Fast & Furious 10 Behind The Scenes Facts About The Original Movie

Fast & Furious: 10 Behind The Scenes Facts About The Original Movie

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Before it became a billion-dollar film franchise, The Fast and The Furious was an unassuming project riddled with weird production hiccups.

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Fast & Furious 10 Behind The Scenes Facts About The Original Movie

Fast And Furious 9 is one of the most anticipated movies of the year, but The Fast and the Furious is still a favorite amongst many fans, as it unashamedly embraces everything the series has tried to shed in the time since.

Having become a franchise that has raked in billions, it’s fascinating to find out how the Fast & Furious series had such humble beginnings and was seemingly produced so off the cuff. With so many improvisations, making things up as they went along, and some extraordinarily bizarre casting decisions, it’s incredible that the movie turned out as well as it did.

10 Based On A Magazine Article Called Racer X

Fast & Furious 10 Behind The Scenes Facts About The Original Movie

Being one of the most realistic movies in the series given that it has since become a gravity-defying action franchise, The Fast and the Furious was very much grounded in reality, starring a group of street racers who steal trucks of DVD players.

So, it makes sense that the movie is based on a magazine article documenting street racing in Los Angeles. The name of the article is Racer X, and it goes into great detail about the races and the way the racers customize their vehicles, which the movie directly lifted for the first race scene and Race Wars.

9 Michelle Rodriquez Didn’t Have A Driving Licence During Production

Fast & Furious 10 Behind The Scenes Facts About The Original Movie

Being a movie where the racers’ cars are as much characters as the ones who drive them, it’s unsurprising that most of the cast, including Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, were massive gearheads.

However, that wasn’t the case for all of the supporting characters. During production of the movie, Michelle Rodriguez didn’t actually have a driving license. She is seen driving cars in the first movie almost more than most of the other characters, as Rodriguez’ Letty is one of the street racers and hijackers.

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8 The Original Title For The Movie Was Redline

Fast & Furious 10 Behind The Scenes Facts About The Original Movie

The Fast and the Furious has become one of the most well-known movie titles of all time, but that wasn’t what the movie was originally going to be called. The title for the film was originally going to be Redline, and there’s even behind-the-scenes footage of the production of the first movie where the cast members refer to the film using its original title.

Racer X, the name of the original article on which the movie is based, was also in the running for the title. However, the producers finally landed on The Fast and the Furious. That name originally belonged to a 1954 movie, which was also about street racing.

7 Timothy Olyphant Was Originally Supposed To Play Dom

Fast & Furious 10 Behind The Scenes Facts About The Original Movie

It’s impossible to see anybody else playing the role of Dominic Toretto, the hotheaded speed demon who has been the main character in seven of the nine movies, but he wasn’t actually the first choice for the part. Timothy Olyphant was offered the role, with the producer going as far as to only green light the movie if Olyphant agreed to take the part.

However, Olyphant refused the role, and, considering how successful the movie has become and how it is now a multi-billion dollar franchise, we would wager that Olyphant deeply regrets turning down the role.

6 Vin Diesel Had To Be Convinced To Take The Role

Fast & Furious 10 Behind The Scenes Facts About The Original Movie

Similar to Olyphant turning his back on the movie, it was looking like nobody wanted to play Dom, as even Vin Diesel had to be convinced to take the part. Producer Neil H. Meritz recalls having to persuade him to take the role, which is incredible considering how Diesel has had so much input in the series as a whole.

It’s fascinating that the actor had to be convinced, as he had only ever had supporting roles up to that point, and it would have been his first leading role. Diesel is clearly a hard man to please, as he also turned down 2 Fast 2 Furious because he didn’t like the script.

5 An Alternate Ending Was Shot

Fast & Furious 10 Behind The Scenes Facts About The Original Movie

As the movie cuts to the credits after Brian lets Dom escape before the cops show up, it ends pretty ambiguously for the both of them. However, an alternate ending was shot that wraps things up in a much clearer way.

In the alternate ending, Brian is dropped off at Dom’s old house after having resigned from the force. He finds Mia packing up Dom’s old things in the garage, and they talk about getting back together. It would have been interesting if this ending was kept, and it would have meant that 2 Fast 2 Furious would have been a lot different, given that Brian was on the run from the cops at the beginning of the sequel.

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4 78 Cars Were Destroyed During Production

Fast & Furious 10 Behind The Scenes Facts About The Original Movie

It’s no wonder that the budgets for the Fast & Furious series keep going up and up, as there are so many expensive cars that get totaled. Including both on-screen and off-screen, 78 cars were destroyed during the production of the first movie.

However, that number is actually minuscule compared to the number of cars that were destroyed in the sequels. The highest body count when it comes to the vehicles is in Fast & Furious 6, as 350 cars were completely destroyed. In total, the Fast & Furious series has destroyed more than 1800 cars, and that doesn’t even include the spin-off, Hobbs & Shaw.

3 The Fight Scene Outside The Grocery Store Was Improvized

Fast & Furious 10 Behind The Scenes Facts About The Original Movie

There’s a lot of improvising that happens on the set of the Fast & Furious movies, and it all started with the very first one. Following Brian and Mia talking about how good the tuna is in Toretto’s market at the beginning of the movie, a fight breaks out between Brian and Vince.

Apparently, the fight was done completely on the fly, and, though there was a fight scene that was choreographed, the actors decided to improvise the whole thing.

2 Eminem Almost Played Brian O’Connor

Fast & Furious 10 Behind The Scenes Facts About The Original Movie

There were a lot of actors who were in the running for FBI agent Brian O’Connor, including Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, but the most surprising of them all was Eminem himself, Marshall Mathers.

It would have been a very different movie if that was the case, and it would undoubtedly have been more serious. Though it was a missed opportunity for the rapper, he was able to star in another 2000s hit, 8 Mile, which was more Mathers’ speed.

1 Corona Didn’t Pay For The Product Placement

While there are a lot of wild concepts where the series could go next, and street racing has taken a back seat, there will always be two constants that carry the franchise; family and Corona.

Corona has been a classic staple in the Fast & Furious franchise ever since the first movie, as Dom says to Brian, “you can have any beer you want, as long as it’s a Corona.” Apparently, Corona hasn’t handed over a dime for this promotion, and they’ve got millions of dollars worth of advertising absolutely free.

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