Fast and Furious 8
On the heels of 2015’s Furious 7, one of the fastest movies to reach $1 billion worldwide and the sixth-biggest global title in boxoffice history, comes the newest chapter in one of the most popular and enduring motion-picture serials of all time: The Fate of the Furious.
As evidenced by last December’s trailer debut of the film— which currently ranks as the biggest ever, with more than 139 million views in the 24 hours after its unveiling in Times Square—audiences’ appetite for tales from the Fast & Furious saga has never been bigger, and the franchise has never been more popular or more global. Although this group has experienced much on the road that has brought them here—as they shot cars out of planes, through skyscrapers and down mountains— the core idea that drives them has never wavered: family.
Now that Dom and Letty are married and Brian and Mia have retired from the game—and the rest of the crew has been exonerated—the globetrotting team has found a semblance of a normal life. But when a mysterious woman (Oscar® winner CHARLIZE THERON) seduces Dom into the world of crime he can’t seem to escape and a betrayal of those closest to him, they will face trials that will test them as never before.
From the shores of Cuba and the streets of New York City to the icy plains off the arctic Barents Sea, our elite force will crisscross the globe to stop an anarchist from unleashing chaos on the world’s stage… and to bring home the man who made them a family.
For The Fate of the Furious, the first chapter of Universal Pictures’ recordsmashing homegrown franchise’s final trilogy, VIN DIESEL as the newly rogue Dominic Toretto is joined by a returning all-star cast… as well as a star-studded array of newcomers to this world.
The players include DWAYNE JOHNSON as Hobbs, the DSS agent who must now rally his people to reboot Dom and prevent global annihilation; MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ as Letty, the streetwise second-incommand whose most personal The Fate of the Furious—Production Information 3 mission to date is to bring her husband back from the brink; TYRESE GIBSON as Roman, the fast-talking ladies man who’s never met a situation he can’t charm his way out of; CHRIS “LUDACRIS” BRIDGES as Tej, brilliant tech-tactician and automotive mechanic extraordinaire; JASON STATHAM as Deckard Shaw, a Black Ops assassin now sharing more in common with enemy Dom’s crew than he could have imagined from his super-max prison cell; KURT RUSSELL as Mr. Nobody, the square-jawed fed who operates quid pro quo and outside the law; NATHALIE EMMANUEL as Ramsey, a genius hacker whose invention is wanted by every government and terrorist cell on Earth; and ELSA PATAKY as Elena, a former Rio cop and current DSS agent who must make an impossible choice to save the ones she loves.
In addition to Theron as the enigmatic operative known only as Cipher, the world’s most notorious cyber-terrorist and current Dom romantic interest, the series welcomes SCOTT EASTWOOD as Eric Reisner, Mr. Nobody’s protégé, aka Little Nobody, and Oscar® winner HELEN MIRREN as a woman as mysterious as any Dom has met in his global missions
The Fate of the Furious is directed by F. GARY GRAY, the filmmaker behind such blockbusters as Straight Outta Compton—the No. 1 musical biopic in the history of cinema—The Italian Job, Be Cool and Friday, and produced by returning producers NEAL H. MORITZ, the godfather of the Fast & Furious series and force behind blockbusters from I Am Legend to the 21 Jump Street series, as well as longtime producer and second-unit director MICHAEL FOTTRELL (Furious 7, Fast Five) and Diesel. Written by series architect and fellow producer CHRIS MORGAN (Fast & Furious series, Wanted), the action-thriller is based on characters created by GARY SCOTT THOMPSON (The Fast and the Furious).
Gray assembles a top-flight creative team that is led by frequent collaborators in the Fast & Furious family, as well as new creative artists who join the seasoned crew. They include director of photography STEPHEN F. WINDON (Furious 7, Fast & Furious 6), production designer BILL BRZESKI (Furious 7, Iron Man 3), editors CHRISTIAN WAGNER (Furious 7, Fast Five) and PAUL RUBELL (Thor, Collateral), costume designer MARLENE STEWART (Oblivion, Tropic Thunder), picture car coordinator The Fate of the Furious—Production Information 4 DENNIS MCCARTHY (Furious 7, Fast & Furious 6), second unit director SPIRO RAZATOS (Furious 7, Fast & Furious 6) and composer BRIAN TYLER (Furious 7, Fast & Furious). Once again, AMANDA LEWIS (Fast & Furious series) and SAMANTHA VINCENT (Fast & Furious series) serve as executive producers.
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