168 Fun Facts About Fast and the Furious

Which music magazine published 'Racer X', the 1998 article behind The Fast and the Furious?

Vibe ran Ken Li's 'Racer X' in May 1998; it followed Rafael Estevez around New York's illegal street races, and the film moved that world to Southern California.

Who directed 2001's The Fast and the Furious, and cameos in it as a Pizza Hut delivery man?

Rob Cohen plays the Pizza Hut delivery man; the film's producer also pops up, as the driver of a black Ferrari that Brian challenges.

Paul Walker's pitch for The Fast and the Furious mashed together which two films?

Days of Thunder and Donnie Brasco were Paul Walker's answer when the director and producer asked for his dream project: he wanted to play a racing driver and an undercover cop at once.

In 2001's The Fast and the Furious, undercover officer Brian O'Conner works for which police force?

LAPD officer O'Conner goes undercover in the street racing world to investigate truck hijackings believed to be the work of Dominic Toretto's crew.

Which wrecked car does Brian bring to Dom's garage in The Fast and the Furious, rebuilt as his signature ride?

Brian tows a wrecked Toyota Supra to Dom's garage; once the crew has rebuilt it he races a Ferrari in it, and in the final scene he hands Dom its keys so he can escape.

Dominic Toretto's beloved 1970 muscle car, built with his late father, is which model in The Fast and the Furious?

Dodge Charger R/T: Dom takes his father's 1970 car out for the final chase, then drag-races Brian over a railway crossing in it and is hit by a passing truck, which wrecks it.

Which two stars of The Fast and the Furious needed driving lessons, having no licence?

Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster both learned for the film; Brewster, raised in New York, said she had never driven and would otherwise have been a non-driver at 40.

Which car does Jesse bet and lose in a drag race at Race Wars in The Fast and the Furious?

Volkswagen Jetta: Jesse stakes his father's car against a Honda S2000, loses, and drives off instead of handing it over, which is why the rival crew comes looking for him.

In The Fast and the Furious, how does Dom tell Brian he lives his life?

A quarter mile at a time: Dom says nothing else matters, not the mortgage, the store or his team, because while he races he is free.

Who directed 2 Fast 2 Furious, two years after making the drama Baby Boy?

John Singleton directed 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), bringing Baby Boy's leading man along to play Roman and casting Ludacris as Tej.

In 2 Fast 2 Furious, Brian and Roman go undercover in which city to bring down drug lord Carter Verone?

Miami-based dealer Carter Verone is the target; in return for bringing him down, Brian and Roman are promised that their criminal records will be wiped clean.

Which actor plays Sean Boswell, the American teenager sent to Japan in Tokyo Drift?

Lucas Black, an Alabama native, plays Sean Boswell; he returned as Sean in Furious 7 and in F9, where Sean's crew builds a rocket car in Germany.

Vin Diesel waived his fee for the Tokyo Drift cameo in exchange for the rights to which character?

Riddick: Universal had dropped the series, so Diesel asked for the character instead of pay, and owning it let his own company make 2013's Riddick as an independent film.

Which American classic does Sean rebuild with the wrecked Silvia's engine for Tokyo Drift's final race?

Ford Mustang: Sean's father had salvaged a 1967 Fastback, and the crew fits it with the engine from the wrecked Silvia, so an American muscle car ends up winning a Japanese drift race.

What title does Sean claim from Takashi in the mountain-road finale of the 2006 Tokyo film?

Sean becomes the new Drift King, or DK, after beating Takashi in the mountain-road race; the feud began over Takashi's girlfriend Neela.

Which director helmed every film from Tokyo Drift through Fast & Furious 6, then returned for F9?

Justin Lin directed Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6 and F9; he also co-wrote Fast X but gave up the director's chair, and Louis Leterrier took over.

The 2009 film Fast & Furious sees Dom and Brian hunt which drug lord after Letty's apparent murder?

Arturo Braga, a Mexican heroin kingpin, is the target; Dom and Brian each get a place among his smuggling drivers, and the story is set before Tokyo Drift, which is why Han is in it.

At the start of 2009's Fast & Furious, Dom's crew is hijacking fuel tankers in which country?

The fuel-tanker hijack opens in the Dominican Republic, where Dom works with Letty, Han, Tego and Rico; Dom then slips away from Letty at night to keep her clear of the police.

In Fast Five's opening scene, Brian and Mia free Dom from what kind of vehicle?

A prison bus: it is taking Dom to Lompoc to start his sentence when Brian and Mia attack it on the road and free him, which turns all three into fugitives.

Which US government agency does Luke Hobbs work for when he is introduced in Fast Five?

Hobbs is a Diplomatic Security Service agent, the State Department's law-enforcement arm, sent to Rio to capture Dom and Brian; Rio officer Elena Neves is assigned to assist him.

Which actor plays Owen Shaw, the ex-SAS mercenary leader in Fast & Furious 6?

Luke Evans plays Owen Shaw, a former SAS major stealing parts for a weapon called Nightshade to sell to the highest bidder; his crew turns out to include an amnesiac, not-dead Letty.

