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Furious 7 (also known as Fast & Furious 7) is a 2015 action film directed by James Wan and written by Chris Morgan. It is the sequel to Fast & Furious 6 (2013), a follow-up to The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), and the seventh installment in the Fast & Furious franchise. The film stars an ensemble cast including Vin Diesel, Paul Walker (in his final film role), Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Jordana Brewster, Djimon Hounsou, Kurt Russell, and Jason Statham. In the film, Dominic Toretto, Brian O'Conner, and their team are recruited by covert ops leader Mr. Nobody to prevent Mose Jakande (Hounsou), a terrorist, from obtaining a hacking program known as God's Eye, all while being hunted by Deckard Shaw, the brother of Owen Shaw.

Plans for a seventh installment were first announced in February 2012 when Johnson stated that production on the film would begin after the completion of Fast & Furious 6. In April 2013, Wan, predominantly known for horror films, was announced to direct the film. Casting showed the returns of Diesel and Walker that same month. Principal photography began that September in Atlanta, but was indefinitely suspended in November after Walker died in a car crash; filming resumed in late March 2014 and ended in July, with Walker's brothers Caleb and Cody standing-in to complete his remaining scenes, causing delay to its 2015 release date, with other filming locations including Los Angeles, Colorado, Abu Dhabi and Tokyo. Brian Tyler, who had composed the score for Fast Five (2011), returned to compose the seventh installment. With an estimated production budget of up to $250 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made.

Furious 7 premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on April 1, 2015, and was released in the United States on April 3, by Universal Pictures. The film received positive reviews from critics for its performances, action sequences, direction and emotional tribute to Walker, with many considering it to be one of the best films in the franchise. It was a box-office success, grossing $1.515 billion worldwide, making it the third-highest-grossing film of 2015 and the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time at the time of release. It also set a record for the second-highest opening weekend of its time. It was the highest-grossing film of 2015 internationally and became the highest-grossing film of the franchise in the first twelve days of its theatrical release. A sequel titled The Fate of the Furious was released on April 14, 2017.

Plot

Plot

In a London hospital, Deckard Shaw visits his brother, Owen (Luke Evans), who is recovering from his encounter with Dominic Toretto and his crew. Reminiscing about their youth, Deckard promises his brother to set things right. He threatens the doctoral staff with harm if anything goes wrong with his brother. He leaves the hospital in ruin, with a trail of dead soldiers in his wake, having already ruined it breaking in.

In the Californian desert, Dominic is attempting to wake the memories of an amnesiac Letty Ortiz by taking her to Race Wars 2014, their "invention". When she wins a race against an inexperienced racer, she recalls a series of her fragmented memories. She punches Hector (the Race Wars organizer and a friend of Dom and Letty) and leaves.

When Dominic finds her, she is standing at her grave. She laments the fact that she cannot remember the last fifteen years of her life. She tells Dom that the way he looks at her bothers her and she cannot remember him nor properly reciprocate his feelings. When Dominic attempts to destroy the tombstone on her empty grave, she stops him and tells him that she has to leave him to find herself.

Elsewhere, Brian O'Conner is adjusting to the "slow" routines, driving a minivan to bring his son Jack to school.

In Los Angeles, Luke Hobbs is working at the DSS office on the Wiki after a workout. Although he misses the exciting past, he tries to hide this from Elena Neves. She replies that he's not a good liar. After giving Elena a recommendation, Hobbs returns to his office to find that Deckard has broken into his office and is hacking his computer. Hobbs attempts to stop Deckard from escaping, but he reveals his true purpose, and the two engage in a fight in the office until Elena returns to the office to help Hobbs. Deckard uses Elena’s arrival to his advantage and throws an explosive that forces Hobbs to abandon his pursuit and escape the building. The explosive detonates as he grabs Elena and knocks them out of the building's window, causing them to land on Elena's car. Hobbs is injured in the process of saving Elena and Deckard retrieves information on Han Seoul-Oh and Dominic Toretto's crew.

Traveling to Tokyo, Japan, Deckard is able to track Han down during his bid to escape from Takashi and runs his car off the road with his own. Back in Los Angeles, Brian and Mia Toretto are preparing to take Jack out when Mia announces that Dominic has a package from Tokyo. Dominic and Mia discuss Brian’s difficulties with adjusting a life without “bullets” and Mia shares her fears about being unable to fulfill the kind the life Brian wants. Dominic reassures his sister that Brian merely needs time to fully transition, but she asks him "How does nine months sound?" and reveals that she is pregnant again. After convincing Mia to tell Brian, Dom receives a call from Deckard Shaw in Tokyo. The older Shaw sibling announces his presence to the family. Dominic realizes, too late, the package is from Deckard and is barely able to get himself and Mia out of the way before package detonates and destroys their home.

