the window, the reactions on his face are natural. Director Justin Lin in the commentary said that he really wanted to get this scene done since they were losing the natural lighting. He jokily threatened to hang Ron himself if he didn't do the shot right away.

[alyssa]

Gal Gadot's on-screen film debut.

[wallace]

Paul Walker's character Brian O'Conner used to be blonde yet Paul Walker switched from natural blond to brunette in real life after Timeline (2003).The script for this film offers no explanation as to why Brian is a brunette now. Paul Walker was a brunette since 2004.

[duane]

This is the first Fast & Furious film to be released in theaters in April instead of June.

[fred]

David Ayer (The Fast and the Furious (2001), Training Day (2001)) did uncredited rewrites.

[liam]

At the golf driving range scene when Braga tells the prospective drivers "Good drivers are a dime a dozen. Man, every corner's got a chingadera tuner racing for pinks...", Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker's character) briefly smiles as he remembered racing Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) for pink slips in The Fast and The Furious (2001).

[clayton]

The song heard when Dom, Brian, and Mia are eating, is called "Los Bandoleros" by Don Omar and Tego Calderon. They play Leo and Santos In this movie, and in the fifth film. the song is also heard at the end of the sixth film, at the cookout. There is even a short film of the same name that takes place before the events of this film. It stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Don Omar, and Tego Calderon. It was directed by Vin Diesel.

[carla]

Vin Diesel originally wanted to make the fourth and fifth films back to back, but Universal decided to take some time to see how the current movie would work out before moving on to a fifth. Diesel was allowed to direct an eighteen minute short film set in the Fast And Furious world, which is available on the DVD.

[nina]

The film takes place before the events of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006). Sung Kang plays Han in both films, in this film when Dominic tells Han to go his own way he says he's going to go to Tokyo, where he becomes a major character in the third film.

[melinda]

With a gross of 72.5 million dollars, it had the biggest three day opening for Universal Pictures, beating The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)'s 72.1 million dollars.

[veronica]

Released the same year as The Final Destination (2009), the fourth film in another franchise, whose title is also almost identical to the tile of the first film, omitting any number or subtitle. Coincidentally, the second, third, and fifth films of both series have also been released in the same years.

[ivan]

The F-BOMB Camaro used at the end of the final chase scene through the tunnel is a duplicate of David Frieberger's real '71 Camaro "F Bomb". David was the chief editor for Hot Rod magazine for years. Originally built by Tom Nelson at Nelsonracingengines.com

[addison]

Michelle Rodriguez and Laz Alonso starred together in the movie Avatar (2009).

[ava]

When Dom (Vin Diesel) visits Letty's grave, the headstone reads "Leticia Ortiz". In Spain this caused much amusement because "Letizia Ortiz" (with Z) was a journalist who on May 22, 2004 became Princess of Spain after marrying Prince Felipe (son of on those times King Juan Carlos de Borbón of Spain), and later crowned as Queen Letizia of Spain and King Felipe of Spain on June 19, 2014.

[steve]

Vin Diesel and Gal Gadot who star in this movie went on to be superheroes. Diesel, who plays Dom this movie went on to do the voice of Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), and Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Gadot, who plays Giesle in the movie went to play Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Wonder Woman (2017), and Justice League (2017).