In Fast & Furious 6, what does Hobbs offer Dom's crew in exchange for helping to catch Owen Shaw?

Full pardons: Hobbs wins Dom over with a photo showing Letty alive, and the deal is what lets the whole crew go home to Los Angeles once the job is done.

Which star appears in the credits scene of Fast & Furious 6 as Deckard Shaw, apparently killing Han?

Jason Statham's surprise cameo as Deckard Shaw tied the timeline back to Han's crash in Tokyo Drift, released seven years earlier, and set him up as the villain of Furious 7.

Who directed Furious 7?

James Wan, the horror director behind Saw and The Conjuring, made Furious 7, and had to halt the shoot for months when Paul Walker died midway through filming.

After Paul Walker's death, whose stand-in work let Furious 7 complete Brian's remaining scenes?

Paul Walker's brothers Caleb and Cody stood in for him, with his face digitally composited onto their performances; filming paused after his death on 30 November 2013 and the release moved to April 2015.

In Furious 7 the crew jumps a car between the Etihad Towers in which city?

Abu Dhabi's Etihad Towers are where Dom and Brian steal a billionaire prince's supercar and drive it out of one skyscraper and on through two more.

'See You Again', the Furious 7 tribute to Paul Walker, was performed by Wiz Khalifa and which singer?

Charlie Puth sings the hook, which he co-wrote while thinking of a college friend killed in a motorcycle accident; the video was YouTube's most viewed for a few weeks in 2017.

'See You Again' led the Hot 100 for 12 weeks, matching the rap record set by which 2002 hit?

Lose Yourself spent 12 straight weeks at number one; 'See You Again' needed two spells to match it, losing the top spot to Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' and then taking it back.

Paul Walker died in November 2013 as a passenger in which car?

Walker died on 30 November 2013 in Santa Clarita, riding in a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT driven by friend Roger Rodas, minutes after leaving a Reach Out Worldwide charity event.

Which Oscar winner plays the cyberterrorist Cipher, introduced in The Fate of the Furious?

Charlize Theron plays Cipher; she coerces Dom by holding his ex Elena and the son he did not know he had, and returned as the villain in F9 and Fast X.

The Fate of the Furious opens with Dom and Letty on honeymoon in which city?

Havana opens the film: on honeymoon there, Dom races his cousin's 1949 Chevrolet against a local loan shark's faster car, wins narrowly, and leaves the cousin his own Impala.

What kind of vehicle does Cipher hijack in the icy climax of The Fate of the Furious?

Cipher's hackers commandeer a Russian nuclear submarine at a frozen naval base; Dom lures its heat-seeking missile back into the sub, with the ice chase filmed in northern Iceland.

Which actor plays Mr. Nobody, the covert-ops chief who recruits Dom's crew in Furious 7?

Kurt Russell plays Mr. Nobody, who promises to help Dom catch Deckard Shaw if the crew first rescues a hacker called Ramsey from a terrorist's convoy.

Who directed Hobbs & Shaw?

David Leitch, a former stuntman who had just made Atomic Blonde and Deadpool 2, directed Hobbs & Shaw (2019); its finale takes Hobbs home to Samoa.

Which wrestler-turned-actor plays Jakob Toretto, Dom's estranged younger brother, in F9?

John Cena plays Jakob Toretto; F9's flashbacks reveal Jakob tampered with their father's car at his request before the fatal 1989 race, which is why Dom cast him out.

In F9, which two characters go into orbit in a rocket car to destroy a satellite?

Roman and Tej ride the rocket car, a Pontiac Fiero fitted with a rocket engine by Sean, Twinkie and Earl in Germany, into orbit to ram the villains' satellite.

Which rapper plays Leysa, a woman with history with Dom, in F9?

Cardi B plays Leysa, an old ally from Dom's past who bails him out mid-film; she and reggaeton star Ozuna were announced for F9 in October 2019.

Who plays Dante Reyes, the vengeful son of Fast Five's villain, in Fast X?

Jason Momoa plays Dante Reyes, who opens his revenge by turning Cipher's own crew against her, kidnapping their families so that they will work for him.

Which city hosts the opening chip heist in Fast X, and also its world premiere?

Rome hosts Fast X's opening heist, in which Dante's rolling bomb careers toward the Vatican, and the film held its world premiere at the Colosseum in May 2023.

In Fast X, Letty and Cipher escape together from a black-site prison in which frozen region?

Antarctica: the two enemies work out where they are being held and break out together, and in the final scene Gisele, presumed dead since Fast & Furious 6, arrives to collect them.

In Furious 7, what destroys the Toretto house in Los Angeles?

A parcel bomb sent by Deckard Shaw levels the house: he is taking revenge on Dom's crew for putting his younger brother in hospital.

What is Vin Diesel's real name?

Mark Sinclair Vincent took the 'Vin' of his stage name from Vincent, his mother's married surname; Sinclair was her maiden name, and friends supplied 'Diesel'.