Dominic visits an injured Hobbs in the hospital after Elena contacts him on the DSS agent’s request. He meets briefly, Hobbs' daughter, Samantha. When she meets him, she tells Dom about his and her father's last encounter. She is then escorted from the hospital room by Elena and is watching over her in Hobbs’ stead. Hobbs explains Deckard's relation to Owen Shaw and history: he started off as an off-the-books Black Ops agent, but six years ago, the British government believed that he knew too much and had gone from a "unique asset" to a liability. Subsequently, 20 agents made a failed attempt on Shaw's life and he has been a "ghost" since then. Officially, Hobbs dissuades Dominic from going after him. Unofficially, Hobbs merely asks that Dominic doesn’t miss when he gets the chance to kill him. Meanwhile, after retreating to Mando's mansion in the Dominican Republic, Brian promises Mia that they won't battle any other enemies after defeating Shaw.

Traveling to Tokyo, Dominic gets the chance to speak with Han's friend, Sean Boswell (Tokyo’s latest Drift King following the defeat of Takashi), whom he races against. Following their race, Sean gives Dominic what remained of Han’s belongings that were saved from the crash, including Dom's cross necklace and a photo of Gisele. Dominic later leaves with Han's remains and buries him in Los Angeles with the promise to see that he is avenged. At the funeral, Tej Parker and Roman Pearce speak with Brian on who could be hunting them and the refusal to attend the funerals of any more friends. Brian promises the only funeral left to attend will be Deckard’s.

Dominic realizes that the former operative is watching them and chases Deckard through Los Angeles into the tunnel where the two stare each other down. In a game of chicken, they charge each other’s vehicles and crash into each other. Dominic is prepared to fight Deckard, but the elder Shaw makes it a point to shoot him where he stands when the arrival of a Covert Ops team forces him to run. Dominic attacks the men when they threaten him, but the man in charge tries to get him to see reason and states that he was referred to Dominic by Hobbs. The only name he provides Dominic is “Mr. Nobody” and asks that he hear his proposal out.

Mr. Nobody takes Dominic to his secluded headquarters in El Segundo, California, where they exchange beer and he explains his proposition to Dominic. If he helps him save a hacker named Ramsey from a terrorist named Mose Jakande and retrieves a hacking program named the “God’s Eye”, he’ll allow Dominic to use it to find Deckard Shaw. Mr. Nobody calls Shaw a "shadow" who is very good at killing some without being seen by others, and can only be found by God's Eye. Dominic agrees to the terms if Mr. Nobody allows him to do things his way and with his own crew. Mr. Nobody obliges his request and reveals that he had Dominic’s crew rounded up and brought to his headquarters beforehand.

Dominic and the others devise a plan to attack Jakande’s convoy from the air as they arrive in the Caucasus Mountains. Roman demands that they hit the convoy from the most secure spot on the mountain, despite it being very hard to access, believing it's the spot the convoy doesn't expect the crew to hit them from. The crew is able to save Ramsey from her imprisonment, but not before encountering Deckard, who attempts to derail their rescue attempt. Dominic is cornered by Jakande’s secondary convoy and is forced to drive off of a cliff in order to save himself and Ramsey from the terrorist. The reinforced Dodge Charger R/T he uses saves them both from a certain death. Meanwhile, Brian gets trapped in the convoy by Jakande's henchman, Kiet, forcing him to escape via an emergency door as the vehicle slides off another cliff, but Letty saves him in the nick of time.

When Ramsey regains consciousness, she willingly divulges the location of the God’s Eye to the crew because she feels she has found out enough about them to trust them. They travel to Abu Dhabi and meet up with Ramsey’s friend, Safar, who explains he sold the God Eye (unwittingly) to a rich Prince who is holding a major party in one of the Etihad Towers. The crew infiltrates the party, and despite major complications --- their cover being blown by Kara, the toughest of the Prince’s bodyguards, and the unexpected arrival of Deckard Shaw --- they are able to retrieve the God’s Eye (a compact USB drive) from the Lykan HyperSport. Toretto and Brian use the HyperSport to get out by driving through the windows of the Etihad Towers, one tower to the next.

With the God’s Eye secure, Dominic, Mr. Nobody, Brian and Ramsey use it to hunt Deckard down to an abandoned factory where they find him eating. Deckard expresses disappointment in the number of men who’ve come for him, and reveals he’s joined forces with Jakande, who is looking to reclaim the God’s Eye. Deckard’s unexpected ambush results in the death of Mr. Nobody’s right hand man, Sheppard and the loss of the God’s Eye.

Dominic and Brian carry an injured Mr. Nobody out of the factory and escape. Mr. Nobody demands that they pull over and leave him on the side of the road where his emergency team will collect him for medical attention. The two leave Mr. Nobody behind and return to the others.

The crew decide to return to Los Angeles to face Deckard and Jakande on the streets they know better than any other streets, which will reduce Jakande's advantage over them. Tej devises a dangerous plan that allows them to get near enough to the God’s Eye to hack and regain control of it. Brian calls Mia, telling her to take Jack and move on if she doesn't hear from him in 24 hours, but she reveals her pregnancy and orders him to survive and come back to her.

The crew ushers Ramsey between vehicles whenever they are attacked by an unmanned Drone on the Wiki that Jakande is using to attack them. The drone chase ended up alerting the police, but Brian, Roman and Tej are able to avoid them due to the drone attacking them. Realizing that they’re being hacked, Jakande destroys the radio tower that allows Ramsey to connect to her device, pausing the hack. After his car is destroyed, Brian heads off on foot to a satellite tower to reconnect Ramsey by hand and finish the job, with Kiet in pursuit to stop him. Brian faces off with Kiet in the building with closet available tower connection and is only barely able to defeat him, using a revenge allusion to the result of their previous encounter. Also learning that Ramsey is still with the crew, Tej and Roman's car is destroyed but they bail out. He reconnects Ramsey to the God’s Eye and she is able to take control.

