FURIOUSER AND FURIOUSER
One can only imagine how story meetings for movies go. Probably something like this:
“OK. We’ve done cars flying off roads, cliffs, trucks, in to and out of trains, planes, boats, helicopters, skyscrapers, submarines. What can we do this time?”
[Long silence]
“I’ve got it: magnets!”
“Magnets?”
“Yeah. They have some huge-ass magnet car that pulls other cars through the air and through buildings and stuff.”
“And then you turn it the other way and it flings them back out again!”
“Physics doesn’t work like that.”
“It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.”
“It’s perfect.”
Like a 1969 Yenko Camaro soaring off a Florida quay on to the luxury yacht of an Argentinian drug baron, the Fast & Furious franchise can be seen as one prolonged exercise in defying gravity. Its ascent has been difficult to believe but impossible to deny. It is the seventh most lucrative franchise in movie history. Now, with cinemas reopening at last, the long-delayed actionmovie franchise of our times. How did this happen?