Which car does Sean drive, and wreck, racing a classmate at the start of Tokyo Drift?

Chevrolet Monte Carlo: Sean's 1971 coupe ends the race against a classmate's Dodge Viper as a wreck, and to keep him out of jail his mother sends him to live with his father in Tokyo.

Which screenwriter reworked The Fast and the Furious from a New York story into a diverse Los Angeles one?

David Ayer, the writer of Training Day, was brought in to rework the first draft, and moved a mostly white, suburban New York story into the mixed street-racing scene of Los Angeles.

In The Fast and the Furious, Dom offers Brian any beer he wants, as long as it is which brand?

Corona: Dom makes the offer at his house on the night Brian keeps him out of handcuffs, driving him clear of the police while Dom's own crew ran for home.

Which Gone in 60 Seconds actor declined to play Dominic Toretto, expecting The Fast and the Furious to be 'stupid'?

Timothy Olyphant was the studio's pick, with a green light promised if he signed; he said later that he passed because he thought the film would just be stupid.

Which B-movie producer let Universal reuse the title of his 1954 film The Fast and the Furious?

Roger Corman, producer of the 1954 The Fast and the Furious, let Universal use the title in exchange for stock footage; working titles had included Redline, Racer X and Race Wars.

After losing their first race, what does Dom say Brian owes him in The Fast and the Furious?

A ten-second car: Brian had staked his own car on that race and lost it; he settles the debt in the last scene, handing Dom his keys instead of arresting him.

Which sandwich does Brian keep ordering at Toretto's Market in The Fast and the Furious?

Tuna: one of Dom's crew sneers that no one likes the tuna there, sure that Brian keeps coming back to see Mia instead, and the two end up brawling outside the shop.

Which record producer composed the electronica-tinged score for The Fast and the Furious?

BT, the trance producer Brian Transeau, scored the film with a 70-piece ensemble and percussionists drumming on car chassis; he went on to score the drama Monster.

In The Fast and the Furious, which crew member is shot on the last truck hijack, forcing Brian to call a medevac?

Vince is left dangling from the truck's cab and shot by the driver; Brian blows his cover by calling in a helicopter medevac that saves him, and Vince returns in Fast Five.

Which character, played by Rick Yune, leads the rival racing crew in The Fast and the Furious?

Rick Yune plays Johnny Tran, leader of a rival crew feuding with Dom; Tran is shot dead by Brian during the final chase after gunning down Jesse.

Which 1991 Kathryn Bigelow film did one reviewer call The Fast and the Furious 'essentially a remake' of?

Point Break sends an undercover FBI agent into a gang of surfing bank robbers; Universal liked the pitch as that story among street racers, and The Observer's review called the result 'essentially a remake'.

Who plays Carter Verone, the drug lord in 2 Fast 2 Furious?

Cole Hauser plays Carter Verone, who makes Brian and Roman beat six other drivers to a package in an impound lot before he hires them; Hauser later played Rip Wheeler in Yellowstone.

After Vin Diesel turned down a reported $25 million to return, who became Paul Walker's co-star in 2 Fast 2 Furious?

Tyrese Gibson joined as Roman Pearce, Brian's childhood friend; Diesel thought the script inferior to the first film's and left, later saying he might have shown more patience.

Which rapper, who played Edwin in The Fast and the Furious, turned down $500,000 to return for the sequel?

Ja Rule had earned $15,000 for the first film and passed on $500,000 for the second, so a new part, Tej, was created and went to Ludacris, who became a series regular.

Which car does Brian race in the opening street race of 2 Fast 2 Furious?

Brian drives a 1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 in the opening race, which ends with a jump over an open drawbridge and his arrest; for the mission he switches to a Lancer Evo while Roman takes an Eclipse Spyder.

Which model plays Suki, the street racer with an all-female crew, in 2 Fast 2 Furious?

Devon Aoki, then better known as a model, plays Suki; she had no licence and had never driven before the shoot, so she took driving lessons during filming.

Which actress plays Monica Fuentes, the customs agent undercover with Carter Verone, in 2 Fast 2 Furious?

Eva Mendes plays Monica Fuentes, who has spent nearly a year undercover as Verone's assistant; she returns in Fast Five's mid-credits scene to show Hobbs that Letty is alive.

Which composer, known for James Bond scores, wrote the music for 2 Fast 2 Furious?

David Arnold, composer of five James Bond scores, wrote the music for 2 Fast 2 Furious after scoring Shaft and Baby Boy for the same director.

Which Pixar film did 2 Fast 2 Furious beat to top the US box office on its opening weekend?

Finding Nemo, in its second weekend after the biggest opening yet for an animated film, lost the top spot to 2 Fast 2 Furious, then took it back a week later.

Which muscle car do Brian and Roman launch onto Verone's yacht in 2 Fast 2 Furious?

Brian and Roman jump a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Yenko off a boat ramp and crash it onto Verone's yacht, ending the film's chase and capturing the drug lord.