At a parking garage elsewhere, Dominic goes head-to-head with Shaw in a traditional “street fight” with wrenches, after using his Dodge Charger to destroy Shaw's Aston Martin. Hobbs is still in the hospital and after having witnessed the destruction of the tower he leaves the hospital with the intention of helping Toretto and his crew. Hobbs drives and ambulance arrives in time to save Letty and Ramsey, in the final car able to help Ramsey complete her hack into her device, from the drone before it can kill them. Hobbs then shoots the drone and takes the gun to help fight with the crew. Dominic is able to defeat Deckard, remarking "The thing about street fights? The street always wins," in time to save Hobbs, Ramsey and Letty from Jakande who tries to kill them with the helicopter turret.

Dominic drives his charger off of parking lot building, but appears to miss the helicopter and crashes. However, Jakande realizes that there are a belt of grenades hanging on the underbelly of the helicopter. He can't do nothing as Hobbs uses his gun to detonate the grenades and kills him. Hobbs and Brian pull Dominic from the ruined vehicle and Brian performs Furious 7 on the Wiki on Dominic in hopes to resuscitate him. A tearful Letty demands he stops, and tries to get Dominic to come around by speaking to him. She reveals that she got her memory back and“remembered everything”, including their marriage. Dominic regains consciousness and she asks why he never told her they were married. Dominic tells her, “You can’t tell someone they love you”.

In the aftermath, Shaw, having survived the collapse of the parking lot garage, is escorted to a maximum security CIA prison by Hobbs, who tells Deckard that he’ll be waiting for him on the other side should he eventually manage to escape as promised.

Elsewhere, Dominic and the rest of the crew, including Ramsey, are relaxing on a beach in the Dominican Republic. Brian appears to have finally become settled in his domestic life with Mia and role as a father to Jack. His friends watch the happy family together as Dominic prepares to leave. Ramsey asks if he intends on saying goodbye, but Dominic believes “it’s never goodbye” and departs from the rest of the group.

On the road, Brian manages to catch up with Dominic at a crossroads and inquires where he intended on going without “saying goodbye” to him. As Dom flashes back through the crew's past, he reminds Brian that they both live their lives "a quarter-mile at a time" and they will always be best friends, no matter how far away he is. The two drive together down the road until their roads split off in different directions. As the screen fades to white, a dedication to Paul Walker with a final title card that reads "For Paul" appears.

Cast

John Brotherton portrays Sheppard, Mr. Nobody's right-hand man.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor id list/data' not found.[6][7][8] Sung Kang and Gal Gadot appear in archive footage as Han Lue and Gisele Yashar. Lucas Black reprises his role as Sean Boswell, an American street racer who lives in Tokyo whom Dom meets when he travels to Tokyo to claim the body of Han, a mutual friend of theirs killed by Shaw. In September, it was confirmed that Black had signed on to reprise his role as Boswell for Furious 7 and two more installments.[9][10] Elsa Pataky reprises her role as Elena Neves, a DSS agent and former Rio police officer who moved to the United States to become Hobbs' new partner at the DSS.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor id list/data' not found. Luke Evans briefly reprises his role as Owen Shaw, Deckard's now comatose younger brother, from Fast & Furious 6 (2013), and Noel Gugliemi reprises his role as Hector for a cameo appearance from The Fast and the Furious (2001).[11]

Ali Fazal portrays Safar, a friend of Ramsey to whom she sent the God's Eye for safekeeping. Fazal described his role as a cameo.[12] Australian rapper Iggy Azalea (who also appears on the soundtrack) makes a cameo appearance as a racer at Race Wars.[13][14][15] American singer/rapper T-Pain appears as himself as he DJs a party in Abu Dhabi.[16][17] Romeo Santos makes a cameo appearance as Mando, who shelters Mia in the Dominican Republic and Klement Tinaj appears as one of the Race Wars racers.[18]

Production

Development

On October 21, 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported that Universal Studios was considering filming two sequels—Fast Six and Fast Seven—back-to-back with a single storyline running through both films. Both would be written by Chris Morgan and directed by Justin Lin, who had been the franchise's writer and director, respectively, since The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006).[19] On December 20, 2011, following the release of Fast Five (2011), Vin Diesel stated that Fast & Furious 6 (2013) would be split into two parts, with writing for the two films occurring simultaneously.[20] On the decision, Diesel said:

We have to pay off this story, we have to service all of these character relationships, and when we started mapping all that out it just went beyond 110 pages  ...  The studio said, 'You can't fit all that story in one damn movie!'[20]

However, in an interview on February 15, 2012, Dwayne Johnson stated that the two intended sequels would no longer be filmed simultaneously because of weather issues in filming locations, and that production on this film would only begin after the completion of Fast & Furious 6 (2013).[21]

