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  • To celebrate the release of Furious 7, let’s take a look at 7 things you probably didn’t

  • know about the seventh movie in the nitrous-oxide-charged franchise.

  • The sequence in the movie that shows Dom and the Fast family drive out of a cargo plane

  • in mid-flight was a real practical stunt! The scene was filmed over three days in the

  • Arizona desert with a C-130 plane and two sets of five driverless cars, each of which

  • was dropped two or three times from the aircraft at heights of 10,000 to 12,000 feet.

  • Camera-mounted helicopters and skydiving camera operators were used to capture the action.

  • One of car co-ordinator Dennis McCarthy’s favourite vehicles in the movie is the off-road

  • version of Dom’s 1968 Dodge Charger, which McCarthy made from scratch with his crew.

  • It was also the most expensive car to build for Furious 7.

  • The real challenge with building that car was fitting all the custom components of an

  • off-road vehicle into the body of the Charger while still leaving room for Vin Diesel!

  • When Dennis McCarthy wanted a particularly unique car for Dom, he went looking in Las

  • Vegas at the annual SEMA car show. That’s where he found a 1968 Dodge Charger

  • calledMaximus”, which was a custom-fabricated build by Nelson Racing Engines and Scott Spock

  • Racing. The one-off, brushed metal ultra-car has a

  • 2000-horsepower engine and is valued at over $1 million.

  • Furious 7’s Abu Dhabi sequence features W MotorsLykan Hypersport, one of the world’s

  • fastest and most expensive cars at around $3.4 million.

  • The car features white gold, sapphires and diamonds, and was the most expensive car featured

  • in Furious 7. To keep costs down though, W Motors built

  • five replicas of the car for the movie, using the same molds as their original vehicle but

  • building the car out of fibreglass instead of carbon fibre.

  • Those five replicas were used for filming the movie’s stunts, while an original Lykan

  • was used for close-up beauty shots.

  • The luxurious penthouse apartment in Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Towers where the Fast family crash

  • a billionaire’s party was actually a set built north of Atlanta!

  • Filming took place over the course of a week and the set was made to withstand stunt drivers

  • speeding and drifting through it while other stunt performers, dressed as wealthy party-goers,

  • leapt out of the way! Several other sets including Hobbsoffice

  • and the cement factory were also built in the same location.

  • The Race Wars scene in Furious 7 was filmed in Lancaster about 70 miles north of downtown

  • LA. Letty’s Race Wars ride is a 1970 Plymouth

  • Barracuda, which we also saw in Fast & Furious 6.

  • There were hundreds of extras on location, including car club members and fans of the

  • franchise, and there were more than 300 cars. Temperatures during filming were over 100

  • degrees Fahrenheit in the shade.

  • Furious 7 screenwriter Chris Morgan used a system of colour-coded Post-It notes to keep

  • track of everything in the Fast & Furious world, including characters, cars, plot points,

  • and even Dom’s silver cross pendant! Furious 7 is the fifth Fast & Furious movie

  • written by Morgan. The first Fast film he wrote was Tokyo Drift.

  • Well there you have it, 7 things you probably didn't know about Furious 7!

  • Let me know in the comments below, whether you’d like to see more Fast & Furious movies

  • after this one, and what you’d like to see happen in them.

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To celebrate the release of Furious 7, let’s take a look at 7 things you probably didn’t

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