Which role did Paul Walker give up for 2 Fast 2 Furious, leaving it to Colin Farrell?

Paul Walker was set to play Jim Street in S.W.A.T. and had begun training when he left for 2 Fast 2 Furious; Colin Farrell took the part opposite Samuel L. Jackson.

Which rapper plays Twinkie, the American military kid who befriends Sean in Tokyo Drift?

Bow Wow (Shad Moss) plays Twinkie, an army brat who sells goods out of a Hulk-themed Volkswagen Touran and introduces Sean to Tokyo's drift scene.

Tokyo Drift filmed without permits in which crowded Tokyo district, where a hired fall guy was jailed as 'the director'?

Shibuya was where the director insisted on shooting; when police came to arrest him, a man the studio had hired without telling him claimed to be the director and spent the night in jail.

Which tuning house built the orange-and-black Mazda RX-7 'Fortune' Han drives in Tokyo Drift?

Veilside's 'Fortune' wide-body kit gives Han's Mazda RX-7 its look; the show car debuted at the 2005 Tokyo Auto Salon and was repainted orange and black for the film.

Which car does Dom drive in his cameo at the end of Tokyo Drift?

Dom turns up in a 1970 Plymouth Road Runner, a custom car built for the SEMA trade show, and Sean agrees to race him only once Dom says that Han was family.

Which Japanese racing driver made an uncredited cameo and consulted on Tokyo Drift's stunts?

Keiichi Tsuchiya, the racer who popularised drifting in Japan, advised on Tokyo Drift's stunt driving and appears uncredited as a fisherman who laughs at Sean's first drift attempts.

Under what title was Tokyo Drift released in Japan?

The Fast & Furious films are released in Japan as Wild Speed, and Tokyo Drift opened there in September 2006 as Wild Speed 3, styled on posters as 'Wild Speed X3'.

Which Japanese martial-arts film star plays Kamata, Takashi's yakuza uncle, in Tokyo Drift?

Sonny Chiba, star of The Street Fighter and a veteran of Kill Bill, plays Kamata, the yakuza boss who lets Sean settle the feud with a single downhill race, loser leaves Tokyo.

Which director admitted a 'soft spot' for Tokyo Drift in a 2020 interview?

Christopher Nolan said in a 2020 interview that he loves the franchise and has a 'soft spot' for Tokyo Drift, while naming the first film his favourite.

Which hashtag did Fast & Furious fans rally behind before Han's return in F9?

#JusticeForHan took off after The Fate of the Furious welcomed Han's killer, Deckard Shaw, into the family; F9 answered it by revealing that Han had survived.

Which 2002 film by the Tokyo Drift director first featured the character Han?

Better Luck Tomorrow (2002), its director's breakout indie, introduced Sung Kang as Han; director and actor both treat him as the same character, which makes it Han's unofficial origin story.

What is Han's tongue-in-cheek alias in the Fast & Furious films?

Han Seoul-Oh is a fake ID, the director has said: a pun on Star Wars' Han Solo that nods to the Korean heritage Han shares with actor Sung Kang.

In Tokyo Drift, Twinkie calls Han's Nissan Silvia S15 the what 'of the drift world'?

Twinkie calls the Silvia S15 'the Mona Lisa of the drift world' because Han rebuilt it from the ground up; Sean then wrecks it in his first race against Takashi.

Which short film, directed by Vin Diesel, sets up the tanker heist that opens Fast & Furious?

Los Bandoleros (2009), a 20-minute short Vin Diesel wrote and directed, has Dom break a friend out of prison and plan the tanker job to give fuel to the locals, before Letty arrives to rejoin him.

Which production team handled most of the 2009 Fast & Furious soundtrack?

The Neptunes, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, produced most of the album for Pharrell's Star Trak label; it also features Don Omar and Tego Calderón, who both act in the film as members of Dom's crew.

Fast & Furious's $70.9 million opening beat which film's record for an automotive-themed movie?

Fast & Furious took $70.9M on its April 2009 opening weekend, passing Cars' $60.1M as the biggest debut for a car-themed film and outgrossing Tokyo Drift's entire domestic run.

Which actor plays Vince, Dom's old friend who reappears in Fast Five?

Matt Schulze plays Vince in the first film and again in Fast Five, where Vince rejoins Dom's crew after saving Mia and is killed when Reyes's men ambush a convoy.

For whom was the role of Luke Hobbs originally developed before Dwayne Johnson?

Luke Hobbs was written with Tommy Lee Jones in mind; Vin Diesel changed course after a fan's Facebook comment asked to see him paired with Dwayne Johnson, who was then cast.

Which US territory stood in for Rio de Janeiro in much of Fast Five?

Puerto Rico doubled for much of Rio, with the favela rooftop chase shot in the hillside town of Naranjito; the island's film tax credits drew the 2010 production there.

In Fast Five, Reyes's vault is hidden inside which building?

A police station holds the vault: after the crew burns one of his cash houses, Reyes moves all his money there, so they ram the wall with an armoured truck and drag the vault out.