In April 2013, during the post-production of the retitled Fast & Furious 6 (2013), Lin announced that he would not return to direct the seventh film, as the studio wanted to produce the film on an accelerated schedule for release in summer 2014. This would have required Lin to begin pre-production on the sequel while performing post-production on Fast & Furious 6 (2013), which he considered would affect the quality of the final product. Despite the usual two-year gap between the previous installments, Universal chose to pursue a sequel quicker due to having fewer reliable franchises than its competitor studios.[22] However, subsequent interviews with Lin have suggested that the sixth film was always intended to be the final installment under his direction.[23]

In April 2013, Australian director James Wan, predominantly known for horror films, was announced as the sequel's director, with Neal H. Moritz and Michael Fottrell returning to produce and Morgan returning to write the script, his fifth in the franchise. On April 16, 2013, Diesel announced that the sequel would be released on July 11, 2014.[24] In May 2013, Diesel said that the sequel would feature Los Angeles, Tokyo, and the Middle East as locations.[25][26]

Filming

Principal photography began in early September 2013 in Atlanta, with a casting call issued.[27][28] Abu Dhabi was also a filming location;[29] the production crew chose it over Dubai, as they would benefit from the Emirate's 30% rebate scheme.[30] Pikes Peak Highway in Colorado was closed in September to film some driving sequences.[31]

Spiro Razatos returned to serve as stunt coordinator and second unit director, having previously done so for Fast Five and Fast & Furious 6. He was joined in these duties by Jack Gill, who also worked with him on the previous two films, and Joel Kramer, who previously directed second unit for director Wan on The Conjuring (2013) and Death Sentence (2007) and would later work with him again on The Conjuring 2 (2016).[32]

On September 16, the production filmed with Paul Walker and the Kimsey twins, playing his son, Jack,[33] in front of an Atlanta elementary school.[34] Han's funeral scene was filmed at Oakland Cemetery,[35] with extras needed for the scene being "hot, hip and trendy cool types of all ethnicities between the ages of 18 and 45".[36] On the evening of September 19, Lucas Black joined the production[37] for his sole scene with Diesel, in an Atlanta parking garage. Separate scenes with Walker also shot in the same location on the same night,[38] including one half of a phone conversation between his character and Jordana Brewster's.

On October 24, over a month into the film's production, Johnson tweeted he had started shooting for the film after wrapping up on Hercules.[39] Five days later, Diesel posted the first photo of Johnson on the set, in the hospital scene.[40]

Death of Paul Walker

On November 30, Walker, who portrayed Brian O'Conner, died in a single-vehicle accident.[41][42] The next day, Universal announced that production would continue after a delay that would allow the filmmakers to rework the film.[43] Walker's death also caused a rewrite on the film's ending, which was initially going to feature the Fast team deserving a victory lap at Neptune's Net.[44] On December 4, Universal put production on hold indefinitely.[43] Wan later confirmed that the film had not been cancelled.[45] On December 22, Diesel announced that the film would be released on April 10, 2015.[46] On February 27, 2014, The Hollywood Reporter reported that filming would resume on April 1, and that the cast and crew had headed to Atlanta to prepare for about eight more weeks of shooting.[47] Principal photography resumed on 31 March and ended on July 10.[48]

Stunts

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The Lockheed C-130 Hercules[49] was used in the film to carry the vehicles that would drop from 12,000 feet high, above the Sonoran Desert, making cars plummet at a speed of about 130 to 140 miles per hour.[50][51]

The "airdrop" sequence was conceived by Razatos, who told Business Insider that he wanted to rely more on real stunts rather than CGI because he wanted the whole sequence to "feel real" and fulfill audiences' expectations.[32][52] The stunt took months of prep-solving problems. Cameras needed to be mounted onto cars in a way that they would not be destroyed when the cars landed, and the crew had to figure out a safe way to get the cars out of the plane. They performed a dry run with a single car falling out of a plane[52] and did this six times.[32] Cars were dropped from a Lockheed C-130 Hercules high above the Arizona desert, but close up shots that show the cars landing on a mountain road were filmed in Colorado.[32] There were two airplanes, flying at a height of 12,000 feet, each dropping two cars apiece.[52] BRS parachutes enabled with GPS were secured to each of the cars before dropping off the C-130 plane. At about 5,000 feet, the parachutes deployed.[32] Over 10 cameras were used for the sequence. In addition to cameras on the ground, there were cameras remotely operated inside the plane and another three mounted outside each car. Additional cameras were on a helicopter, where Razatos was stationed watching monitors. Three skydivers used in the shoot wore helmet cameras to help shoot the sequence from multiple angles. Sky divers would either jump out before cars or after them.[52] While all the cars landed on their drop zones, 70% landed perfectly and 30% did not.[32] For the close-up scenes which show the actors inside their cars, a giant gimbal with a 360-degree range of movement were attached to each of the cars and was filmed against a green screen to reproduce their tumble through the sky.[53] The last part of the scene, which shows the cars hitting the road was shot separately. To get that right, the team set up a pulley system that had cars six to ten feet above the ground. When they were dropped from the cranes, the stuntmen who were sitting in the driver's seats raced their engines at about 35 to 40 miles per hour and slid to the ground at full speed. Those cranes were then later removed from the film with computers.[32][53] Razatos claims, therefore, that the air drop sequence was "all real" and that it would be "hard to top".[52][32]

