[UPDATE] Film director Justin Lin revealed on Twitter that three cars were destroyed during the four-second shoot with the Toyota 86 passing a building and crashing into a truck. Although the scene involves some CGI, it looks like most of it is real. It took eight months to prepare, four days of production and a team of more than 100 people to film the scene.
It was just over a year ago when Universal Pictures released a trailer for Fast 9, announcing the unexplained return of Han Lue (played by Sung Kang). Today, a new 30-second clip released during the Super Bowl LV confirms that the drift master is alive and well, apparently embracing Tokyo Drift protagonist Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) early in the video.
The highly praised blockbuster film presented during the Big Game also included a brief look at Toretto’s house being rebuilt after Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) destroyed it in the seventh episode of the franchise. We’re not sure, but Tokyo Drift’s Twinkie (Shad Moss aka Bow Wow) seems to be sitting at the dinner table with the rest of the team.
In addition to the return of some characters, the new trailer is the same old Fast and Furious. “Mayhem” seems to be the key word here, with a Toyota 86 reused as a weapon of destruction when impaling a truck after breaking a building’s windows. As Dominic Toretto says: “speed it up” for what is preparing to be another action-packed film in which we will see a Noble M600, a Dom loader and a lot of destroyed police cars.
If you are a fan of the long-running franchise, the wait should be almost over, as the clip ends with the following message: “in theaters soon”. As you may recall, Fast 9 was originally scheduled to come out last year on May 22 before being postponed to April 2021, only to be postponed again to May 28 this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. It is unclear whether the date has been changed, but the new location is a good indication that the film’s release date is approaching.