Which genuine supercar, worth $2 million, did Fast Five's train heist avoid risking by using replicas?

The Ford GT40 in the train heist was too valuable to risk, so replicas were built; a De Tomaso Pantera and a Corvette Grand Sport were the other two cars on the train.

Which motorcycle did Gal Gadot have to learn to ride for Fast Five?

Ducati Streetfighter: Gal Gadot already rode motorcycles, but she had to train on this larger, more powerful bike before playing Gisele on it in Fast Five.

Which actor plays Fast Five's drug lord Hernan Reyes?

Joaquim de Almeida, the Portuguese actor behind villains in Clear and Present Danger and Desperado, hesitated to play another, and took Reyes only after talking the character over with the director.

Which Spanish actress plays Rio police officer Elena Neves, introduced in Fast Five?

Elsa Pataky plays Elena Neves, a Rio officer assigned to the American manhunt for Dom, who ends the film as his partner instead of arresting him.

Which Don Omar hit plays over the ending of Fast Five?

Danza Kuduro was re-recorded for Fast Five and plays over its ending; Don Omar is on screen too, as Santos, one of Dom's heist crew.

In Fast Five's mid-credits scene, Monica Fuentes shows Hobbs a convoy hijacking in which city?

Fuentes hands Hobbs a file on a military convoy hijacked in Berlin, with a photo of a very much alive Letty, setting up Fast & Furious 6.

The actress who plays Gisele went on to star as which DC superhero?

Wonder Woman arrived just in time: Gal Gadot has said she was on the verge of giving up acting when she was called in for the audition that won her the part.

Fast & Furious 6 was only the third production allowed to film in which West End landmark?

Piccadilly Circus hosted Dom and Letty's drag race among the double-decker buses, but an exploding-tanker scene was refused, so a replica went up at Shepperton Studios.

Which island group hosted Fast & Furious 6's motorway tank chase?

The Canaries hosted the chase, where the tank really flattened roughly 250 cars on a closed motorway instead of leaving the carnage to computer effects.

Which MMA fighter plays Riley Hicks, who brawls with Letty in an underground station, in Fast & Furious 6?

Gina Carano plays Riley Hicks, Hobbs's trusted partner, who is unmasked late in the film as Owen Shaw's mole and dies fighting Letty aboard the cargo plane.

By the BBC's estimate, how long would the runway in Fast & Furious 6's finale need to be?

18 miles is roughly what the BBC worked out for the 13-minute take-off chase, about five times the length of the world's longest paved runway.

Which singer cameos as the race starter in Fast & Furious 6?

Rita Ora starts Dom and Letty's street race; she said the producers asked her to be 'the leader of the pack' for the city's girl racers.

Whom does Owen Shaw take hostage in Fast & Furious 6 to force his release?

Mia is seized by Shaw's henchmen just as the crew captures him, so Hobbs has to let him walk; Brian frees her aboard the cargo plane in the finale.

What title appears onscreen in the opening credits of the sixth Fast & Furious film?

Furious 6 is what the title card reads; Universal confirmed it to Entertainment Weekly while insisting the film's official title was still Fast & Furious 6.

Which custom-built vehicle does Owen Shaw drive when Dom's crew first chases him in Fast & Furious 6?

The Flip Car is a low, Formula-style racer whose ramp nose launches oncoming cars into the air; the crew built it as a fully working vehicle.

In Fast Five, what news from Mia persuades Dom that the fugitives should stay together?

She is pregnant with Brian's child, Mia announces as Dom proposes splitting up; he answers with one last job, stealing Reyes's fortune to buy the family a new life.

Which martial arts star made his Hollywood debut as Kiet in Furious 7?

Tony Jaa, the Ong-Bak star, made his Hollywood debut as Jakande's henchman Kiet in Furious 7, fighting Brian twice, after joining the cast in August 2013.

Which UFC fighter plays Kara, head of security for a Gulf billionaire, in Furious 7?

Ronda Rousey plays Kara, the billionaire's head of security, and fights Letty at his party; it was her second film role, after The Expendables 3 (2014).

What is the name of the hacking program at the centre of Furious 7's plot?

God's Eye can track anyone on Earth through networked cameras and phones; Mr. Nobody promises Dom its use against Deckard Shaw if the crew first rescues its kidnapped creator.

Which actor plays Mose Jakande, the mercenary warlord who teams up with Deckard Shaw in Furious 7?

Djimon Hounsou plays Mose Jakande, whose helicopter hunts the crew across Los Angeles until Dom leaves a bag of grenades on it and Hobbs shoots the bag.

How did Furious 7 film its cars parachuting from a cargo plane?

Real cars dropped from the air on parachutes at about 12,000 feet did the job; the plane on screen is a C-17, but the drops were actually made from a C-130 Hercules.

Which $3.4 million supercar is destroyed on screen in Furious 7, using a cheaper stand-in?

Lykan HyperSport stand-ins came from W Motors' own moulds, but in fibreglass on a stretched Porsche Boxster chassis, so no $3.4 million original was harmed.

Furious 7's mountain convoy chase, set in the Caucasus, was actually filmed in which US state?

Colorado's Monarch Pass stood in for the Caucasus, and the chase was the shoot's most destructive sequence, wrecking more than 40 vehicles.

Which effects house recreated Paul Walker's likeness in Furious 7?

Weta Digital, the studio behind Gollum, finished about 350 shots of Brian; with no scans of Walker to work from, it rebuilt his face from archived photos and footage of his earlier films.

Furious 7 took the fastest-to-$1-billion record from which Marvel film?

The Avengers had shared the record of 19 days with Avatar and the last Harry Potter film; Furious 7 needed only 17, and its own record fell about two months later.

In which country did Furious 7 take more at the box office than it did in North America?

China gave Furious 7 nearly $390 million against $353 million in the US and Canada, making it the country's highest-grossing film ever at the time.

At which festival did Furious 7 first premiere, at 12:07 a.m., before its LA gala?

SXSW billed it only as a secret midnight screening, so the Austin crowd at the Paramount Theatre saw Furious 7 more than two weeks before its Hollywood premiere.

Which Australian artist cameos as a Race Wars racer and appears on the Furious 7 soundtrack?

Iggy Azalea appears as a racer at Race Wars and features with Wiz Khalifa on 'Go Hard or Go Home' from the Furious 7 soundtrack; T-Pain also cameos as himself, DJing the Gulf party.

How does Furious 7 write Brian O'Conner out of the series?

He retires to raise his family: the crew watch Brian on a beach with Mia and their son, then he and Dom drive side by side until the road splits and their cars part.

Who directed The Fate of the Furious, his first film in the series?

F. Gary Gray, fresh from Straight Outta Compton, got the job after the previous film's director chose a horror sequel over returning.

The Fate of the Furious introduces Hobbs coaching his daughter's team, haka and all, in which sport?

Soccer is the game: Hobbs has the girls perform a haka to rattle the other team, a scene inspired by Dwayne Johnson's own Samoan ancestry.

Which US city stood in for Manhattan during The Fate of the Furious?

Cleveland doubled for Manhattan; the 'zombie car' sequence of hacked vehicles raining out of a parking garage was shot in its downtown in May 2016.

Which Game of Thrones actor plays Cipher's right-hand man Connor Rhodes in The Fate of the Furious?

Kristofer Hivju, Tormund in Game of Thrones, plays Connor Rhodes, who shoots Elena dead on Cipher's orders and is killed by Dom in the finale.

Which Dame makes an uncredited cameo as the Shaw brothers' mother in The Fate of the Furious?

Helen Mirren, uncredited, plays Magdalene Shaw, mother of Deckard and Owen; she had publicly asked Vin Diesel for a part and later returned in Hobbs & Shaw, F9 and Fast X.

Which actor plays 'Little Nobody', Mr. Nobody's junior agent, from The Fate of the Furious?

Scott Eastwood's rookie agent was a part newly created for the film, working under Mr. Nobody; the crew's mocking nickname stuck, and he returned in Fast X.

The Fate of the Furious held the record for biggest global opening ($541.9M) until which film?

Avengers: Infinity War ended the record's one-year run in 2018; The Fate of the Furious had set it even though its North American opening, $98.8 million, was a third below Furious 7's.

Under what working title was The Fate of the Furious announced at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards?

Vin Diesel announced the sequel as Fast 8 at the August 2015 Teen Choice Awards; the title became The Fate of the Furious when the first trailer arrived in December 2016.

Which screenwriter wrote every main-series film from Tokyo Drift to The Fate of the Furious?

Chris Morgan wrote six films in a row, then skipped F9 to write the spin-off Hobbs & Shaw, leaving the script to newcomer Daniel Casey and the film's director.

What is the name of the weapons program Jakob and Otto try to activate in F9?

Project Aries can hack into any computer-controlled weapons system, but its two halves need a DNA key to work, which is why both sides hunt a young woman named Elle.

Which Guardians of the Galaxy actor plays Buddy, a member of Dom's father's pit crew, in F9?

Michael Rooker, Yondu in Guardians of the Galaxy, plays Buddy, the mechanic who took Dom's banished brother in as a teenager and who points Dom to his trail.

Which Southeast Asian country hosted part of F9's 2019 location shoot?

Thailand, where the crew shot around Krabi and Phuket, stands in for Montequinto, the fictional Central American country where Dom's team searches a crashed plane.

In F9, Dom fights his estranged brother across the streets and rooftops of which Scottish city?

Edinburgh hosts the chase, which ends when Ramsey commandeers a truck carrying a giant electromagnet and uses it to pluck the brother's car off the road.

In which country did F9 first open, on May 19, 2021?

South Korea got F9 on 19 May 2021, an unusual 37 days ahead of North America, where the pandemic had pushed the release back to 25 June.

Which Puerto Rican superstar cameos as 'Lookout' in F9?

