The plan, which doesn’t need to and probably can’t be understood, involves Charlize Theron’s super-hacker character Cipher, though the series still has no idea what to do with her. Jakob is a “spy,” which is the word the series has settled on for the international antics it’s now committed to, and he’s working with Otto (Thue Ersted Rasmussen), a dictator’s brat, to retrieve a MacGuffin of mass destruction. When Dom sprouts an estranged younger brother named Jakob (John Cena) in F9, the film doesn’t blink at the fact that he’s never been mentioned before - enough that he has the Toretto scowl and automotive superpowers, and that Mia (Jordana Brewster) is positioned as the sibling who got caught between them. What happens to these characters may be ridiculous, but their reactions have always been consistent, and when the new film blessedly returns Han from the dead through an act of deus ex retconning, the satisfaction of the scene comes not from the explanation but the way the other characters’ reactions to seeing him are calibrated based on how far back they went with him. They’re like a writing exercise in which anything may be possible - F9 goes to outer space - but only if it’s then fit into the overall emotional continuity, which is why, when in the last installment Dom’s crew joined forces with Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), a man responsible for murdering one of their own, Han (Sung Kang), it felt like a betrayal. They never forget anything, which is their most enduring quality. If audiences have forgotten that the Fast & Furiouses began as the story of a guy who got into illicit street racing after getting banned from the legal kind after almost killing the guy who caused the crash that killed his father, the films themselves have not. To watch director Justin Lin, who returned for F9 and the two subsequent films that will close the series out, wind things back to the start is to feel blessed relief that this improbably good gearhead daddy-issues opera may very well stick its landing. Despite this, it was not very good, having been made under the mistaken assumption that the excess is key to these movies when, in fact, the earnestness is. The last one, The Fate of the Furious, ended with the characters facing down a nuclear submarine on ice plains in the Barents Sea. This incident, a footnote of an origin story mentioned in the first The Fast and the Furious 20 years ago, might come as news to anyone who arrived later to the mammoth franchise and developed the entirely reasonable impression that it’s about indestructible globe-trotting agents of some sort who fight tanks and jump cars through skyscrapers in Dubai. If you are going to strap a rocket engine to a Pontiac Fiero, you are probably going to need a military base to try it out on.Īnd eagle-eyed Fast fans will recognise former nuclear weapons base Greenham Common in F9.Īfter seeing the modified vehicle created by Sean Boswell (Lucas Black), Twinkie (Bow Wow) and Earl (Jason Tobin), Tej Parker says: "Please tell me that's not a Pontiac Fiero strapped to a rocket engine.F9 opens on a racetrack in 1989, right before what will become the defining incident in the life of glowering hero Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) - the death of his father, who’s one of the drivers competing, in a fiery crash. Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez were both on set there for filming in June 2019. The production team built a huge film set on site which turned the Ashridge Estate’s Golden Valley into a Californian ranch. ![]() ![]() One such locations was beauty spot Ashridge Forest, situated in the Chiltern Hills. ![]() ![]() Studios Leavesden, Creative England's Filming in England reports that F9 producers utilised some of the locations in the surrounding area. With filming taking place at Warner Bros. While the Toretto ranch is somewhere in California, the scenes were actually filmed in the Hertfordshire countryside. Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto is leading a quiet life off the grid with Letty and his son, little Brian, at the start of Fast 9 but they know that danger always lurks just over their peaceful horizon.
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