It also marks the first appearance of Gibson and Ludacris as Roman and Tej Parker, introducing them to the franchise. Customs Service to bring down drug lord Carter Verone (Cole Hauser) in exchange for the erasure of their criminal records.Ģ Fast 2 Furious is a sequel to the first film and is the only film in the main series not to feature Diesel as Dominic. It was released on June 22, 2001.īrian and his childhood friend Roman Pearce ( Tyrese Gibson) team up to go undercover for the U.S. The film was directed by Rob Cohen and written by Gary Scott Thompson, Erik Bergquist, and David Ayer. The first installment in the series follows Brian O'Conner ( Paul Walker), an undercover LAPD cop, who is tasked with discovering the identities of a group of unknown automobile hijackers and underground street racers led by Dominic Toretto ( Vin Diesel). According to the first film's director, the whole concept of the series was based on a magazine article about street racing. note Roger Corman, who created the outline for that film, licensed the rights to its title to Universal. Not at all to be confused with the 1955 movie also named The Fast and the Furious, directed by John Ireland and starring Ireland and Dorothy Malone, though the fact that is one of the first films to have a feature-length Chase Scene may have had something to do with the 2001 film being given the same title.

The movies are known for their unrelenting sequel escalation, steadily growing the films into one of the most popular, and financially successful, action franchises in recent memory.

Here, the cars are fast, the drivers are furious, technology porn abounds and the cast of characters who eventually become 'the crew' aren't just comrades, they're family. Fast & Furious, originally named The Fast and the Furious, is a series of action films, which center on illegal street racing and ( later) heists, produced by Universal.

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