Facts About The Fast And The Furious
Put on your racing gloves and fasten your seatbelt! We still have a couple years to wait before the ninth film in The Fast and the Furious series is released, but with eight films plus two film shorts, there’s plenty to keep us busy until 2020 when the next movie comes out.
40. Famous Friends
The franchise is the sixth-highest grossing series of all time, and the movies have collectively pulled in over 5 billion dollars. Not bad at all, considering it's behind franchise juggernauts like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Harry Potter series, Star Wars, and The Lord of the Rings. Uh, yeah.
39. Old Enough
As of 2017, The Fast and the Furious franchise is 16 years old: if it were a person, it would be old enough to drive.
38. Out Of Sequence
The eight films in The Fast and the Furious franchise fit together in a way that’s not quite straightforward: Fast & Furious (the fourth film), Fast Five, and Fast & Furious 6 were designed as an internal trilogy—these three films are prequels The Fast And the Furious: Tokyo Drift (the third film), while Furious 7 is a direct sequel to the third film.
37. Sprawling Franchise
TFatF has spawned eight films, plus two short films! The shorts were made to tie the timeline together: The Turbo-Charged Prelude comes before 2 Fast 2 Furious, while the short Los Bandoleros takes place between the third and fourth films.
Turbo Charged Prelude to 2 Fast 2 Furious, Universal Pictures