The scene featuring Brian jumping off a bus off a cliff was performed by a stuntman and was all done without any computer graphics.[54] The shooting for this particular sequence along with the scene in which Dom and his team are pursuing to rescue Ramsey almost did not happen due to the absence of tax break in Colorado.[54] The studio originally wanted to shoot the sequence in Georgia which provides tax breaks for film productions, and then add woods in the background later in post-production to which Razatos denied saying, "the audience is going to know [it's CGI] and aren't going to feel good about it."[54] Shooting finally took place in Colorado.[54]

A total of 340 cars were used in the film,[53] and more than 230 cars were destroyed in the making of the film, including several black Mercedes-Benzes, a Ford Crown Victoria, and a Mitsubishi Montero.[55] The film featured the on-screen destruction of a Lykan HyperSport by W Motors, valued at $3.4 million,[56] though the actual car destroyed was a less expensive model made for the film rather than one of the seven actual production HyperSports.[57] The mountain-highway chase scene on Colorado's Monarch Pass proved to be the most damaging sequence with over 40 vehicles being destroyed.[55][58] Only 10 percent of the action sequences in the film were computer-generated, and even then, much of the CGI was employed simply to erase the wires and other contraptions that were used to film real cars and drivers or to add a background.[53] It took more than 3,500 man-days to complete the various stunts of the film.[53]

Redevelopment of Walker's character

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In January 2014, Time reported that Walker's character, Brian O'Conner, would be retired instead of killed, and that new scenes would be developed in order to allow the franchise to continue without him.[59] To recreate Walker's likeness, the filmmakers hired Peter Jackson's Weta Digital visual effects company (which had previously produced the imagery of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings franchise and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes franchise).[60] Initially, what Weta could do was severely constrained by the quality of the reference materials available for Walker's physical appearance. In April 2014, it was reported that Walker's brothers Caleb and Cody had been hired as stand-ins.[61] Their strong resemblance to their late brother meant the filmmakers could use scans of their bodies instead of recreating Walker's entire body from scratch. The final film showed Walker's face superimposed over the bodies of his brothers or actor John Brotherton in 350 visual effects shots. 260 used a computer-generated face, while 90 repurposed actual footage of Walker's face borrowed from outtakes or older footage.[60][62][63]

Visual effects and animation

Weta Digital, Digital Domain, Scanline VFX, the Moving Picture Company (MPC), and Rodeo FX provided the visual effects and animation for the film.[64][65][66][67][68]

Weta Digital's major role in the visual effects production was for the reconstruction of Paul Walker's character, Brian O'Conner. Weta's visual effects house completed over 350 shots with visual effects, with a majority of the shots using repurposed footage of Walker's face. Joe Letteri and Martin Hill served as the visual effects supervisors for Weta, while Daniel Barrett served as the animation supervisor.[60][62] In an interview with Fxguide, Letteri said, "We tried to keep as true to Paul as we could, in whatever way we could."[69] Jay Barton led Digital Domain's visual effects team as the visual effects supervisor, and the studio produced over 800 shots with a team of close to 300 artists; their staff was split between Los Angeles and Vancouver for this process.[70] Jon Cowley and Danielle Plantec led Scanline as the visual effects supervisors at the main studio in Munich, while Mark Curtis served as the visual effects supervisor, and Laura Schultz served as the visual effects producer, at the Moving Picture Company (MPC)'s Canadian studio in Vancouver.[67]

MPC handled the visual effects of the film's final pursuit sequence in Los Angeles, where all of the cars were digitally recreated with computer-generated imagery for fully CGI shots, along with over a hundred in-car blue screen composite shots, which were done by CGI supervisor Bryan Litson; a large portion of MPC's workforce handled the visual effects for the drone, with director James Wan saying he wanted to "create an enigmatic and malevolent character that would provide a constant but elusive threat to our heroes." Inspiration for the drone were drawn by US Military's Global Hawk Drone, an A-10 Warthog, and World War II-era Corsair and Helldivers.[67]

Rodeo FX visual effects supervisor Laurent Spillemaecker, visual effects producer Audrey Boivin, CGI supervisor Sébastien Francoeur, and compositing supervisor Xavier Fourmond—handled the visual effects for two fight sequences in the film: the first being the office fight sequence between Statham and Johnson, with Rodeo using "set extensions and CGI to add flying papers, fire, smoke and explosions," while also adding in "a CGI double for The Rock who's falling from the window"; the CGI double for Johnson was one of many required for the sequence, and the second being the car collision sequence between Diesel and Statham; the studio produced the visual effect of the shattering of the glass coming from the colliding cars.[68]

Music

Main article: Furious 7 (soundtrack)

The musical score was composed by Brian Tyler, who scored the third, fourth and fifth installments of the series.[71] "There's an emotional component to Fast & Furious 7 that is unique", said Tyler about his experience scoring. "I think people are really going to be amazed by it."[72] A soundtrack album to the film was released by Atlantic Records on March 17, 2015,[73] while Tyler's score was released by Back Lot Music on March 31.