Bad Bunny appears only briefly as Lookout, but he also wrote the song De Museo for F9; it plays over the credits, was left off the soundtrack album, and came out as a single after the film opened.

F9's $70 million US opening was the biggest since which 2019 release?

The Rise of Skywalker was the last film to open that big before the pandemic shut cinemas, so no debut had passed F9's $70 million in the eighteen months between.

Which 2005 Disney comedy cast Vin Diesel as a Navy SEAL assigned to babysit five children?

The Pacifier was a deliberate break from Diesel's tough-guy roles and a box-office hit, made in the years he sat out the Fast films.

Which character sacrifices himself in Fast X to get Dom and Little B past Dante's men?

Jakob Toretto rams his car into Dante's pursuers to clear a path for Dom and Little B, dying in the explosion, a redemption for the brother who fought Dom in F9.

Which Oscar winner plays Tess, Mr. Nobody's daughter, in Fast X?

Brie Larson, Best Actress winner for Room (2015), plays Tess, Mr. Nobody's daughter and the crew's Agency contact in Fast X; she had publicly said she wanted to join the franchise.

Which actress plays Abuelita Toretto, Dom's grandmother, in Fast X?

Rita Moreno, then 91, plays Abuelita Toretto, the family matriarch who toasts the crew at the Los Angeles barbecue early in Fast X.

Which relative of Paul Walker makes a cameo as a flight attendant in Fast X?

His daughter Meadow, a model, made her acting debut as the flight attendant; her father appears too, in footage from Fast Five, so the two share a film a decade after his death.

Which Marvel film had Louis Leterrier directed for Universal before taking over Fast X?

The Incredible Hulk (2008) was Louis Leterrier's first big American film; he was hired within a week of the original director quitting and rewrote scenes as he shot.

Fast X's climax takes place at a dam in which country?

Fast X's finale is set at a hydroelectric dam in Portugal, where Dom drives down the dam's face with Little B as Dante's explosives go off, leaving a cliffhanger.

Which northern Italian city hosted two weeks of Fast X action filming in 2022?

Turin gave the production ten days of filming in its streets and squares from 24 May 2022, after about twenty weeks of preparation.

Which motorcycle maker's CEO did Fast X's villain actor phone personally to secure six bikes?

Harley-Davidson sent six bikes after the actor, a keen rider, refused the small trick bikes such films usually use and phoned its chief executive himself.

Which comedian cameos as Bowie, a friend of Ramsey, in Fast X?

Pete Davidson cameos as Bowie, a hapless friend of Ramsey's the crew turns to for equipment; Debby Ryan and Josh Dun also cameo as a couple at an airport.

Which Game of Thrones actress has played the hacker Ramsey since Furious 7?

Nathalie Emmanuel, Missandei in Game of Thrones, joined as the hacker the crew rescues from a moving convoy, and Ramsey has ridden with them in every main film since.

Who plays Aimes, the Agency director who turns on the crew in Fast X?

Alan Ritchson, star of Reacher, plays Aimes, who takes over the Agency from Mr. Nobody and is revealed late in Fast X to be working with Dante.

Who plays Isabel Neves, Elena's street-racing sister, in Fast X?

Daniela Melchior, Ratcatcher 2 in The Suicide Squad, plays Isabel Neves, the street-racing sister of Dom's late partner Elena, whom Dom meets at a Brazilian street race.

Which actor beat Fast X's Vin Diesel to Worst Actor at the 44th Golden Raspberry Awards?

Jon Voight took Worst Actor for the film Mercy, decades after winning the Best Actor Oscar for Coming Home.

What is the name of the programmable virus Hattie injects herself with in Hobbs & Shaw?

Snowflake is the supervirus MI6 agent Hattie Shaw injects into herself to keep it from Eteon, which then frames her for stealing it and sends her on the run.

Which British actor plays Brixton Lore, the cybernetically enhanced villain of Hobbs & Shaw?

Idris Elba plays Brixton Lore, a former MI6 colleague of Deckard Shaw, who thought he had killed him years before Eteon rebuilt him with cybernetic implants.

Which wrestler and cousin of Dwayne Johnson plays a Hobbs brother in Hobbs & Shaw?

Roman Reigns plays Mateo Hobbs; his casting was announced while he was away from WWE being treated for leukaemia, and a month later he was back in the ring, in remission.

Which Hawaiian island doubled for Samoa in Hobbs & Shaw's third act?

Kauaʻi doubled for Samoa, hosting the Hobbs family homestead and the final battle in a third act built to showcase Dwayne Johnson's Samoan heritage.

Which actor plays CIA agent Locke in Hobbs & Shaw and, under a pseudonym, also voices the unseen villain?

Ryan Reynolds is credited as 'Champ Nightingale' for the voice of Eteon's Director, a part Keanu Reeves had been in talks to play.

Which producer sued Universal after being removed as lead producer on Hobbs & Shaw?

Neal H. Moritz, a producer on the series since the first film, sued Universal in 2018 for breach of an oral contract; the two sides settled in 2020 and he produced F9.

