When the original Paul Walker and Vin Diesel movie, The Fast and the Furious, came out in 2001, it set new cinematic standards for high-octane action. While the new film, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw ditches the street-racing aesthetic of earlier movies, it manages to be even more over the top and action-packed.
If you don’t think so, watch this trailer…
Check out the ridiculous trailer for Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw:
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw: Made for Automobile Fanatics
Hobbes & Shaw starring action movie icons Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham looks to be a pulse-pounding thrill ride and one of those summer movie events you just can’t miss. If you love heart-pounding action, gut busting stunts, exotic custom cars and laugh out loud thrills, this is definitely the car movie you need to check out this summer.
While the first trailer released and linked above looks quite exciting, it leaves one to wonder: will this really be a true car movie, fitting of a series as successful as The Fast and the Furious?
The newest trailer, released just earlier this week, seems to answer those lingering questions and build even more hype for the film’s release which is scheduled for August 2nd of 2019.
Check out the newest trailer for Hobbes & Shaw:
Designed as a homage to superhero movies and buddy flicks, Hobbes & Shaw puts American agent of the Diplomatic Security Service, Hobbes, played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson” into an alliance with Jason Statham’s ex British Special Forces agent, Shaw. The matchup has more or less been in the works since the characters first encountered each other in the 2015 movie, Furious 7.
In Furious 7, the action stars were often at odds with each other, trading insults and fighting words in just about every scene they found themselves in. The new movie maintains that comedic tension but Statham and Johnson find themselves forced to keep the peace in an effort to save the world.
In Hobbes & Shaw, the storied transatlantic partnership comes together during a time of international crisis. Brixton, a character described as “Black Superman” and played by famed British actor Idris Elba has some pretty serious arch villain plans for the future of humanity.
The trailer for Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw features a variety of unique vehicles.
A beastly McLaren makes an appearance with our heroes behind the wheel getting ready to tune up some of the films numerous villains. A gnarly souped up Peterbilt Semi-Truck with a Baja Lift that would not be out of place in Mad Max: Fury Road makes an appearance. There are also tons of top of the line motorcycles, soaring helicopters and all kinds of ultra customized cars from around the world.
If you love high intensity action, chase scenes, and completely ridiculous on-screen antics, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbes & Shaw is one car movie you need to check out this summer.
Check out this synopsis to get to the bottom of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbes & Shaw (SPOILER ALERT):
Ever since hulking lawman Hobbs (Johnson), a loyal agent of America’s Diplomatic Security Service, and lawless outcast Shaw (Statham), a former British military elite operative, first faced off in 2015’s Furious 7, the duo have swapped smack talk and body blows as they’ve tried to take each other down.
But when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton (Elba) gains control of an insidious bio-threat that could alter humanity forever — and bests a brilliant and fearless rogue MI6 agent (The Crown’s Vanessa Kirby), who just happens to be Shaw’s sister — these two sworn enemies will have to partner up to bring down the only guy who might be badder than themselves.
Hobbs & Shaw blasts open a new door in the Fast universe as it hurtles action across the globe, from Los Angeles to London and from the toxic wasteland of Chernobyl to the lush beauty of Samoa.
How Did They Choose the Cars in the Original The Fast and the Furious?
Before The Fast and the Furious was a household name and a box office juggernaut franchise earning more than $3.9 Billion internationally, it was a gamble. Originally shopped around Hollywood as, Redline, it took some time before proper funds could be acquired to produce the original 2001 film.
Once the funding came in, it was way under the budget industry analysts predicted the film would cost. Expected to cost at least $50 million, the producers tried their best to create something special for the discount rate of $38 million. No simple task, but one that required a very careful selection process when it came to selecting the film’s many on-screen rides.
Drawing from dawn of the millennium tuner culture, Craig Lieberman was the man tasked as technical adviser to bring The Fast and the Furious’ auto driven action to life. With a shoestring budget of $2 million, he managed to spend wisely to be able to pull together the original movie’s iconic street cars.
While original selections such as the Nissan Skyline GT-R (R33), were excluded from the final selection, others like the Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4, Nissan 240SX, and now iconic, Toyota Supra found their way in. With only $2 million to spend on cars including customization, transportation, gas and everything else, choosing the right cars was tougher than you might imagine.
This budget meant the producers were forced to rent most of the cars seen on screen. The were more often than not, automatic cars and many of them had tinted windows added to ensure purists would not be able to tell they did not feature things like Greddy gauges of N2O tanks. In some cases, the production company bought cars in really horrible conditions off places like EBay and transformed them into the high performance street tuners you saw on screen with good old fashioned movie magic.
If you are interested in learning more about how Crag Lieberman picked out cars for the original Fast and the Furious movie, check out this video he produced:
Source: The Drive