When discussing the creation of the score, Tyler explained: "It was a pleasure to collaborate with James on Furious 7, as he wanted the emotion of the themes to be the primary focus. The music uses modern recording techniques, vintage modular synthesizers, mashed-up beats, drums and tweaked remix elements along with classic film scoring traditions including full orchestra, piano, voice and classical guitar. I am so proud of the movie, and I dedicate the score to the memory of Paul Walker and all the joy he brought."

In describing Tyler's score, Wan remarked, "Brian's amazing score gave this movie life. He did an incredible job of crafting an electrifying score for the bombastic action moments, one that is balanced by the beautiful and emotional themes of the characters that underline the heart of this movie."[74]

Songs featured in the film include: "Go Hard or Go Home" (Wiz Khalifa and Iggy Azalea),[75] "Ride Out" (Kid Ink, Tyga, Wale, YG & Rich Homie Quan),[76] "See You Again" (Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth), "My Angel" (Prince Royce), "Hamdulillah" (Narcy featuring Shadia Mansour), "Get Low" (Dillon Francis and DJ Snake), "Ay Vamos" (J Balvin featuring Nicky Jam and French Montana), "Tempest" (Deftones), "Meneo" (Fito Blanko) and "Payback" (Juicy J, Kevin Gates, Future and Sage the Gemini).

Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's "See You Again", which plays over the film's ending, and itself a tribute to Paul Walker, received both popular and critical acclaim. It was shortlisted for the Song of the Year for the BBC Music Awards and was nominated for Best Original Song at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards.[77] "See You Again" was the best selling-song of 2015 worldwide, with combined sales and track-equivalent streams of 20.9 million units according to IFPI.[78]

Release

Theatrical

The film originally scheduled to be released on July 11, 2014,[24] but the film was put on hold following Paul Walker's death in November 2013.[43] In October 2014, Universal revealed that the film was officially titled Furious 7. Leading up to the event, seven-second behind-the-scenes videos were released, titled "7 Seconds of 7".[79]

The film was next scheduled for release on April 10, 2015,[46] but it was announced that the film's release date had been brought forward a week to April 3.[80] The official announcement in change of date was made in July 2014.[80] Furious 7 premiered at the SXSW Film Festival at 12:07 a.m. at Austin's Paramount Theatre on March 16, 2015.[81] For its global premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on April 1, IMAX Corporation installed a new laser projection which was the first such installation in the U.S. and the second worldwide, following The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), which opened at Scotiabank Theatre in Toronto in December 2014.[82]

Home media

Furious 7 was released on July 6, 2015, in the UK and was released via DVD and Blu-ray on September 15 in other countries. The Blu-ray edition features an all-new extended edition of 140 minutes long,[83] deleted scenes, stunts, behind-the-scenes, and the music video for Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's "See You Again". The Blu-ray and DVD versions include behind-the-scenes footage of the "Race Wars" scene including rapper Iggy Azalea and the making of the cars featured in the film.[84] In the U.S. and Canada, it sold roughly 2.5 million units on Blu-ray and DVD in its first week of release, making it the highest-selling home entertainment live-action film of 2015.[85] This record was later surpassed by Jurassic World (2015) the following month.[86] Furious 7's home video sales made a revenue of $66.4 million with 4.2 million copies sold, making it the seventh best-selling title of 2015.[87]

Reception

Box office

Furious 7 grossed $353 million in the United States and Canada and $1.163 billion in other countries, for a worldwide total of $1.515 billion, against a production budget of $190–250 million.[88][89] It was the third-highest-grossing film of 2015 and the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time.[90][91] Furious 7 was also the fastest film to reach the $1 billion mark at the time, doing so in 17 days.[92][93][94] It also became the first film to pass $1 million in 4DX admissions worldwide.[95] Deadline Hollywood calculated the film's net profit as $354Template:Nbspmillion, accounting for production budgets, marketing, talent participations, and other costs; box office grosses and home media revenues placed it fifth on their list of "Most Valuable Blockbusters".[89]

Worldwide, Furious 7 was released across 810 IMAX theaters, which was the largest worldwide rollout in IMAX's history,[96][97] Its worldwide opening of $397.6 million was the second-highest opening of all time.[98][99] The film had an IMAX opening weekend total of $20.8 million.[100]

North America

Predictions for the opening weekend of Furious 7 in the United States and Canada were continuously revised upwards, starting from $115 million to $150 million.[101][102] It opened on Friday, April 3, 2015, across 4,004 theaters, including 365 IMAX theaters, which made it the widest opening for the Fast and Furious film and Universal's widest opening release ever (until first surpassed by Jurassic World and Minions)[103][104][105] and earned $67.4 million, marking the tenth-biggest opening day.[106][107] The film's Friday gross included a $15.8 million late-night run (which began at 7 p.m.), from 3,069 theaters, marking Universal's highest late-night run, of which $2.2 million came from IMAX showings, marking the third largest IMAX preview gross ever.[108][109] Based on pure Friday gross (with the omission of revenues from Thursday shows), it earned $51.5 million, marking the fifth-biggest of all time.[110][111] Through Sunday, April 5, it had an opening weekend total of $147.1 million.[112] This opening broke the records for the highest weekend debuts in April and for the Easter Weekend, both of which were later overtaken by Avengers: Infinity War and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, respectively.[112][113] It earned an IMAX opening weekend total of $13.3 million, marking the second-biggest of all time for a 2D movie.[114][115] Premium large format comprised 8% ($11.5 million) of the total opening gross from 400 PLF screens, which is the biggest 2D PLF opening.[116]