Who plays Madame M, the thief and old flame who helps Deckard Shaw in Hobbs & Shaw?

Eiza González plays Madame M, whose all-female crew gets the heroes into Eteon's stronghold by pretending to hand over a captured Hattie.

Paul Walker founded the relief charity Reach Out Worldwide after leading a volunteer team to which disaster?

The 2010 Haiti earthquake prompted Walker to organise a relief team, and on its return he founded the charity to get skilled volunteers into disaster zones faster.

In Netflix's animated Fast & Furious Spy Racers, how is teenage hero Tony Toretto related to Dom?

His cousin: Tony and his friends are recruited by a government agency to infiltrate SH1FT3R, a racing league that fronts for a crime ring.

Which star of The Crown plays Hattie Shaw, Deckard's MI6-agent sister, in Hobbs & Shaw?

Vanessa Kirby, The Crown's Princess Margaret, plays Hattie; flashbacks show her growing up beside Deckard, though Kirby is some twenty years younger than the actor playing her brother.

In The Fate of the Furious, what does Dom steal from Hobbs when he turns on his own crew?

An EMP device: Dom forces Hobbs off the road and takes it for Cipher, and the betrayal lands Hobbs in the same high-security prison as Deckard Shaw.

Which Universal Studios roller coaster prompted Supercharged's closure in 2025?

Hollywood Drift's cars rotate through 360 degrees to mimic drifting; the tram ride closed in March 2025 ahead of the coaster's arrival, and Florida's version followed in August 2026.

Vin Diesel is a longtime player of which tabletop game, for whose 30th-anniversary book he wrote the foreword?

Dungeons & Dragons even gave Diesel a film: his foreword described his own character, a witch hunter named Melkor, and a screenwriter built The Last Witch Hunter (2015) around him.

The XK120 sports car at the centre of the 1954 The Fast and the Furious was built by which British marque?

Jaguar's XK120 is the car the fugitive commandeers along with its owner, a 'lady racer'; the producer got a local Jaguar dealer to supply cars for the shoot.

Vin Diesel voiced the title character of which 1999 animated film?

The Iron Giant flopped in cinemas, taking far less than it cost to make after a muted marketing push, and only later won the cult following that made it a classic.

On which soap opera did Paul Walker play Brandon Collins in 1993?

The Young and the Restless cast Walker as Brandon Collins opposite Heather Tom's Victoria Newman, and the storyline earned both of them Youth in Film Award nominations.

What subject did Paul Walker major in at community college?

Paul Walker studied marine biology at Los Angeles-area community colleges after leaving Village Christian School in 1991; his love of the ocean later took him onto National Geographic's Expedition Great White.

Paul Walker starred as a guide forced to leave his sled dogs behind in which 2006 Disney film?

Eight Below remakes a Japanese hit based on a real 1958 expedition that left 15 sled dogs chained at its base; two of them, Taro and Jiro, were found alive almost a year later.

Vin Diesel adopted his stage name while working as what at New York's Tunnel nightclub?

Vin Diesel worked as a bouncer at Manhattan clubs including the Tunnel from his late teens, and friends there dubbed him Diesel for his boundless energy.

Which short film written, directed by and starring Vin Diesel got him noticed by Steven Spielberg?

Multi-Facial, a 20-minute short Diesel wrote, directed and starred in about a mixed-race actor's auditions, screened at Cannes in 1995 and led Spielberg to write him a part in Saving Private Ryan.

Which Marvel character has Vin Diesel voiced on screen since 2014?

Groot says little beyond 'I am Groot', and Diesel also recorded the line in several other languages so that foreign-language releases would carry his voice.

In The Fast and the Furious, Dom says he was banned for life after beating Kenny Linder with what?

A wrench: Dom tells Brian he meant to hit the driver who had put his father into the wall only once but could not stop; Linder never raced again.

What cars does Dom's crew use for the truck hijackings in The Fast and the Furious?

The crew runs the hijackings in three black Honda Civic coupes with green underglow, latching onto trucks with a harpoon-style grappling rig to steal loads of electronics.

What prison sentence does Dom receive at the end of Fast & Furious (2009) before his crew springs him?

25 years to life, with no early parole, is the judge's answer after Dom, tired of running, gives himself up instead of fleeing and Brian's plea for clemency fails.

Which failed Bond-girl audition did Gal Gadot say led to her casting as Gisele?

Gal Gadot lost the part of Camille in Quantum of Solace to Olga Kurylenko, but that audition's casting director later brought her in for Gisele in Fast & Furious (2009).

In which car are Han and Gisele last seen speeding down the Autobahn at the end of Fast Five?

Han and Gisele ride off in a Lexus LFA in Fast Five's epilogue, with Han eyeing Tokyo; by Fast & Furious 6 the pair are living together in Hong Kong.

How does Gisele obtain Hernan Reyes's handprint during Fast Five's heist prep?

On her bikini bottoms: Gisele walks up to Reyes and has him put his hand on her backside, capturing the print; the move wins Han's admiration and starts their romance.