There are two mandatory elements required for a Fast & Furious movie (at least in the main film series). The first one is Vin Diesel drinking Corona and talking about the importance of family. The second, and without question the more important one, is cars… so, so many cars. Even with how increasingly ridiculous the Fast & Furious franchise has gotten over the years, it still revolves around its character getting behind the wheels of spruced-up cars and doing all kinds of crazy stunts. And yet, there’s one insane problem with filming such stunts that I’d never thought of while watching these movies.
Andy Gill, the stunt coordinator on the 2025 movie release Sinners, has also shot several stunt sequences for the Fast & Furious movies. While speaking with Deadline alongside Brian Machleit, who handled these kinds of sequences on One Battle After Another, Gill mentioned how with Fast & Furious, you have to be especially careful to make sure everything unfolds exactly as choreographed:
