Fast X offers “a vertical quarter-mile ride,” says Louis Leterrier – Exclusive

In 2001, The fast and the furious it wasn’t about sending cars into space. It wasn’t about crashing cars into skyscrapers, or driving cars on frozen lakes, or cars being lifted up by magnetic planes. They were TV and DVD combos, and they were quarter-mile road races, with updated cars hurtling down deserted roads in the middle of the night. Since then, Dom Toretto’s full throttle ladder fast saga it allowed NOS to perform all sorts of gravity-defying stunts. And while x fast He’s got a lot of crazy bits up his (torn) sleeve, he’s back to those quarter horse racing too. Well, pretty much anyway.

“There are different ways to do quarter-mile races,” explains manager Louis Leterrier. Empire. “We’re going to do a quarter mile vertical run, which is very interesting…” Did you just say “a quarter mile vertical run”? Vertical, like at the top of a building? Or a cliff? Just when you think you’ve done it all, there are always new avenues to explore. But for the most part, expect a little more grounded stunts x fast compared to the space car-rocket madness of F9. “We landed on Earth,” laughs Leterrier. “What we did was go back to the original pitch. You have to have things that feel real.

As always, many vehicles suffered from the action. “Cuando ves un auto que cae de un avión y landing sober dos autos, bueno, tiramos un auto y luego aterrizó sur dos autos”, says the director, promising a great shooting in a central sequence in the demolition ball that is seen in the shadows the film. trailer. “A one-ton bullet interacting with a car cannot be replicated.” It’s going to be one hell of an epic episode of scrap metal challenge After.

Light EmpireIs full x fast interview with Louis Leterrier in the next June 2023 issue, on newsstands Thursday 13 April. become a Empire member now to access the full issue on the day of release, or pre-order the number online now here.