In its second weekend, the film expanded to 4,022 theaters, thereby breaking its own record of being the widest Universal Pictures release ever, and earned an estimated $59.6 million, declining by 60%, which is the third best second weekend holdover for a pre-summer film release.[117][118] It became the highest-grossing film in the Fast & Furious franchise, doing so only in ten days (the previous record which was held by Fast & Furious 6 took fifteen weeks to reach its entire lifetime gross of $238.67 million).[117][119] It also set the record for the biggest second-weekend April gross.[120]

Other territories

Furious 7 opened on April 1, 2015, in 12 countries, earning $16.9 million (including previews from 22 countries).[121] It opened in 33 more countries on April 2, for a total of 45 countries, earning $43 million from 8,407 screens, marking Universal Pictures overseas' highest-grossing Thursday ever, and for a two-day total of $60 million.[122] It added 20 more countries on April 3, earning $59.2 million from 9,935 screens in 63 countries, for a three-day total of $120.6 million.[123][124] On April 5, it earned a 4-day opening weekend total of $250.4 million from 10,683 screens in 64 countries, which is the fourth-highest international opening ever, in all which it reached first place at the box office.[100][114][125][126] It earned an IMAX opening weekend total of $7.5 million from 175 IMAX screens, breaking the record for the biggest April IMAX gross, previously held by Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) ($6.43 million).[100] It set opening weekend records in 29 countries including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Malaysia, Mexico, Middle East, Romania, Taiwan, Thailand, Venezuela and Vietnam.[100][125] In its second weekend, it held the top spot and fell gradually by 20.4% to $198.7 million (including China's opening day gross) from 18,374 screens in 66 territories as a result of minor competition, and remaining at number one in all 63 territories where it was released the previous week. It added three new countries in its second weekend; China, Russia and Poland.[127] The film earned $167.9 million in its third weekend, which topped the box office outside of North America for three consecutive weekends.[128]

The film was a massive box office hit in China. It opened there on April 12 and set an all-time midnight run record with $8.05 million[127][129] and an opening day record with $68.8 million.[127][130] Its opening day included a record-breaking $5 million from IMAX run (also breaking Transformers: Age of Extinction's (2014) former record of $3.4 million).[127] Through its opening week (April 12–19), it earned $245.9 million.[128][131] For the weekend alone, it took in $88.7 million from 5,454 screens (Friday to Sunday) and $182.4 million (Monday to Sunday) at the Chinese box office. It grossed Template:CNY billion in five days—the fastest time in which that has been achieved—and soon became the highest-grossing foreign film ever in China.[128][131][132] In 15 days, its gross in China surpassed those in Canada and the United States[133] and became the first film in China to make more than 2 billion renminbi.[134] Its success has been credited to China Film Group Corporation, the state-owned film distributor, which had invested considerably in the film, reportedly taking a 10% stake.[135] In Latin America, it became the second highest-grossing film ($200 million), the first time Universal has reached the milestone and the second film in history to earn more than $200 million after The Avengers (2012).[136] In total earnings, the largest countries outside the U.S. and Canada are China ($391.2 million), the United Kingdom ($60 million), Mexico ($51.7 million), Brazil ($46.6 million), Germany ($42.8 million) and India ($24 million).[137][138][139] It grossed a total of $39 million in IMAX ticket sales in China, the biggest ever in the market.[140]

Critical response

Furious 7 received positive reviews from critics for its poignant tribute to Walker.[141] The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 81% with an average score of 7.70/10, based on 279 reviews, the highest-rated film in the franchise to date. The website's critical consensus reads, "Serving up a fresh round of over-the-top thrills while adding unexpected dramatic heft, Furious 7 keeps the franchise moving in more ways than one."[142] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 67 out of 100 based on 50 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". It is the highest-rated Fast & Furious film on both websites.[143] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[144]

The film received highly positive reviews upon its secret screening at the South by Southwest film festival on March 16, 2015. Ramin Setoodeh of Variety noted that fans began lining up outside four hours before the film was scheduled to start. The film closed with a tribute to Walker, which left many in the theater "holding back tears".[145] Wesley Morris wrote, "Who would have thought that a series addicted to the high of movement could also summon a solemnity that leaves you moved?"[146] A. O. Scott of The New York Times said, "Furious 7 extends its predecessors' inclusive, stereotype-resistant ethic. Compared to almost any other large-scale, big-studio enterprise, the Furious brand practices a slick, no-big-deal multiculturalism, and nods to both feminism and domestic traditionalism."[147] John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter criticized the film however, describing it as "stupidly diverting", saying the running time was "overinflated"; he compared watching the film to a morbid game, in addition to criticizing the screenplay.[148]


