MOVIE TRIVIA: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About FAST 5 & FAST AND FURIOUS 6!!!

  FAST FIVE (2011)   PLOT Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom. As they assemble their elite team of top racers, the unlikely allies know their only shot of getting out for good means confronting the corrupt businessman who wants them dead. But he's not the only one on their tail. Hard-nosed federal agent Luke Hobbs never misses his target. When he is assigned to track down Dom and Brian, he and his strike team launch an all-out assault to capture them. But as his men tear through Brazil, Hobbs learns he can't separate the good guys from the bad. Now, he must rely on his instincts to corner his prey... before someone else runs them down first.                  MOVIE TRIVIA The stunt involving the flatbed truck slamming into the moving train was filmed practically without the use of miniatures or CGI. The collision nearly derailed the train, as can clearly be seen.

  

Because of the negative reaction from car enthusiasts regarding the use of CGI backgrounds and locations, director Justin Lin insisted "Fast Five" has a limited use of it to focus more on practical effects.

  

The building where Herman Reyes' office is, actually, the Headquarters of Banco Central do Brasil (Central Bank of Brazil).

  

When Tej, Roman and Han are sitting around a coffee table each discussing his plans for his share the money, there is a bottle of Conjure Cognac on the table. Conjure is co owned by Ludacris who plays Tej Parker in the film.

  

Rio's Police squad has never used Dodge Chargers or any of the other models showed in the movie. In fact, by the time the movie was shot, the cars that the Rio de Janeiro Police really used in law enforcement was Volkswagen Gol (known in Mexico as Volkswagen Pointer), Chevrolet S10, Chevrolet Blazer, Chevrolet Astra Sedan (known as Saturn Astra in U.S.), Renault Logan (known in Europe as Dacia Logan), Renault Mégane and Renault Sandero (known in Europe as Dacia Sandero).

  

The place where Roman Pearce is seen for the first time in the movie was supposed to be Rio de Janeiro International Airport but the place where the scene was shot is, in fact, the sidewalk of the Museu de Arte Moderna (Museum of Modern Art).

  

The first "Fast and Furious" film to be released in IMAX.

  

Hobbs and his team are looking at a traffic cam picture of Dom's car. They can't make out the faces of the occupants because their faces are covered. Hobbs says to use FRS (Facial Recognition Software). The occupants' photos pop up and show that they are "Dominic Toretto" and "Han Seoul-Oh" (Han Solo). Maybe Han's other vehicle is the Millennium Falcon. Hobbs also says that they can change their names but not their faces, so maybe this is an alias.

  

In 2010 it was incorrectly reported that Charisma Carpenter would have a role.

  

In the August '11 issue of Mopar Action, it's revealed,that several of the '70's Chargers in fact were equipped with small block Chevy engines. The "hero car" for close ups, did have a Hemi. Albeit, a Gen 1 392 and not the venerable, widely known and assumed 426 Gen 2 Hemi.

  

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The trivia items below may give away important plot points.

During an on-set interview for Fast & Furious 6 (2013), Michelle Rodriguez revealed that she didn't know about the "twist ending" to Fast Five (with Letty's "security cam" photo landing on Hobbs' desk) until she actually saw it herself in theaters.

  

Featured cars include: Opening scene: Acura NSX, 1970 Dodge Charger, Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. Train scene: Ford GT40, Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport, De Tomaso Pantera GT5-S, Custom Truck. US Marshall vehicles: Armet Gurkha F5. Misc. Crew vehicles: Ford Galaxie 500 XL, Ducati Streetfighter. Misc. Race/Course vehicles: Porsche 911 Carrera, Subaru Impreza WRX Sti, Nissan 370z. Police cruisers: Dodge Chargers. Final Chase: Dodge Charger SRT-8. Epilogue: Dodge Challenger SRT-8, Nissan GT-R, Lexus LFA, Koenigsegg CCXR.

  

When Hobbs opens the safe on the bridge, on the inside of the safe's door is a manufacturers badge which identifies the manufacturer as "Zuverlässige Tresor GmbH", which is German for "Reliable Safe Inc".

  

Upon their arrival in Rio, Brian and Mia drive a KPGC10 Nissan Skyline GT-R, the first to wear the GT-R badge. At the end of the movie, Brian is shown in a R35 Nissan GT-R, the latest Nissan car to wear the GT-R Badge.

 
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FAST AND FURIOUS 6   PLOT Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian's (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin's empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete. Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez). The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.   TRIVIA   Hobbs is mocked three times as a different member of The Avengers. He is called "The Hulk", "Captain America" and "Samoan Thor".

  

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

  

An early leaked version of the Superbowl TV spot showed the title "Furious 6" as the title of the film. The later released teaser poster and TV spot showed the final title of the film. Justin Lin clarified that Universal Studios made the decision to promote the film as "Fast & Furious 6" but the official title is "Furious 6".

  

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.

  

When Brian O'Connor is taking his prison mug shot, his alias is T. Bridges. That is the combination of his two co-stars' names Tyrese Gibson and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges

  

Dennis McCarthy, the man behind building the vehicles used in the fast car 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.

  

Mark Bomback did an uncredited rewrite for the script.

  

Sarah Harding was nearly chosen for the role of Vegh.

   

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

  

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

  

Spoilers 

The trivia items below may give away important plot points.

When Letty is with Dom, Brian and the crew towards the end of the film, Brian approaches Letty to apologize to her for getting her involved with Braga and Letty says to Brian, "I may not remember anything, but I do know one thing. Nobody makes me do anything I don't want." This is the first (and only) time in the entire Fast and Furious series that Brian and Letty talk to each other directly.

  

The post-credits sequence is Han's death from "Tokyo Drift", while using new footage to introduce Ian Shaw.

  

Jason Statham and David Tennant were at different points considered to play the film's antagonist before Luke Evans signed on. Statham would go on to play antagonist Ian Shaw during the end credits scene.

  

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

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