Accolades

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Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Template:Refh
African-American Film Critics Association Awards [[African-American Film Critics Association Awards 2015|Template:Dts]] Best Song Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth for "See You Again" Won [149]
Billboard Music Awards [[2016 Billboard Music Awards|Template:Dts]] Top Soundtrack Furious 7 Nominated [150]
Black Reel Awards [[Black Reel Awards of 2016|Template:Dts]] Best Original or Adapted Song Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth for "See You Again" Won [151]
Critics' Choice Movie Awards [[21st Critics' Choice Awards|Template:Dts]] Best Action Movie Furious 7 Nominated [152]
Best Song "See You Again" Won
ETC Bollywood Business Awards Template:Dts Most Successful Foreign Film Furious 7 Won [153]
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards Template:Dts Best Original Song DJ Frank E, Andrew Cedar, Charlie Puth, and Wiz Khalifa for "See You Again" Won [154]
Golden Globe Awards [[73rd Golden Globe Awards|Template:Dts]] Best Original Song Justin Franks, Andrew Cedar, Charlie Puth, and Wiz Khalifa for "See You Again" Nominated [155]
Golden Trailer Awards Template:Dts Best of Show "Family" (AV Squad) Won [156]
[157]
Best Action "Family" (AV Squad) Won
Best Music "Drop Teaser" (AV Squad) Nominated
GTA 16 & Rentrak Best Opening Weekend Award Furious 7 Won
Best Sound Editing "Drop Teaser" (AV Squad) Nominated
Best Action TV Spot "Fast" (AV Squad) Won
Best Music TV Spot "Fast" (AV Squad) Nominated
Grammy Awards [[58th Annual Grammy Awards|Template:Dts]] Best Song Written for Visual Media Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth for "See You Again" Nominated [158]
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards Template:Dts Best Song Written and/or Recorded Created for a Film DJ Frank E, Charlie Puth, Wiz Khalifa, and Andrew Cedar for "See You Again" Won [159]
[160]
Hollywood Film Awards [[19th Hollywood Film Awards|Template:Dts]] Hollywood Blockbuster Award Furious 7 Won [161]
Hollywood Song Award Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth for "See You Again" Won
Hollywood Music in Media Awards Template:Dts Best Original Song in a Feature Film Justin Franks, Andrew Cedar, Charlie Puth, and Wiz Khalifa for "See You Again" Won [162]
[163]
Houston Film Critics Society Awards [[Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2015|Template:Dts]] Best Original Song "See You Again" Nominated [164]
[165]
Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards Template:Dts Best Contemporary Make-Up in a Feature-Length Motion Picture James MacKinnon, Autumn Butler, and Roxy D'Alonzo Won [166]
Best Contemporary Hair Styling in a Feature-Length Motion Picture Linda D. Flowers, Jennifer Santiago, and Lisa Ann Wilson Nominated
MTV Movie Awards [[2016 MTV Movie Awards|Template:Dts]] Best Action Performance Vin Diesel Nominated [167]
Ensemble Cast Furious 7 Nominated
People's Choice Awards [[42nd People's Choice Awards|Template:Dts]] Favorite Movie Furious 7 Won [168]
Favorite Action Movie Furious 7 Won
Favorite Action Movie Actor Vin Diesel Nominated
Favorite Action Movie Actress Michelle Rodriguez Nominated
Premios Juventud [[2016 Premios Juventud|Template:Dts]] Favorite Movie Furious 7 Won [169]
Satellite Awards [[20th Satellite Awards|Template:Dts]] Best Original Song "See You Again" Nominated [170]
[171]
Saturn Awards [[42nd Saturn Awards|Template:Dts]] Best Action or Adventure Film Furious 7 Won [172]
[173]
Best Editing Christian Wagner, Dylan Highsmith, Kirk Morri, and Leigh Folsom Boyd Nominated
Best DVD or Blu-ray Special Edition Release Furious 7 (Extended Edition) Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards [[22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards|Template:Dts]] Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture Furious 7 Nominated [174]
Screen Nation Film and Television Awards Template:Dts Female Performance in Film Nathalie Emmanuel[lower-alpha 1] Won [175]
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards [[St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2015|Template:Dts]] Best Song "See You Again" Template:Runner-up [176]
[177]
Best Scene "Paul Walker farewell" Nominated
Teen Choice Awards [[2015 Teen Choice Awards|Template:Dts]] Choice Movie: Action Furious 7 Won [178]
Choice Movie Actor: Action Vin Diesel Nominated
Paul Walker Won
Choice Movie Actress: Action Michelle Rodriguez Nominated
Jordana Brewster Nominated
Choice Movie: Villain Jason Statham Nominated
Choice Movie: Chemistry Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Dwayne Johnson, and Ludacris Nominated
Choice Music: Song from a Movie or TV Show Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth for "See You Again" Won
Visual Effects Society Awards [[14th Visual Effects Society Awards|Template:Dts]] Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature Mike Wassel, Karen Murphy, Martin Hill, Kevin McIlwain, and Dan Sudick Nominated [179]

Sequel

Template:Further The Fate of the Furious (2017) serves as the start of a next trilogy of films that includes F9 (2021) and Fast X (2023).[180] An eleventh and final mainline film, Fast Forever (2028), is in production.[181]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Also for Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)


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